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Computerworld

March 18, 2008

Exec says systems running quad-core chips will be rolled out by various vendors by mid-year

CNET News.com

February 7, 2008

Hewlett-Packard has committed to Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Opteron "Barcelona" processors in its Proliant DL585 servers

InformationWeek

January 16, 2008

A bunch of under-the-radar benchmark tests run by a respected tech guy, which puts AMD's quad-core Opteron (aka Barcelona) processor in a great light. Moreover, he gives AMD's new native-quad architecture a rave review.

InformationWeek

November 28, 2007

Eighteen months after first announcing its "accelerated computing" initiative aimed building out an ecosystem of third party-enabled products that compliment and enhance its own processor platform; AMD has about two dozen partners developing new products

EE Times

October 1, 2007

The "native" device, code-named Barcelona, is AMD's first quad-core microprocessor and was architected to migrate the K8 architecture into a product that would compete with, and outperform, Intel's new Core architecture

VNUNet

September 24, 2007

AMD has taken the wraps off its first quad-core processors, a week after Intel filled out its own quad-core server line-up. The nine new processors will be branded the Quad-Core AMD Opteron and is touted as the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor.

Newsweek

September 17, 2007

Its flagship product was delayed, and its fight with Intel continues. But for AMD's leader, it's all good.

eWEEK

September 10, 2007

CEO Hector Ruiz expects 'Barcelona' to strengthen Advanced Micro Devices' position against Intel.

Forbes

September 10, 2007

Server makers have eagerly anticipated the next-gen processors. One big selling point of the chips is that they use less energy. Lower power consumption can spell big savings for data centers that run multiple servers

The Inquirer

August 6, 2007

At this year’s AMD technology analyst day, corporate VP Randy Allen claimed that Barcelona changes the game in four areas. If Barcelona does change the game then AMD would be holding all the virtualization aces

eWEEK

July 20, 2007

AMD executives now say they are ready to begin shipping the company's much-anticipated quad-core Opteron processor, better known by its Barcelona code name, starting in August, with the chip finding its way into the hands of vendors by September

Wall Street & Technology

June 20, 2007

At this year's SIFMA Conference, the talk is of "performance per watt," rather than performance at any cost. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is pleased with the performance it is receiving from AMD. The PHLX is using AMD Opteron processor-based systems

Computer Business Review

June 13, 2007

Borsa Italiana IT director Alessandro Pelosi said the exchange migrated to AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant BL series BladeSystem servers in part because of the high performance and performance-per-wattage of the Opteron chips.

eWEEK

May 24, 2007

[AMD]…has partnered with the MedicAlert Foundation and Siemens to come up with a system that allows doctors and nurses to instantly know the entire medical history of a patient.

CNET News.com

May 21, 2007

AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing its performance to one of AMD's dual-core Opteron processors.

ZDNet Blogs

May 17, 2007

AMD has publicly claimed a 20% advantage over an Intel quad-core “Clovertown” server product “at the same frequency” for Integer performance.

InfoWorld

May 15, 2007

The upgrades to the [developer] center, which AMD said will continue, are aimed at helping software developers improve the speed and capabilities of software running on servers, laptops, and desktops armed with multicore microprocessors.

internetnews.com

May 15, 2007

AMD today said it has improved its test center for evaluating dual- and quad-core processors.

CRN

May 7, 2007

Advanced Micro Devices Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz shed light on AMD's channel plans during an interview with CRN at the company's Executive Forum in February.

Baseline Magazine

April 27, 2007

...The combination of virtualization and the AMD Opteron processors' low power requirements keep power and cooling costs down, and enable the company to achieve a smaller footprint with greater rack density.

Geek.com

April 24, 2007

Intel is leading the way--right behind AMD--in the areas of innovation and usable technology by system builders, system designers, and even in the areas of benefit for us, the end consumers.

ZDNet Blogs

April 12, 2007

...AMD boards are likely to perform closer to their potential in the hands of ordinary users than Intel boards because the defaults are pretty good and you don't need a lot of hardware expertise to tune them for specific uses.

