AMD shows big profit but Intel nibbles margins
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| Chip firm AMD showed a big jump in profits for its third
| quarter financial period, but its gross margins fell,
| while it also reported some manufacturing problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35205
Today: AMD FX 70, 72 and 74 specs tip up
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35207
Today: Quad AMD core to arrive Q3 2007
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35209
Today: AMD starts to EOL its chips
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35220
Of some interest:
Nvidia at work on combined CPU with graphic
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35216
Also see:
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion, because
| in a quiet private discussion they can continue to dismiss the
| requests and in the end do absolutely nothing. They do not
| want a noisy public discussion, because then they look bad.
| But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD, because they are being bad to
| those who bought their hardware!
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
Previously accused of stifling competition/innovation (e.g. 64-bit) as
means of strengthening the duopoly. Scare tactics anyone?
German anti-trust officials received complaint against Intel
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| The Financial Times claimed the FCO has in its possession a letter from
| a Saturn employee that implied Intel gave the retailer financial
| incentives not to stock AMD-based PCs.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/12/intel_german_fco_complaint/
Will there be an Open Source GPU/CPU, in line with Sun's GPL'd
designs?
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| Then I wondered whether AMD's acquisition might result in the
| opening up of ATI's graphics drivers, which are now
| distributed only in binary form...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/32OPcurve_1.html
What about Linux-targetted optimisation?
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| AMD apparently wants to set up a research group in Dresden
| not only to optimize Linux for its own processors,
| but also to integrate the requirements of the open
| operating system in the development process for
| future processor generations...
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/72169
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