AMD has started to ship its 1GHz Athlon processors and unveiled Compaq and Gateway as its first customers. Richard Baker, North European marketing manager of AMD, said being the first to break the 1GHz barrier - ahead of arch-rival Intel - is a...
Intel devotee Dell is rumoured to be on the verge of offering PCs based on AMD's Athlon processor. However, US news wires have claimed an analyst from Salomon Smith Barney said "Dell will use AMD as a second source to Intel," citing "serious supply...
According to sources familiar with AMD's plans, the chipmaker will introduce the Athlon XP 2400+ and the Athlon XP 2600+ for desktop PCs towards the end of the month and is also evaluating whether to increase the speed of the chip's front-side bus...
Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, a common method used to attack computers. The circuitry is already inside existing Athlon 64 chips, but it can't be activated yet.
The Opteron processor has vaulted rival AMD from the hinterlands of the server market to a more than 20 per cent share, with its superior performance and power consumption. But Intel and AMD are also focusing on the somewhat fuzzy performance-per...
Even Intel's mainstream E6700 and E6600 processors beat AMD's highest-performing chip, the Athlon FX-62, in several benchmarks. PC gamers, who have been solidly behind AMD's Athlon 64 processors almost since the day they were released, will have to...