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| Top Stories for January 25, 2002 (details below) | |
| San Jose Mercury News | Intel has secret weapon against AMD chips |
| EE Times | AMD to buy MIPS processor startup Alchemy |
| EE Times | AMD unveils new processor for laptop computers |
| Semiconductor Business News | AMD claims Athlon 4 now fastest notebook processor available |
| EBN | Intel regained ground from AMD, analyst says |
| Bangkok Post | Cool it! How to fight heat in an AMD Athlon system |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | Intel will can Itanic if boy Hammer does too well |
| The Register | Intel's Yamhill - Itanic on ice? |
| The Inquirer | Intel has free access to AMD X86-64 code |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of January 27, 2002 |
Older News |
| January 30, 2002 | |
Intel has secret weapon against AMD chipsBy Therese Poletti January 24, 2002 |
Tucked away in Hillsboro, Ore., a small team of Intel
engineers has been quietly working on a chip technology that
the giant semiconductor maker hopes will never see the light
of day. Intel's Yamhill Technology is a secret weapon against upcoming chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices. It's also a hedge against the possible failure of Intel's flashy new Itanium chips for computer servers, which have so far gotten a disappointing reception from customers and partners. |
AMD to buy MIPS processor startup AlchemyBy David Lammers January 29, 2002 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to acquire Alchemy
Semiconductor Inc. and pit that company's MIPS-based processor
architecture against Intel Corp.'s Xscale processors,
broadening an already fierce rivalry to the embedded front,
sources said. The acquisition will also position AMD against other MIPS licensees, including Integrated Device Technology Inc., NEC Corp., PMC-Sierra Inc., and Toshiba Corp. |
AMD unveils new processor for laptop computersJanuary 28, 2002 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the No. 2 maker of
microprocessors that are the brains of personal computers, on
Monday released its highest-performing chip for laptop
computers as the company seeks to gain share in that market. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said that its AMD Athlon 4 processor 1500+ is available as of Monday for $525 in lots of 1,000. Notebooks using the chip from No. 2 PC maker Compaq Computer Corp. will be available on Monday. |
AMD claims Athlon 4 now fastest notebook processor availableJanuary 28, 2002 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today claimed it was now offering
the fastest microprocessor for notebook PCs with the rollout
of its mobile Athlon 4 processor 1500+. The new processor is expected to be available soon in Presario 700 notebook systems from Compaq Computer Corp., according to AMD. The new processor's "1500+" designation indicates that the chip has the applications performance equal to a 1.5-GHz Pentium from rival Intel Corp. The Athlon 4 processor 1500+ actually has a core speed of 1.33 GHz. AMD introduced the new model numbering system last fall to help users gauge application speeds under its "True Performance Initiative." |
Intel regained ground from AMD, analyst saysBy Jack Robertson January 25, 2002 |
Intel Corp. ramped up low-end Celeron processor sales in the
fourth quarter to gain back some PC market share lost to AMD,
according to Dean McCarron, preisdent of Mercury Research,
Scottsdale, Ariz. Intel grabbed an 80.6% share of the PC market compared with AMD's 18.5% share, he said. If Intel processor sales for X-Box are included in the tally, Intel's market share was 81.2%, compared to 18% for AMD, he told EBN. |
Cool it! How to fight heat in an AMD Athlon systemBy Pee Kay January 30, 2002 |
I just bought a new PC specifically to play games and was
reminded me of something a good friend once said: the happiest
moment you will experience when buying a new PC is when you
sit down at the shop and watch the technician assemble your
machine. He insists that things only go downhill from this point on _ and I couldn't agree more. A month after bringing my new PC home, I still haven't solved all the problems. Since most of the prolonged problems are related to heat (due to my choice of an AMD Athlon CPU), it may be worthwhile if I share the resolutions here. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Intel will can Itanic if boy Hammer does too wellBy Mike Magee January 25, 2002 |
WE HAVE BELIEVED and have written for maybe two years that
Intel is tirelessly working on its own version of X86-64
technology just in case two awful things happen - sales of its
Itanic processor don't get any better, and sales of AMD's
Hammer/Clawhammer ramp up alarmingly. We locate it in Beaverton. See Intel steps up X86-64 skunkworks and Apology: Intel's X86-64 skunkworks. Now the Mercury News has picked up on this story and amplified Intel's plans. |
Intel's Yamhill - Itanic on ice?By Andrew Orlowski January 25, 2002 |
A fine scoop by the San Jose Mercury apparently confirms the
existence of Intel's 64bit Plan B, codenamed Yamhill. According the Merc, Yamhill adds 64bit instructions to the existing x86 architecture, and may appear in the Prescott chips, "with an option to turn the features on or off." The emphasis is on 'may', as according to the former Yamhill engineer, no decision has been taken to proceed with Plan B. |
Intel has free access to AMD X86-64 codeBy Mike Magee January 29, 2002 |
SOURCES AT AMD confirmed what we earlier believed, and that is
there is no obstacle to Intel using the Hammer X86-64
instruction set if the chip giant wants to pursue a backup
plan. Sources close to AMD said that Transmeta "licensing" the instruction set, which it did last May, meant no more than it had decided to work with the instruction set and there were no real conditions or limitations on use for X86-64 code. |
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