The Core Truth
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AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
Lost in all of the (inaccurate) commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company’s product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to compete for “all screens” including [...]
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AMD's 45nm Shanghai gets official
AMD officially introduced its first 45nm processors today. Compared to its existing 65nm AMD Opterons, the new quad-core server processors code-named Shanghai, will offer better performance and use less power, and because they use the same socket and have the same thermal requirements, they will be available in more than 25 server systems by the [...]
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Intel's Core i7 gets put to the test
Intel won’t announce its new Core i7 chips until later this month, but the first real reviews are popping up all over the place today. Based on the early previews, I expected to see good numbers and Core i7, formerly known as Nehalem, delivers.
These first Core i7s are Bloomfield processors designed for high-end desktops. There [...] -
Samsung says it is no longer interested in SanDisk
Samsung has abruptly dropped its $5.8 billion bid for the memory card-maker SanDisk.
In a letter to SanDisk’s board, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee wrote that the recent quarterly results heightened concerns about SanDisk’s ability to weather a protracted downturn in the memory industry and the broader economy. In addition, SanDisk had just announced [...] -
Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284).
Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm process as current desktop and mobile chips, but it [...] -
AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created
AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD’s advanced processors. The new company–currently known as “The Foundry Company”–will take over all of AMD’s existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and will construct an additional fab [...]