The Register

April 4, 2007

AMD has started handing customers its fastest dual-core Opterons to date. Server makers and channel sellers have gained access to the 3GHz Model 2222 SE and Model 8222 SE chips, which will slot in just above the already shipping 2.8GHz processors.

eWEEK

April 2, 2007

Advanced Micro Devices is increasing its embedded offerings with the launch of a new chip set, which includes technology from ATI.

internetnews.com

April 2, 2007

AMD has added the final piece to its embedded lineup of products with the announcement today of the AMD M690 chipset.

CRN

February 21, 2007

Advanced Micro Devices Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz and Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Henri Richard shed light on AMD's channel plans, supply and financial issues, product road map and market strategy...

Computerworld

February 12, 2007

Marty Seyer, AMD’s senior vice president of commercial business, recently talked about where he believes AMD is situated with corporate customers.

IDG

February 12, 2007

Advanced Micro Devices has announced three new discrete media chips to respond to growing demand for advanced multimedia features in mobile phones.

InfoWorld

February 7, 2007

The first incarnation of AMD’s redesigned x86 CPU is Barcelona, that which your non-co-readers will call quad-core Opteron. Barcelona is genius, a genuinely new CPU that frees itself entirely of the millstone of the Pentium legacy.

Reuters

February 5, 2007

Computer processor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has made test chips using next-generation techniques and is on track to launch those products in the second quarter of 2008.

InfoWorld

January 31, 2007

[Tom Yager invites] "...colleagues in the media to run their AMD cover stories with Titanic metaphors now and get it out of their systems. As they say in my business, this whole Intel-eating-AMD’s lunch angle doesn’t have legs.

IT Week

January 29, 2007

AMD expects to power servers that are over 40 percent faster on floating-point operations than those based on Intel’s fastest comparable processor when it delivers its first quad-core processor this summer.

Reuters

January 28, 2007

Intel Corp. is set to capitalize on a new breakthrough in microchip technology more quickly than its rival AMD, but analysts say the advantage will only be temporary.

CNET News.com

January 26, 2007

Inside the data center in San Francisco's Letterman Digital Arts Center, Lucasfilms director of IT operations...stands in front of a rack of the company's state-of-the-art Verari servers, which use AMD Opteron dual-core/dual-processor technology.

eWEEK

January 24, 2007

[AMD] announced Jan. 24 that it's expanding the number of chips it will offer to designers in the high-end embedded market. The company will now include the Sempron 3500+ processor and the Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-52 processor.

Red Herring

December 25, 2006

[AMD] has been on a roll recently, with one research firm predicting its revenue will nearly double in 2006. That’s bad news for archrival Intel, which is expected to post a drop in revenue for the year.

TG Daily

December 15, 2006

AMD Opteron 2200/8200 Rev F series is selected as one of the top-10 most significant hardware of 2006.

eWEEK

December 14, 2006

At a meeting with Wall Street analysts here on Dec. 14, AMD executives said the company's core PC processor business would grow at twice the rate predicted for the industry in 2007.

San Jose Mercury News

December 7, 2006

The nation's biggest technology companies sat down with federal regulators Wednesday to assess the industry's thirst for power amid fears that volatile and expensive energy could hinder the growing sector.

InformationWeek

November 30, 2006

What will be the next big evolution in AMD's processor family won't be ready to ship until mid-2007, but the company hit a milestone by showing industry analysts and customers that it's moving along in its production cycle.

InformationWeek

November 14, 2006

"This [The AMD Stream Processor] is pretty darn clever," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst with Insight 64. "This gives users the ability to really dramatically increase the floating point processing capability of a standard X86 based server.

InformationWeek

November 14, 2006

AMD and its dual-core Opteron processor made huge strides on the Top500 Supercomputers list, jumping from just 55 entries a year ago to 113 today.

IT Jungle

November 14, 2006

This product [The AMD Stream Processor], which turns a GPU into a math co-processor with immense bandwidth and floating point processing capability, was one of the reasons why AMD was so keen on acquiring ATI in the first place.

