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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

New From AMD: The Impresseron

isuppli_amd_intelIntel’s year of sequential gains in the semiconductor market came to an abrupt end in the first quarter of 2009. According to market research outfit iSuppli, the chip giant’s share of the market fell 2.5 percent to 79.1 percent in Q1. Meanwhile, AMD’s rose about 2.3 percent to 12.8 percent.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

April Chip Sales Less Awful Than Usual

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A bit of good news today amid the chip industry’s seemingly endless procession of bad. Sales of semiconductors rose 6.4 percent globally from March to April to $15.6 billion, according to the latest metrics from the Semiconductor Industry Association. But at $15.6 billion, they were still about 25 percent below the $20.9 billion reported last April.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

I Love the Smell of Schadenfreude in the Morning, Smells Like…

amdeuYou know things are bad at AMD when the company’s schadenfreude over Intel’s European legal woes spills over into its brand messaging. Surf over to AMD’s Web site this morning and you’ll find foremost on its homepage not a message about Fusion, its next-generation microprocessor design, or branding for its various chips, but a gigantic European Union flag.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

European Commission Overclocks Intel Antitrust Fine

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Intel to Change “Sponsors of Tomorrow” Slogan to “Sponsors of the European Union”

ec_intcOuch. European regulators slapped Intel with an antitrust fine and, as expected, it’s a large one–a record $1.45 billion, which dwarfs even the $1.2 billion fine levied against Microsoft in 2008. The largest ever assessed for monopoly abuse, the fine follows charges that Intel abused its market dominance by illegally inducing PC manufacturers to use its chips over those of rival AMD.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

AMD Gaining on Intel, and No, I’m Not Joking

amd_raiders-smjpgWell, look at that. Floundering though it is, AMD has managed some gains in the semiconductor market. According to IDC, the company’s share of the chip market hit 22.3 percent during the first quarter of 2009, an increase of 4.6 percent over the fourth quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, Intel’s share fell to 77.3 percent, a decline of 4.7 percent.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

EC to Intel: How About Some Chips With That Guacamole?

intel_guacamoleGateway officials once claimed that Intel “beat them into guacamole” in retaliation for doing business with rival AMD. Five years later, the European Commission is poised to give Intel a similar beating for doing so.

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

AMD Announces New Quad-Core Reorg

amd_raiders-smAfter three years, AMD is finally getting around to merging it’s microprocessor and graphics divisions, another stab at reaching profitability after more than two years of losses. On Wednesday afternoon the company said it would consolidate the two divisions into one–platforms and products–led by SVP Rick Bergman.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Intel Outside

intel_ad“Sponsors of Tomorrow” is the new “Intel Inside.” The chipmaker is gearing up to launch a massive new advertising campaign, and that slogan is to be its anchor. Its purpose: to make us all more familiar with the Intel brand–as if it wasn’t ubiquitous enough already.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

What’s Apple Building in There?

apple-ebookApple has fleshed out its chip design group with another key hire. The company has recruited Bob Drebin, former CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, as a senior director. Apple won’t say what it is exactly Drebin’s going to work on, though it’s a safe bet it’s related to the multicore graphics processors in which Drebin has his expertise.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

PC Sales Crashing Like an Unpatched Windows Machine

wile-e-coyote_thumbBillionaire Warren Buffett says the economy will be in a shambles throughout “2009–and, for that matter, probably well beyond.” The same can apparently be said for the PC market. Research outfit Gartner on Monday warned that PC sales will suffer the “sharpest unit decline in history” this year.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Econalypto: A Rightsizing Roundup

With IBM quietly contributing another 2,800 or so employees to the next Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment report, this seems like a fine time to pay respects to those who’ve gone before them. And there are many. In the past six months, thousands of workers have been right-sized and offboarded. Rebalanced and rationalized. “Smartsized.” Sacked. A quick scan of the carnage.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

The Mac: 25 Years After 1984

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AMD and the Q4 Temple of Doom

2008 hasn’t quite proven to be the “phenomenal transition year” AMD believed it would be. Despite new leadership and a restructuring of its manufacturing assets, the company was not able to return to profitability by the third quarter of 2008 as it had hoped. And now, AMD has reported a greater-than-expected net loss for the fourth quarter of 2008—its ninth consecutive one.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Announcing the AMD Divestituron

AMD may have written down its acquisition of ATI for the last time. On Tuesday, the company said it will sell the underperforming handset business it acquired with its 2006 purchase of ATI to Qualcomm for $65 million. The transaction follows the August 2008 sale of AMD’s digital television business–also acquired as part of its costly and troubled merger with ATI.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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alt.misc

  • 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons

    Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”

  • Web Site Story

    Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.

  • Wooden iPod

    An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case

  • Han Solo, P.I.

    Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.

  • The “literal video” collection

    Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.

  • E-Mail From Your Facilities Department

    In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.

  • Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt

    For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.

  • Nice Muscle!

    Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen

  • Respectful Yo Mama Jokes

    Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

  • Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer

    The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.

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