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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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The art of sale is driven by people, not the products themselves. AMD lacked a charismatic sales leader since Henri Richard left the company in 2006, followed by several execs.
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As we had reported two weeks ago, one of our good friends in the industry, Godfrey Cheng, has joined Rick Bergman at Synaptics.
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ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
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Over the last couple of months, we've been following the flow of heads leaving AMD. Biggest surprise were departures of Jim Mergard, Brad Burgess, Frank Helms, Carrel Killebrew and others…
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What was rumored turned out to be true, former AMD CTO of Graphics decided to exchange the Marine-layer clad Silicon Valley for Sunny San Diego, joining Qualcomm as VP of Engineering.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE, HARDWARE
ANALYSIS
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We already covered the financial side of the release right after the announcement was made and will now dive deeper into what AMD told to investors and how the company plans to evolve in the future.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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At the AMD Fusion Developer Summit 11 - short AFDS or FUSION11 (depending on which PR team you ask) - in Bellevue, Washington AMD didn't hesitate to highlight the advantages of their Fusion technology.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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This week has clearly been rough for AMD. A lot of people were speculating back and forth when the much-awaited desktop-version of the Bulldozer architecture would launch.
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Late last week, AMD officials got back to us and cited that remarks made by Rick Bergman were true and that the Bulldozer is not delayed. Day zero of Computex Taipei painted a different story...
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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In the recent days, numerous motherboard makers from Taiwan started to leak information about motherboards with the upcoming AMD 9-series chipsets which are meant to complement upcoming AMD FX CPUs.
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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In a surprising turn of events, Dirk Meyer resigned from his post as the President and CEO of AMD, leaving Thomas Seifert [CFO] to take over the role as an interim CEO.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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On CES 2011, AMD is going to introduce the Brazos platform alongside with Zacate processor. However, AMD is also preparing new software that should enhance their offering.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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When the midnight stroke in New York, NY - AMD released a press release stating that the company employed Donald Newell as the new VP and Chief Technology Officer [CTO].
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 During recent AMD event in Sunnyvale, California the company presented a new look - new executives, new approach, new logo, new technology.
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BUSINESS
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After reading a story on ATI-Forum, we wondered could there be any truth to the alleged claim that 40nm yields are still screwed up. We asked our sources and...
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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With ATI demonstrating DirectX 11 hardware earlier today on Computex Taipei 2009, time to draw an interesting comparison revealing who can make money off DX11: the die size.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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Hot on the heels of GlobalFoundries announcing its structure, AMD announced a completely new operating model, focusing on swift business units.
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