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AMD: company split does not violate Intel patents

One day after Intel voiced concerns over patent violations, AMD has made an announcement on Thursday hoping to put them to rest. AMD previously said it will split its operations and enter into a joint manufacturing venture, prompting the worries from Intel. Intel said it would review its processor licensing agreement with AMD, though AMD maintains there is no need, as the new deal will not violate any agreements between the two. The two chipmakers currently have a deal in place that has AMD pay Intel royalties in exchange for use of its x86 chip instruction set.

AMD 45-nm CPUs to use new naming scheme?

With AMD's flagship 2.6GHz Phenom CPU using the 9950 designation, obviously AMD is running out of model numbers for their upcoming 45-nm Deneb CPUs, set to launch in Q4'08. According to Chinese site Expreview AMD plans to move to five digits for their upcoming 45-nm CPUs, starting with the 3.0GHz Phenom X4 20550 and 2.8GHz 20350 later this year. Both of these chips will rely on AMD's existing Socket AM2+ infrastructure with DDR2-1066 memory support.

AMD Says Manufacturing Deal Does Not Violate Intel Processor Patents

The day after AMD announced a significant deal that will spin off its manufacturing facilities into a new joint venture company, AMD is defending its licensing agreement with Intel. In the wake of the deal, Intel said it would review its processor licensing agreement with AMD to ensure the deal does not violate any patent agreements. An AMD spokesman said the deal does not impact the chip licensing agreement with Intel.

Leaked AMD roadmap lists Jan 8th release date for 45-nm Deneb Phenom

For months now AMD has insisted that their 45-nm manufacturing process is on track and that we'd see the first 45-nm Phenom CPUs based on AMD's "Deneb" core by the end of this year. However this leaked AMD roadmap on chw.net suggests that Deneb has been pushed back to January 8th 2009, with AMD providing two SKUs at launch, a 3.0GHz part and a 2.8GHz chip, both with 125W TDPs.

iseemedia Collaborates with AMD to Enhance Digital Camera Solutions for Mobile Phone Market

TORONTO, Sept. 30 /CNW/ - iseemedia Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:IEE), a leading provider of rich content creation and delivery solutions for web and wireless markets, announced today that it is collaborating with AMD (NYSE: AMD) to bring its award-winning panorama creation and other image enhancement technologies to mobile camera phones. Through this effort, iseemedia's iseephoto(TM) panorama creation technology that is embedded in most of Kodak's digital cameras is now offered on AMD Imageon(TM) M180 media processor designed for mobile phones and other handheld devices. Work is ongoing to integrate this technology with AMD Imageon application processors as well.

AMD: Shanghai in production, slated for Q4

AMD's first 45-nm Shanghai CPUs for servers are on track for a Q4'2008 introduction. News.com spoke with AMD's GM of the server/workstation business, Pat Patla. Patla states that Shaghai is in "full production right now in the factory", and will run 20% faster than Barcelona clock-for-clock due to IPC improvements AMD has integrated into the processor.

AMD Fusion Details Leaked

negRo_slim writes "AMD has pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition of ATI. Since then, AMD's finances have changed colors and are now deep in the red, the top management has changed, and Fusion still isn't anything AMD wants to discuss in detail. But there are always 'industry sources' and these sources have told us that Fusion is likely to be introduced as a half-node chip."

AMD spins off manufacturing

NEW YORK -- October 7, 2008 --AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi today announced the creation of a U.S.-headquartered, leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company to address growing demand for independent, leading-edge foundry production capabilities. The new global company, to be temporarily called “The Foundry Company”, will serve this need by combining advanced process technology, industry-leading manufacturing facilities and aggressive plans to expand its global capacity footprint. At the same time, the Mubadala Development Company will increase its current investment in AMD to 19.3 percent on a fully diluted basis.

CORRECTED: AMD "Fusion" ads focus on graphics, user experience

CORRECTED: AMD "Fusion" ads focus on graphics, user experience AMD's new "Fusion" ad is seen in an undated handout image. REUTERS/AMD/Handout

Intel Says AMD Split Violates License Agreement

AMD and Intel are rivals in the marketplace when it comes to x86 compatible CPUs and graphics processors. AMD and Intel have a cross-license agreement in place that allow AMD to use Intel IP to build x86 compatible processors.

