AMD Closes Private Offering Of 7.75% Senior Notes Due In 2012

Oct 30 2004 @ 08:33AM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 29, 2004 --Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has closed a private offering of $600 million of 7.75 percent Senior Notes due in 2012. AMD intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, approximately $587 million, together with existing cash, to prepay the full amount owed by AMD?s indirect wholly-owned German subsidiary, AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, under its existing term loan.

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AMD Launches Global Strategy With Partners To Provide Internet Connectivity And Computing Power To 50 Percent Of World?s Population By 2015

Oct 30 2004 @ 08:31AM by MikeC

Mumbai, India -- October 28, 2004 --To foster the rapid adoption of technology in high-growth markets throughout the world, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today formally unveiled a business strategy with initial participants in India, Mexico and the Caribbean to enable 50 percent of the world?s population with Internet connectivity and computing capabilities by 2015. As part of its 50x15 strategy, AMD is announcing the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), an innovative consumer device that enables affordable, managed Internet connectivity and offers Microsoft® Windows®-based computing capabilities to help fulfill the communication, education and entertainment needs of people in high-growth markets.

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Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited And AMD Launch The Personal Internet Communicator

Oct 30 2004 @ 05:07AM by MikeC

Mumbai, India -- October 28, 2004 --VSNL, India?s largest telecommunications service provider, a member of TATA group of companies and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), a high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use, consumer device that will help provide managed Internet access to first time technology users. The PIC will be offered as part of the TATA Indicom Broadband Services.

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AMD Targets Emerging Markets with New PC Platform

Oct 26 2004 @ 07:12AM by MikeC

Looking for a low cost computer? AMD might have the solution for you with a computer that packs PDA specs in a PC form factor.

The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) initiative proposed by AMD and code-named Emma is based on AMD Geode GX500 366MHz processor that consumes about 1W of power, equipped with 128MB of memory, 10GB HDD, 4xUSB, 56K Modem and integrated audio, according to AMDBoard.com web-site. The machine runs a special version of Microsoft Windows CE with XP extender for Windows XP applications compatibility and is also bundled with Internet Explorer, Messenger, Spreadsheet and some other software. AMD wants such computers to sell for $185 with keyboard, but with no display, or, with keyboard and display, for $249."

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Computer Shopper Selects AMD Athlon? 64 Processor As 2004 ?Product Of The Year?

Oct 26 2004 @ 07:11AM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 26, 2004 --AMD announced today that the AMD Athlon? 64 processor received ?Product of the Year? honors in Computer Shopper magazine?s list of ?The Best in Tech 2004.? Computer Shopper placed the AMD Athlon 64 processor atop its annual roundup of outstanding technology products in the magazine?s November issue which is currently available online and on newsstands. Computer Shopper?s annual list of the top 100 products of the year showcases the best desktops, notebooks, hardware and software as well as the most useful Web services.

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Epox Socket A Sempron

Oct 26 2004 @ 07:10AM by MikeC

Still waiting before you upgrade to an A64 computer? Well you might be able to hold out a little longer with Epoxs' new motherboard.

Epox has a board called EP-8RDA6+Pro and it will support Socket A CPUs Athlon XPs, Durons and Semprons. You can plug three DIMM modules; will get one AGP, six PCI slots, two IDE connectors with RAID. As for other features they will give you eight USBs, two + four S-ATA connectors, Lan, Firewire and Audio with SPDIF and optical out.

The Inquirer

 

AMD Announces Pricing of Private Offering of 7.75% Senior Notes due 2012

Oct 22 2004 @ 06:28PM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 22, 2004 --Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has agreed to sell $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.75% Senior Notes due 2012 in a private offering. The company expects to close the transaction on or about October 29, 2004.

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ATi RS480 Pics

Oct 21 2004 @ 05:38PM by MikeC

The Inquirer has gotten a nice picture of the new ATi board that supports A64.

We managed to get a nice picture of ATI reference RS480 board. It has an actively cooled north bridge, four memory slots, PCIe 16X, two PCIe 1X, two PCI slots and one unidentified slot.

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AMD Hits The Road And Offers Consumers A Unique Opportunity To Test Drive Technology

Oct 19 2004 @ 04:35PM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CALIF -- October 19, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) is launching its first ever experiential technology tour, initiating a highly interactive 20-city road show that offers both consumers and small businesses first-hand experiences with AMD64 technology. The AMD64 Experience Tour features custom demonstrations that are dedicated to showcasing the versatile power of AMD64 technology, including gaming, music, imaging, video and home/office computing solutions.

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AMD64 Journeys To Shangri-La With Mark Knopfler

Oct 18 2004 @ 02:47PM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CALIF -- October 18, 2004 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that guitar superstar Mark Knopfler?s latest album ?Shangri-La? was recorded in high-resolution 24-bit/96kHz audio and 5.1 surround sound on a dual AMD Opteron? processor?based digital audio workstation. Basic tracks for the album were initially laid down on dual 16-track analog machines and then immediately transferred to the digital format for the remainder of the recording process. Mixing continued on the AMD64 workstation to provide the 5.1 surround and high-resolution stereo mixes. Chuck Ainlay, AMD64 Masters Group member, engineered the recording that he co-produced with Knopfler.

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nForce 4 pricing

Oct 18 2004 @ 02:45PM by MikeC

Pricing for the nForce 4 motherboards are slowly coming out.

There will be three versions of the boards. The top notch one with two PCIe graphics slots will cost less then $200. That's always $199. Boards are expected before Yule.