EE Times

November 10, 2006

AMD chips were used in 113 supercomputers...up from just 11 percent a year ago ago. Intel CPUs took their biggest decline ever, slumping from a high of use in 333 systems or a year ago to 261 or 52 percent of systems on the current list.

IDG

November 7, 2006

Dell plans to launch a desktop for its business customers on Wednesday that is powered by an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processor, marking another step in AMD’s effort to diversify its gains in the server market.

Investor's Business Daily

October 26, 2006

The merged company creates a stronger rival to Intel and Nvidia in the field of high-end graphics chips, products that let computers show all kinds of fancy graphics, video and special effects.

eWEEK

October 25, 2006

With its purchase [of ATI], AMD is positioning itself to offer better chips for business computers as well as opening new markets to reach more consumers.

VNUNet

October 24, 2006

[Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64]...projects that AMD will once again claim the lead in the performance per Watt metric when it releases its quad core chips next year.

CNET News.com

October 23, 2006

Dell on Monday began selling its first servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, ending another chapter of Intel exclusivity.

Wall Street Journal

October 23, 2006

One reason for Dell to change its stance on chips is that rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co., International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have been successfully selling AMD-based machines.

San Francisco Chronicle

October 23, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices and Dell Inc. cemented their growing partnership Monday unveiling two new business computers that will feature the chipmaker's Opteron microprocessor in a machine produced by the Texas computer giant.

CRN

October 23, 2006

Michael Dell took the stage in San Francisco to formally unveil PowerEdge 6950 four-socket servers and PowerEdge SC1435 two-socket rack-optimized servers based on dual-core AMD Opteron processors.

IDG

October 23, 2006

Dell had been able to satisfy its customer by selling only Intel-powered machines, but when AMD's Opteron began to cut into Intel's market dominance, Dell's customers started asking for the Opteron alternative, too.

Red Herring

October 23, 2006

Hardware giants Dell and AMD temporarily stole the thunder from Oracle at the software company's annual conference in San Francisco on Monday, which could possibly mean bad news for chip maker Intel.

CNET News.com

October 10, 2006

AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona and due in mid-2007, includes features to speed up virtualization.

Computerworld

October 9, 2006

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in Austin intends to buy 13,000 quad-core processors from AMD to run on Sun Microsystems Inc. servers. The quad-core Opteron chips are due out by mid-2007, according to AMD.

eWEEK

October 5, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices announced that it has started a new partner program that will test and validate products made with the company's AMD64 technology.

TechWeb

October 3, 2006

Dual-core processors are barely out of the starting gate, and already Intel and AMD are racing to see who can be first to market with quad-core CPUs.

International Business Times

September 28, 2006

Semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on Thursday that they are teaming up with a China's second largest PC provider, providing processors to the company's whole line of offerings

Investor's Business Daily

September 28, 2006

Enter the Virtual IT Experience, a flashy Web site from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices that recreates the look and feel of a trade show in an online virtual world.

Electronic News

September 26, 2006

Wall Street watcher Lehman Brothers today weighed in with a preview of this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco

CNET News.com

September 22, 2006

Strategic changes and new products like the Opteron, however, have transformed AMD from a company too often known for gaffes and financial losses into a major supplier of processors

ZDNet Blogs

September 20, 2006

At the AMD Global Vision Conference today, Marty Seyer, senior vice president of the commercial business unit, touted the Torrenza Initiative

Fortune

September 20, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices has finally arrived. Long the also-ran of the microprocessor business, a perennial distant second to industry behemoth Intel, AMD is now a contender.

