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We caught a glimpse of the HP xw9400 quite a while back when it was first announced, but it’s now available on HP’s site and we’ve got the full details on the mammoth’s innards. There are quite a few customizable options, including AMD’s Dual-Core Shanghai Opteron CPUs (from 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz), up to 32GB MHz [...]

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Intel’s new Core i7 chip has been showing up in tons of silly-spec’d high-end gaming rigs for about three days now, so it’s obviously time to get bored and move on — and right on cue, TechRadar’s got the first benchmarks we’ve seen of the upcoming dual-processor Nehalem EP platform. The secret test machine featured [...]

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Updated at 3:20 p.m. PST throughout with clarification of Yukon and Congo technologies
An AMD-based Netbook? Maybe, maybe not.
On Thursday at an analyst meeting, AMD disclosed “Yukon” and “Congo”–the names that AMD is giving to its silicon technology, due in 2009, that will target the “ultraportable” …
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Let bygones be bygones. That’s what Advanced Micro Devices is hoping for with the roll-out of its first 45-nanometer processor Thursday.
(AMD also announced its upcoming 45-nanometer “Phenom II X4″ desktop technology. See below.)
The No. 2 PC processor supplier will make the case that Shanghai is not Barcelona.
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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday plans to discuss its strategy for ultraportables, a market where the chipmaker is a self-professed laggard.
Whether AMD targets Netbooks specifically or a different design isn’t clear. But the company must contend with the fact that Netbooks have become a market sensation during the …
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Advanced Micro Devices’ new graphics chips are taking market share from Nvidia, a report issued Wednesday confirmed.
“AMD has by all accounts exceeded expectations with its Radeon HD 4000 series,” according to report issued by market researcher Jon Peddie Research (JPR).
Aggressive pricing by AMD’s ATI graphics unit made …
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Updated throughout at 2:30 p.m. PST.
A crush of warnings are descending on Intel, AMD, and the PC industry this week.
First up, Avian Securities. The brokerage company said that PC makers “are being very conservative with their build plans for Q4.”
Market researcher IDC is equally pessimistic. “…
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IBM is now offering 45-nanometer chipmaking “foundry” services based on its silicon-on-insulator technology.
Foundries have become a big business in the chip industry. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest foundry in the world, builds chips for Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. AMD announced in October that it was spinning …
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Updated at 9:00 p.m. with additional comments on Netbooks at bottom.
In case you missed it, Advanced Micro Devices is passing on Netbooks. At least as Intel and its partners have defined the category.

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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

After last year’s CES fiasco and the non-launch of a Snapdragon device in June, this is what it’s come to: the no really, manufacturers love our platform press release. According to Qualcomm, HTC, LG, ASUS, Samsung and other leading device manufacturers have created more than 30 device designs based on Snapdragon chipsets. [...]

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