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<title>AMD launches Opteron 6300 Seeries processor with Piledriver</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/05/new.processors.up.to.24.percent.more.efficient.than.predecessor/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/AMD-Earnings-Teaser.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[AMD has launched its new line of Opteron processors for servers. The Opteron 6300 Series have a claimed performance up to 24-percent higher than the Opteron 6200 processors that it replaces, and by using AMD's new Piledriver core, aims to lower the consumption of power, leading to cooler and cheaper servers....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Samsung's Apple-focused Austin plant poaches AMD server vets</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/02/samsung.may.swing.to.arm.server.tech/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/samsung-austin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Samsung's chip manufacturing plant in Austin has raised attention for hiring a significant number of long-time AMD staff who have focused primarily on servers.  Newly transitioned Opteron VP Pat Patla, but also VP and Chief Engineer Jim Mergard and Senior Fellow Brad Burgess, have all left in the past year.  The plant is already being run by Keith Hawkins (no direct link), who used to work at Sun....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD intros low-cost, eight-core Opteron 3200</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/20/amds.opteron.3200.web.server.chips.start.to.ship/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/amdopteronin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Chipmaker AMD has just detailed its new eight-core Opteron 3200-series CPUs, meant primarily for cloud and web hosting servers. Based on its current Bulldozer architecture, it can be had in four- or eight-core variants and is rated at 2.7GHz. A Turbo Core mode bumps the clock speed up to 3.7GHz, though only at half the active cores....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD said to have fluffed shot at Llano chips in MacBook Air</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/amda8-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A potentially major rumor has asserted that Apple was at one point investingating using AMD's Llano architecture mobile processors in the MacBook Air.  The company had the kind of power and performance Apple wanted, Forbes heard, but had trouble producing chips in time for the 2011 update.  As its former manufacturing wing and now partner GlobalFoundries was adapting to make the Fusion-based chips...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD 2012, 2013 roadmap shows tablet chips and more</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/02/amd.shares.future.chip.plans.focus.on.28nm.dies/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/amdin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Computer chipmaker AMD took the opportunity at its yearly Financial Analyst Day to show off upcoming products for 2012 and 2013. They include CPUs and APUs (combined CPU and graphics) for ultrathin notebooks, tablets, all-in-ones, desktops, and servers, with most focusing on lower power use. Some are also designed with the developing world in mind and accessing the cloud....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD releases 16-core Opteron 6200</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/14/amd.officially.releases.16.core.opteron.6200.cpus/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/amdopteronin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Chipmaker AMD has began shipping its Opteron 6200- and 4200-series processors, formerly known as Interlagos and Valencia, respectively. The former is advertised as having 16 cores, though they are based on Bulldozer architecture that include eight two-core modules. Meant for enterprise-grade servers, AMD promises 84 percent better performance and 72 percent more memory bandwidth....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Long-time AMD strategy VP Patrick Moorhead quits </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/04/leaves.after.11.years.driving.marketing.strategy/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/amd-fx-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[AMD's plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce is prompting some executive exits as well.  Among the first to go will be Patrick Moorhead, AMD's corporate VP for strategy, who confirmed he was leaving late Thursday. During his tenure, he led the companyís marketing efforts for its Athlon and Opteron PC and server chips....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/04/leaves.after.11.years.driving.marketing.strategy/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD takes share from Intel in PC processor market</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/02/intel.still.dominates.market/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/intel-i7-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Intel still dominates the PC microprocessor market, but its share has slipped slightly, according to results just published by IDC. For the second quarter of this year, which represents about $9.5 billion in sales, Intel garnished a 79.3 percent share of the overall market, down 1.5 percent, while AMD grabbed exactly as much as Intel lost to reach 20.4 percent. Processors with integrated graphics ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD chief forced out due to poor tablet showing</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/11/amd.ceo.meyer.pushed.out.due.to.tablets/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1101/amd-dirkmeyer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The sudden ouster of AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer was owed to poor competition against Apple and Intel in tablets, insiders said Tuesday.  Although the company didn't give a formal explanation, those aware said the board of directors forced him out as they were frustrated with a lack of growth in server-class hardware and the tablet field established by the iPad.  A presentation in November revealed that ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AMD details future Bulldozer, Bobcat processor cores</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/24/amd.bulldozer.to.match.sandy.bridge/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1008/amdopteronsix-core.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[AMD at the Hot Chips conference today provided insight into the details of its Bulldozer and Bobcat processor platforms.  Bulldozer is aimed at performance users and focuses on a new design with distinct but very modular processor cores.  As the cores are separate from shared resources, adding more cores takes up relatively little space and allows scalability; AMD promises that the first server-cl...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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