CNET News.com

September 20, 2006

Licensing Move Will Let Others Build Specialized Coprocessors That Will Plug Into Sockets Tailored To Opteron Or Athlon

TechTarget

September 20, 2006

Input/output (I/O) and performance bottlenecks are well-known server virtualization drawbacks and barriers to wider deployment of high-volume, high-performance applications on virtual machines

the Inquirer

September 16, 2006

Barcelona, Shanghai, Budapest and 65 nanometre

The Register

September 14, 2006

Over the past two years, AMD's flashy server chip has arguably affected the fortunes of five major technology companies in ways that extend far beyond market share and revenue swings

Austin Business Journal

September 12, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is tapping gaming technology to create a new form of marketing

SearchDataCenter.com

September 12, 2006

The head of commercial and enterprise marketing at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) gave the keynote address Monday morning at the Afcom conference in Orlando, and spent his time talking about power consumption in the data center.

eWEEK

September 12, 2006

Dell is about to take the wraps off of its first AMD-processor-based desktops

InformationWeek

September 12, 2006

The Online Trade Show Is Aimed At High-Level Tech Buyers Who Often Don't Attend Shows In Person

eWEEK

September 11, 2006

Despite the rapid rise of power and cooling costs in the data center, the technology industry—vendors and users alike—have fallen down on addressing the issues

CNET News.com

September 6, 2006

IBM has won a bid to build a supercomputer called Roadrunner that will include not just conventional Opteron chips but also the Cell processor used in the Sony Playstation

InformationWeek

September 6, 2006

The new systems were designed for improved security, mobility, and management

Network World

September 5, 2006

Buyers want boxes that consume less power

The Register

September 5, 2006

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will turn to both AMD's Opteron chip and IBM's Cell in an effort to breath new life into its supercomputing program

San Jose Mercury News

September 3, 2006

AMD Says Its Purchase Of ATI Gives It An Advantage In Combined Chips

InfoWorld

August 23, 2006

AMD’s got years worth of ammunition already locked and loaded. AMD’s road map is guided by IT’s needs and the capabilities of enterprise applications, rather than Intel’s provocations.

Wall Street Journal

August 15, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is introducing a new version of its Opteron chip, hoping to defend recent gains in server systems against a counterattack by Intel Corp.

CRN

August 15, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled the next version of its Opteron processor and said it has taken a significant step toward delivering a quad-core processor next year.

Red Herring

August 15, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices launched a fresh attack on the server processor market Tuesday by introducing a new line of Opteron processors and touting its upcoming quad-core chips.

The Globe and Mail

August 15, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will answer the latest technical leap made by Intel Corp. with the launch today of a new computer chip.

CNET News.com

August 14, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce its new "Rev F" generation of Opteron server processors Tuesday, the next volley in a competition with Intel's newly competitive Xeon models.

InformationWeek

July 31, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices has kept the momentum going for its Opteron processor, growing its share of the x86 server processor market to nearly 26% in the second quarter, according to Mercury Research.

International Business Times

July 27, 2006

Despite an onslaught of price cuts and new products from the competition, Advanced Micro Devices was able to gain market share against Intel in the second quarter of 2006.

CNET News.com

July 24, 2006

IBM and AMD are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor. It's a further boost to chipmaker AMD and a new blow to rival Intel's server business

The New York Times

July 12, 2006

Analysts expect Opteron-based servers to be an important way for Sun to pull itself out of its slump.

eWEEK

July 11, 2006

The bill calls for the EPA's Energy Star program to conduct the study and report back to Congress within 90 days. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif and Steve Kester, manager of government relations for AMD, said they are seeing wide support for the bill.

Los Angeles Times

July 2, 2006

Hector Ruiz's nimble firm has seized some of Intel's market share and technical laurels as well.

CNET News.com

June 29, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip soared up the latest ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, while Intel's Itanium continued to fall and IBM took top honors among vendors.

TheStreet.com

June 27, 2006

AMD has now graduated to the status of investor favorite, and Intel has replaced AMD as the company known for suffering from "poor execution" and "flawed product launches."

The Financial Times

June 23, 2006

Intel has traditionally held more than 80 per cent of the market, with AMD taking up virtually all of the rest. But AMD has been making inroads with higher performing chips, and Intel’s share fell to 74 per cent in the first quarter.

InformationWeek

June 21, 2006

With its SAP applications bogging down, CLP Power Hong Kong turned to HP servers with AMD's 64-bit chips to speed things up.

