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AMD uses Intel's $1.25 billion to repay debt
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Last week's landmark settlement between Intel and AMD ended with Intel paying AMD $1.25 billion and signing a royalty-free x86 license. But what will AMD do with all that money…?
On 11/19/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (8) Read more
AMD's Radeon HD5970 Hemlock - Is Wickedly Fast
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE REVIEWS
Today AMD launched Hemlock known from this point forward as the HD5970. Now lets see if this new DX11 poison from AMD is able to kill off nVidia's lead in GPU performance.
On 11/17/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (18) Read more

AMD powers Top 3 Supercomputers, GPGPU system in Top 5
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
SC09 For 22nd year in a row, SC09 conference is taking place in Portland, Oregon. Prior to two major HPC conferences, a list of Top500 supercomputers is published with AMD taking the accolades.
On 11/16/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more
AMD CFO Seifert speaks out: We're making money!
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Thomas Seifert, AMD's new CFO [chief financial officer] gave a brief presentation at the Financial Analyst Day. His information was succinct, delivered with a positive, forward-looking attitude and plan.
On 11/12/2009 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (6) Read more

UPDATE #3: Intel capitulates, pays 1.25B USD to AMD
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
If you wondered by Bruce Sewell, Intel's legal chief departed to calmer waters at Apple, this might be the reason: Intel just settled the anti-trust suit and will pay AMD 1.25 billion US dollars.
On 11/12/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (8) Read more
AMD sub-1W Bobcat architecture targets ARM, Intel Atom
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 Back at the day, AMD's Tomcat and Twincat were supposed to create the netbook market. AMD's current leadership missed that one, but they're certain they won't repeat the same mistake twice.
On 11/11/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (1) Read more

CONFIRMED: AMD to use SSE5 "sooner than later"
HARDWARE NEWS
AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 We spoke with Chekib Akrout, Corporate VP at AMD to clarify one technology that wasn’t mentioned on any of the slides during today’s Financial Analyst Day.
On 11/11/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (1) Read more
Hector Jesus Ruiz resigns/ousted from GlobalFoundries
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
After Wall Street Journal broke the story that AMD's inside trader was no other than AMD's president and CEO, Hector Ruiz was forced into a Coup de Grace…

On 11/2/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (11) Read more

AMD's next-gen GPU "Manhattan" and "Northern Islands" use 32nm process?
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE RUMORS
AMD's next-generation GPU is taking shape. From the limited information we have, AMD is going to use 32nm process during 2010 and 2011 with Manhattan and Northern Islands.
On 11/2/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (3) Read more
OPINION: Are all AMD fans - idiots?
BLOGS, DEEP THROAT ANALYSIS
Starting today, we are introducing the Deep Throat section. In this section we are going to feature industry insiders who will publish their no holds barred opinions. Our first Deep Throat is only to be known as Scali.
On 10/30/2009 by Scali... Comments (134) Read more

AMD set to increase Radeon HD 5800 prices?
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
The first 30 days of sales are up, and if you were among lucky several thousand of people to buy the board for $379-389, count your blessings. AMD decided to jack up the prices...
On 10/27/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (9) Read more
First DirectX 11 benchmark released
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
With the release of Win 7 operating system, everybody wants to see want to see DirectX 11 in action. Russian Unigine Corporation captures the pole position here.
On 10/23/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (7) Read more

UPDATED: AMD reports another loss... and profit. Confused?
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
AMD's reported its 3Q 2009 results: the company reported revenue of $1.4 billion, but reported another net loss in the tune of 128 million USD. However, positive news ahead.
On 10/15/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Shortage: Apple empties AMD stock, buys all 4800 series cards
APPLE, GRAPHICS, BUSINESS NEWS
AMD's sales initiative yielded with good results after Apple bought complete two month stock of ATI 4800 series chips. AMD's AIB [Add-In Board] partners aren't happy at the moment, though.
On 10/14/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (7) Read more

PowerColor releases ATI Radeon 5700 cards, bundles DX11 game
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
Just as we previously announced, today is ATI Radeon HD 5700 series day. Unfortunately, due to sampling SNAFU [again], we won't be reviewing the card, but this is what you get...
On 10/12/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (3) Read more
ATI set to redefine the mainstream market next week
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Traditionally, mainstream market was defined as a price spot between 101 and 199 USD or Euro. AMD thinks that's too high…
On 10/8/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (6) Read more

UPDATED: Folding@home: ATI Radeon HD 5870 is as slow as 4870!
GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NEWS
The news that Radeon HD 5870 has the amount of shaders as an 4870X2 but inside the same ASIC, bundled with GPGPU optimizations gave us some hope. However, Brook+ objected.
On 10/6/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (11) Read more
The fastest ATI 5870 card achieves 3TFLOPS!
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
Last week, SmoothCreations introduced Radeon HD 5870 1GB XOC Havoc card. We spoke with the main engineer of the project and learned some interesting things.
On 9/29/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more

ATI Radeon HD 5870 comes with a free DirectX 11 game!
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
How to popularize new API? By giving away one of hottest titles for 2009 ‑ absolutely free!
On 9/23/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
ATI Radeon 5800 to be in short supply?
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
We learned that the initial batches of 5800 cards are very limited. We learned why and why Europeans got some very good news.
On 9/23/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more

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IP address change delay

Greetings,

The planned network provider change will not happen as planned, due to our site administrator ending in hospital as a consequence of his gliding accident. The wounds are not life-threatening but Mr. Ivica Hosko is still in the hospital, four days after the crash with transportation to Zagreb in two days time. We send our best wishes and hope for a speedy recovery. As soon as Mr. Hosko returns to his daily post, we'll announce the details of our network provider switch.

The following message is for Mr. Ivica himself:  "Ivica, you nut - gliding around a 2km/6600ft mountain with changeable winds in November?"

Thanks for understanding,

Ed-in-chief

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