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MetaRAM Inc., a semiconductor company that boasted some high-profile executives and investors, is shutting down, VentureWire reported.

Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday.

July 6, 2009, 08:18 PM - - Despite Advanced Micro Devices' historical stance that it has no interest in the netbook space, PC makers continue to build the chip maker's processors into low-cost PCs.

"I suspect we will find uses of our cash in the form of product investment instead of capital investment," said Dirk Meyer in an interview with the Wall Street Journal .

Often, the cooler an electronic gadget runs, the hotter it sells. Devices that are coolest use less energy.

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Arcade system manufacturers will appreciate the long term support and lower cost of placing the GPU chip directly on the motherboard instead of a separate add-in graphics card.

AMD Opteron processor highlights from the latest Top500 Supercomputer Sites list include: For the third straight time, the AMD Opteron processor helps power the number one "Roadrunner" supercomputer; The Cray "Jaguar" supercomputer based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors at Oak Ridge National Labs is number two; AMD is utilized in nine of the top ...

Move over, Intel . Step aside, Advanced Micro Devices . Marvell wants to carve out a niche within the PC space.

Impatient to see benchmark results comparing the performance of Intel's quad-core Xeon 5500 processors to Advanced Micro Devices' six-core Opteron 2400s on supercomputing workloads - and perfectly happy to sell either kind of box to its customers - cluster maker Advanced Clustering Technologies has put the High Performance Linpack benchmark through ...

Advanced Micro Devices has quietly released a low-voltage chip that has made its way into a new netbook from Acer, forcing the chip designer into the netbook space.

The latest Intel and AMD microarchitectures fall short of promised performance gains, Facebook's operations chief says The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don't deliver the promised gains in performance, according to the head of technical operations at Facebook, a massive consumer of servers.

I met with Margaret Lewis, she is director of commercial solutions and software at Advanced Micro Devices.

A man from Advanced Micro Devices has praised the iPhone 3G S to the heavens and Apple for being upfront about battery life.

The massive parallel processing power and double-precision floating point support on the AMD FireStreama 9250 compute accelerator make it well suited for the most demanding compute applications.

At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today announced that AMD Opteron processors continue to power many of the highest-performing supercomputers in the world, including the top two overall.

AMD to Roll-Out Mobile 'Vision' Platforms - Rumours. AMD's 'Vision' Platforms to Replace 'Better by Design' [06/23/2009 02:52 PM] by Anton Shilov Advanced Micro Devices reportedly plans to scrap its "better by design" program later this year when it unveils its next-generation code-named Tigris mobile platform.

The chips are intended for 2-way servers, but customers may install them into high-end dual socket workstations compatible with with socket F central processing units.

An Iranian research institute claims that it used AMD Opteron microprocessors to build a high-performance computing system, one more sign that the U.S. trade embargo on Iran isn't hindering that country's ability to import high-tech equipment.

Therea s a discussion taking place in the PC industry thata s equal parts encouraging and sad.