ZDNet News

June 19, 2006

Codenamed "Baker", the 24,000 socket, Opteron-based Linux system is due to be installed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Labratory in 2008.

The New York Times

June 19, 2006

In the notes for "All the Roadrunning", an album of duets by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, Mr. Knopfler offers thanks for a different kind of instrument: a computer chip, in particular the Opteron microprocessor made by Advanced Micro Devices.

The Hartford Courant

June 18, 2006

Electronic News

June 16, 2006

Phil Hester, senior VP and chief technology officer at AMD, sat down with Electronic News to discuss future market opportunities, strengths and weaknesses in AMD’s lineup and what’s changing inside the company.

Reuters

June 14, 2006

Dell Inc., the world's largest personal computer maker, is expected to offer a desktop PC using a microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in September.

Business Week

June 5, 2006

AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz is basking in a year of unprecedented profit and revenue growth at the world's second-largest chipmaker. AMD also has been gaining market share in key segments of the server chip business and at retail agaisnt its rival.

Red Herring

June 5, 2006

The chipmaker finally woos the PC giant.

Wall Street Journal

June 2, 2006

The effort would allow companies to make special-purpose chips that fit into the same sockets as AMD microprocessors.

CRN

June 2, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices promised a quad-core processor by mid-2007, as well as a new dual-core processor designed for mobile users and new platforms for the channel.

Forbes

June 2, 2006

Rackable gets 90% of the chips for its systems from AMD, which Barton touted for its ability to deliver high performance at reduced power thresholds.

San Jose Mercury News

June 2, 2006

Marty Seyer, head of server chips at AMD, said AMD now expects to take more than 30 percent of the market for server chips sold in 2006, up from the company's earlier forecast that it would take 20 percent.

CNET News.com

June 1, 2006

AMD on Thursday laid out plans to serve 30 percent of the market within the next two years, with new quad-core processor designs scheduled for 2007 and an acceleration of its manufacturing capabilities.

eWEEK

June 1, 2006

The chip maker will deliver two new chip architectures in 2007, changing the circuitry that underlies its server and desktop chips as well as its notebook and emerging market processors in order to better tune the chips for their respective markets.

ITP Technology

June 1, 2006

Within six months, processor vendor AMD is planning an assault on the enterprise desktop with a number of thin client-type products that Henri Richard, vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, AMD, says will establish the company as a desktop

MarketWatch

June 1, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's No. 2 provider of chips that power personal computers and servers, is ramping up factory output in an attempt to grab more market share from larger rival Intel Corp.

CRN

May 25, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices saw a healthy jump in server processor market share in the first quarter, according to numbers released by Gartner this week

The Economist

May 25, 2006

Can the world's biggest chipmaker reverse its foundering fortunes?

The New York Times

May 19, 2006

Dell said that by the end of the year, it would start using an A.M.D. Opteron chip in one of its high-end servers with multiple processors.

CNET News.com

May 18, 2006

Dell has agreed to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel.

San Jose Mercury News

May 17, 2006

Hoping to curb excitement about Intel's newest microprocessor chips, AMD fired back Tuesday as it described a new generation of chips coming in 2007 that will be its biggest computing advance since 2003.

the Inquirer

May 16, 2006

It's been three years since AMD launched the Opteron processor.

Wall Street Journal

May 11, 2006

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says some data centers can consume more power than a small town.

Business Week

May 3, 2006

The chip company takes its quarrel to billboards on both coasts. But it will take more than clever marketing to fend off Intel's counterattack

EE Times

May 3, 2006

Advanced Micro Devices is turning up the heat on rival Intel by turning down the power.

IDG

May 3, 2006

As Intel prepares to launch its Woodcrest chip for servers in June, rival Advanced Micro Devices has purchased billboard ads that claim its Opteron chip will reduce electricity costs in data centers.

ZDNet News

April 28, 2006

IBM's top server executive is warming to Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, eyeing the processor's business advantages and the successes Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have had with it.