Month: January 2006

A few places are reporting that Intel is going to come out with a cheap dual core, cheap as in sub-$200. You can read about it here and here. It is a 2.66GHz chip with a 133MHz bus, 2X1MB core. Read More

The Inquirer is reporting a three month delay in socket M2 systems showing up. Hmmmm, so instead of AMD getting its new platform out three months ahead of Intel’s “Back To The Future” Conroe/Merom systems, they’ll come out about the Read More

The Inquirer has cadged Mercury Research’s marketshare results from the last quarter. The numbers were quite good: 21.4% of x86 production, but what is interesting about these numbers is that they indirectly seem to indicate AMD’s current capacity. In the Read More

Recently, there’s been two reviews of the new 65nm processors from Intel, both dual and single core. The reviews were quite different, and done under different circumstances. Nonetheless, they had one thing in common: the same weather forecasts: in the Read More

AMD has just made a very interesting corporate announcement. Hector Ruiz is giving up the presidency/chief operating officer of AMD to Dirk Meyer. He will continue to be CEO and chairman of the board. Why? To quote, to give “Hector Read More