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Can You Say Price War? . . .

The Inquirer reports that AMD will cut prices on its single-core A64s dramatically, by a third or more for the mid-scale models. This also include AM2 chips. This isn’t just a rumor, some of these dramatically dropped prices have already

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Report From Computex

Computex is the second largest trade show in the world and as such features the majority of the world’s IT industry and their products. Since it would require an article far too large for this medium to showcase even a

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Blowing A Fuse . . .

This says it all: ATI and NVIDIA have been briefing power supply manufacturers in Taiwan recently about what to expect for next year’s R600 and G80 GPUs. Both GPUs will be introduced in late 2006 or early 2007. . .

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AMD In NYS? . . .

Spending Billions Is Fun, Let’s Do It Again AMD finally announced that it planned to refurbish Fab 30 about a week ago. Nothing bizarre about that, there’s numerous advantages to such a move. What is bizarre are some folks in

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A Quicker Conroe Coming . . .

Intel has said that they’ll have a 3.2GHz Conroe Extreme Edition out by the end of the year. Not that anybody reading this will (or ought to) buy one, but the emergence of one is probably good news for anyone

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AMD Tidbits . . .

Will AMD Buy ATI? No. Why? They have no money, and any money they do have is going to have to go into their next fab. It’s hard to beg for subsidies from German governments to redo fabs (see below)