Month: November 2007

Digitimes reports that AMD will cut the prices of its HD 3850 and 3870 by $20. Given that the price of the GPU is probably around $75-100, this is a substantial cut. nVidia may follow, indeed, prices on the 8800GT

Intel has revealed its Nehalem strategy. We’ve known for quite some time that desktop Nehalem was going to require a new socket. We didn’t know there was going to be two of them. There will be two sockets, an LGA1366

There’s a very valuable article showing Intel’s current intentions in 2008 here. (Update: The roadmaps appear to have originally come from PC Watch.) It tells you not only what Intel will put out, but gives you a price range on

Here’s the article suggesting that Apple should buy AMD. Here’s why there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of this happening. When Steven Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, it was going down the tubes, fast. The number of

So far, this week has not been kind to AMD. Between the less-than-phenomenal Phenom launch and the sale of 8% of the company to an Arab investment firm, the stock price dropped almost 15% between Monday and Wednesday. The stock

I know many of you are tired of me putting out, well, negative waves, about a certain company. Believe me, I’m tired of pointing it out, but given the new set of lemons in inventory, the Lemonade Patrol is going

Many people justify AMD’s existence by saying, “If they weren’t around, Intel would rack up the prices and innovation would slow to a crawl.” I came across this forum post, which gives such a different perspective to the conventional wisdom

The Inquirer reports that AMD will have to yank 2.4GHz Phenoms due to a CPU defect. They got an explanation from AMD which, unfortunately if not surprisingly, doesn’t make much sense. They said this was an errata which they would