Month: July 2006

The Inquirer reports that AMD fabs can and will make ATI GPUs. Well, they needed to do something with Fab 30! One little-known fact about Fab 30 was that when the various German governments agreed to subsidize its construction, AMD Read More

In the Core2Duo introduction yesterday, Intel said that it would put out a million of these chips in the next seven weeks, then tried to paint it as a great achievement. I’d like to say, “That’s nice,” except that’s not Read More

The average person reading this (or any other computer hardware forum) tends to be very allergic to money talk. They don’t terribly want to hear it; they often don’t find it relevant to what they’re interested in. The problem is Read More

After looking through a number of forums, the general question being most often asked about the AMD/ATI merger is, “What happens to nVidia?” We’ll try to answer some of questions falling into that general category in this article. If you’d Read More

Well, I guess this AMD-ATI talk wasn’t talk. 🙂 Understand that the problems with this deal are not technological, but financial. This is like emptying your bank account to make the down payment on a new car you’re buying after Read More

There’s been a lot of confusion as to when AMD plans to get 1) K8L processors out and 2) when quadcores will show up. AMD’s conference call a few days ago cleared much of this up. The first K8L processor Read More

Your stock price has dropped over 50% in the last four months, hitting a 52-week low, mostly because you’re going into a price war with the market leader, who is bringing in products for which the only answer you have Read More