Intel questions AMD spinoff plan

As many of you probably know, AMD and Intel share a broad cross license agreement that covers tech such as AMD's 64-bit instruction set, Intel's MMX and SSE, and most importantly, Intel's x86 license, which allows AMD to produce x86 compatible CPUs such as Athlon and Phenom.

Intel worried patents hurt by AMD split...

Intel today said it was concerned its patents might be at risk as a result of AMD's manufacturing split. The former company licenses its x86 chip architecture and other key technologies to AMD and has "serious questions" about whether those licenses will be honored if AMD's division into design and manufacturing companies is approved, according to Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy.

Asset smart? AMD spins off manufacturing

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel’s smaller rival.

AMD's OverDrive and CrossFire Come To Linux

twljagflba writes "Since last year AMD has made ATI increasingly Linux friendly by releasing 3D programming guides and helping out the open-source community. At the same time they have been continuing to develop their binary Catalyst driver for the Linux platform and most recently they delivered same-day support for their new graphics cards. Today though they have released the Catalyst 8.8 Linux driver that adds two very important features: CrossFire and OverDrive support for Linux. Linux users are now able to use CrossFire to split the rendering workload between multiple GPUs and they're also able to overclock their graphics cards now using the binary-only driver. Phoronix has a complete run-down on both features — including benchmarks — in their AMD OverDrive on Linux and ATI Radeon CrossFire On Linux articles.

Lehman Bros was critical to AMD

Mired with billions in debt as a result of their 2006 purchase of ATI, investment firm Lehman Brothers played a crucial role in AMD's survival last summer. This article from the AP discusses the impact of the financial crisis and how it could affect AMD going forward:

AMD and World Cyber Games Announce AMD 2008 Challenge Black Online Tournament

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First AMD-based "netbook"?

AMD has been taking a "wait-and-see" attitude to the netbook market, but its Turion 64 X2 processor has reportedly made it into one anyhow. Raon Digital announced the Everun Note, which also includes a seven-inch display, 1GB of RAM, and a 60GB hard drive.

AMD vs. Intel: The Challenger's New Plan

Struggling AMD may look to unload its chipmaking facilities to a partner to concentrate on battling the industry's giant

AMD, Blizzard sign agreement

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has signed a distribution deal with international game creator Blizzard Entertainment, to bundle certain games with all ATI Radeon graphics cards.

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 On Linux

While details on AMD's high-end ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card began surfacing last month, today this dual-GPU graphics card has formally launched and will begin shipping to retailers. The good news this time around is that this graphics card will actually be something worth looking at under Linux now that there's the needed CrossFire support on the horizon. We're not yet permitted to publish the Linux CrossFire benchmarks, but today we have a few pieces of information to share about the Radeon HD 4870 X2 on Linux.

AMD Caught in Blizzard

Blizzard Entertainment and chipmaker AMD have teamed up for a new hardware/software bundling deal, the companies announced Tuesday.

AMD offers Linux drivers for new Radeon HD 4870 X2

Despite an often tenuous relationship with the Linux community regarding the driver quality for its graphics products, the AMD-owned ATI will offer release parity with Windows for its latest Radeon HD 4870 X2 card.

AMD offers Linux drivers for new Radeon HD 4870 X2

Despite an often tenuous relationship with the Linux community regarding the driver quality for its graphics products, the AMD-owned ATI will offer release parity with Windows for its latest Radeon HD 4870 X2 card.

AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer

An anonymous reader writes "According to a research report out of UCLA, released this morning, NVidia's high-lead bump packaging could last anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th as long as AMD's advanced eutectic bump approach. (TG Daily has picked up the claim.) NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs, and the report suggests that the issue could be much deeper than NVidia's PR department would have us believe." The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian, which we discussed a month back.

AMD CrossFire Contest PC: Components and Performance

With the recent GPU launches from ATI and NVIDIA that occurred earlier this month, I haven’t had time to build and properly test the CrossFire rig that we gave away during our AMD CrossFire contest at the end of August…Until now.

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