More competition for Intel, as AMD signals deepening push into data centre market with $35 billion purchase of US-based Xilinx
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Coronavirus: Chip Makers Ask To Be Classified As Essential Businesses
Group representing major US chip makers ask US federal authorities to be classified as essential businesses, so factories can remain open
VMworld: AMD Introduces Radeon Pro V340 For High-Density Data Centres
The graphics board includes two Vega graphics chips along with enough memory to carry out heavy-duty remote workloads for up to 32 concurrent virtual users
Operating Systems Hit By Major Security Flaw
Windows, macOS, Linux, VMware, Xen, KVM and others are affected by issues caused by their misinterpretation of chip documentation
AMD And Microsoft Release Spectre Fixes
The latest patches include operating system and processor microcode updates to protect users from Spectre Variant 2
Start-Up Warns Of AMD Chip Flaws In Unusual Publicity Campaign
A small security firm has warned of embarrassing flaws affecting AMD chips, giving the chipmaker only 24 hours to respond
Microsoft Warns Meltdown & Spectre Chip Fixes Will Slow PCs
‘Significant’ impact on some PCs and servers if the fixes to Meltdown, Spectre are applied, warns Redmond
Meltdown & Spectre: Apple Confirms All Macs & iPhones Are Vulnerable To Chip Bug
Apple releases mitigations for Mac, iPhone and iPad and says a Safari fix is incoming as Meltdown and Spectre continue to plague technology industry
Meltdown & Spectre: Intel Chip Exploit Also Impacts ARM, AMD Chips
‘Not just us’ says Intel, as ARM and AMD are also said to be vulnerable to one of the flaws
How AMD Wants To Provide ‘Supercomputing For All’
AMD and partners announce availability of new systems powered by high-end CPUs and GPUs to accelerate the use of supercomputing in smaller data centers
AMD Aims For Commercial Comeback With Ryzen Pro CPU Launch
ANALYSIS: Dell, Lenovo and HP partnerships will help AMD bring competition back into the processor market
AMD Ryzen Pro CPUs To Challenge Intel In The Enterprise Arena
Performance, security and machine learning optimisation can all be found in AMD’s latest processors
AMD Instinct GPUs Target Machine Learning In Data Centres And HPC Servers
A trio of AMD graphics cards aim to accelerate AI and smart algorithm training
AMD Epyc Server Chips Take The Data Centre Fight To Intel Xeon
32 core processors, 2TB of memory support and 128 lanes of PCIe are on offer with the Eypc chips
Tech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale Supercomputer
Large chunk of money handed to tech firms from US government to develop 1,000 petaflop supercomputer
Intel Reveals 18 Core Core i9 Processor And Core X 8th Generation CPUs
The chipmaker is touting is first teraflop desktop processor
AMD Signals Data Centre Return With EPYC Chips
What’s in a name? AMD raids the naming repository for Ryzen Threadripper, EPYC, and Vega chips
AMD Takes Aim At Intel In The Data Centre With Naples Chipset
The server chips offer a rack load of memory and PCIe lane support
IBM, Huawei, AMD, ARM And Qualcomm Unite On Data Centres
Xilinx, Mellanox also join CCIX Consortium to give data centre CPUs an open sharing architecture to boost speed and efficiency
Three Big Themes From The Heart And Head Of The Silicon Industry
AMD’s Darren Grasby lays out his view on the year ahead
AMD Launches 64-Bit ARM Chip For Data Centres
Opteron A1100 SoC series is a “key milestone” for establishing ARM in the data centre, says AMD
Samsung Set To Make Chips For AMD
Manufacturing heavyweights to team up on new hardware from next year, report claims
AMD Suffers Major Revenue Fall As PC Market Struggles
Revenues down 35 percent as laptop and PC sales hit, but games console arm provides some reward
AMD Denies It Is Splitting Up
Spinning off part of chip business could help it take on rivals such as Intel, but AMD says no plans at the moment.
IT Life: Do You Want Chips With That?
AMD’s EMEA head Darren Grasby talks about his career in IT, excitement for VR and why he’s firmly on the fence about cloud
PayPal Deploys Applied Micro’s ARM Servers In Data Centres
Applied Micro Circuits’ X-Gene SoC passes PayPal performance benchmarks
AMD Suffers £120 Million Loss, Dumps SeaMicro Server Business
AMD blames “challenging PC environment”, with revenues down 26 percent year-over-year
Samsung Rumored To Be Eyeing AMD Acquisition
World’s second-largest chipmaker could be a target as Samsung looks to expand hardware division
AMD Loss Widens As Restructuring Bites
AMD continues to feel the pain as it seeks to restructure its operations in a tough PC market
AMD Loses 3 Execs, Including Head Of PC Chips
World’s number-two chip maker says its chief market and chief strategy officers are leaving in the latest shakeup