The Inquirer

 

Sempron Overclocking

Oct 13 2004 @ 11:11AM by MikeC

The guys over at Xbit Labs take a look at how overclockable a Sempron 3100+ is.

The Sempron family, however, isn?t restricted to the now-obsolete Socket A platform ? there is a Sempron 3100+ model for Socket 754, the only Sempron to feature the K8 architecture found in Athlon 64 CPUs. Like the Athlon 64, the Sempron 3100+ features a HyperTransport bus and an integrated memory controller with support of DDR400 SDRAM. This makes it an interesting sample to experiment with ? if the Sempron 3100+ can overclock well, it can form a good foundation for a low-cost system of some speed. In other words, just the system many overclockers would prefer to use! That?s why we want to dedicate a separate article to the overclocking capabilities of the Sempron 3100+.

Xbit Labs

 

NForce 4 Pictures

Oct 13 2004 @ 11:09AM by MikeC

The Inquirer has pictures of MSI's entry with the nForce 4 chipset.

We are proud to share one of the first pictures of MSI Nforce 4 motherboard. You will notice that board has only one chip covered with active cooler, PCIe 16X slot and two PCIe 1X slots, four PCI slots where one is possibly 266 MB/s fast, four memory slots, marvels eight SATA ports four of them controlled or helped by silicon image chip. The board still has two IDE channels and a floppy connector. A Via chip in front of PCIe 16X slot was one of the things that created a nice smile on my face. What an irony.

The Inquirer

 

Spansion?s Fab 25 Now Dedicated to 110nm Floating Gate Flash Memory Products

Oct 13 2004 @ 11:07AM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 12, 2004 --Spansion LLC, the Flash memory subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702), today announced that Fab 25, the company?s flagship manufacturing plant in Austin, is now fully dedicated to producing 110-nanometer floating gate Flash memory products for wireless and other markets.

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AMD Enables Cinematic Computing For Digital Media Enthusiasts

Oct 13 2004 @ 11:05AM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- October 12, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the AMD Athlon? 64 processor has been integrated into the new HP Media Center PC m1160n Photosmart PC, featuring Microsoft Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005. AMD Athlon 64 processor-based systems are an ideal choice for Media Center PCs, providing improved technology for games, movies, and streaming audio and video.

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8 Way Mutli Core?

Oct 11 2004 @ 02:05PM by MikeC

AMD is going to be providing 4 and 8 core solutions to system integrators. When will they be here? Only the guys at AMD know.

Sixty four bit computing was just an evolutionary step for the X86 market, said Patla. It took eighteen years for 64 bit to reach the market. The right way he said, was looking at overall system architecture. AMD focused on directly connecting the memory to the CPU, and over 50 per cent of the cost of a server is memory, he said."

The Inquirer

 

Dual PCI-E from SiS Next Year

Oct 11 2004 @ 08:26AM by MikeC

Most chipset manufacturers are coming up with dual PCI-E solutions for the AMD market, with the exception of ATi. SiS is slated to show off their stuff in the second half of 2005.

SIS will introduce its 756FX in the second half of 2005 and this will be its first chipset that will support two graphic cards in one motherboard.

The Inquirer

 

AMD Reports Third Quarter Results

Oct 08 2004 @ 08:18PM by MikeC

Sunnyvale, CA -- October 7, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today reported sales of $1.239 billion and net income of $44 million for the quarter ended September 26, 2004. Net income amounted to $0.12 per diluted share.

Third quarter sales increased by 30 percent compared to the same period in 2003 and decreased by two percent from the second quarter of 2004. In the third quarter of 2003, AMD reported sales of $954 million and a net loss of $31 million, or $0.09 per share. In the second quarter of 2004, AMD reported sales of $1.262 billion and net income of $32 million, or $0.09 per diluted share.

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ATi PCI-E Chipset for K8

Oct 08 2004 @ 05:32AM by MikeC

According to this article from Digitimes, ATi has already started shipping PCI-E enabled chipsets eventhough they haven't even announced such a product yet.

"ATI is the first company to ship PCIe-enabled core-logic chipsets for the AMD K8 platform, and this will be its first chipset offering for an AMD processor platform. The company is offering two K8 chipsets, the RX480 discrete chipset, and the RX480 integrated part. ATI will also launch the RS400 integrated chipset for Intel's Pentium 4 platform."

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No K9, but K10s are on their way in 2006

Oct 08 2004 @ 05:27AM by MikeC

In the finest Intelesque naming traditions, the dual core K8 is now K9, and the next real core is K10. If the addition of SSE to the PII core rated an extra I, the addition of an extra K for another whole core is a forgivable PR gaffe.

The Inquirer

 

AMD Updates Third Quarter Outlook

Oct 06 2004 @ 06:04PM by MikeC

SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 4, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that net income for the third quarter ended September 26, 2004 is anticipated to increase from the $32 million reported in the second quarter of 2004 despite slightly lower sales. The company?s prior guidance for the third quarter was for sales to be up moderately from second quarter sales of $1.262 billion.

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Details on AMD's Dual Core

Oct 05 2004 @ 06:30PM by MikeC

EE Times has some interesting details on AMD's upcoming dual core processor.

The company's dual-core processor is a 205-million transistor chip, based on a 90-nm process and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The device is approximately the same die size as a single-core, 130-nm Opteron processor, McGrath said. The 940-socket compatible chip is said to have a 95-Watt power envelope, he said.

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A64 Price Drop

Oct 05 2004 @ 04:46AM by MikeC

If you're thinking of buying an Athlon 64 in the short run, I suggest you wait till about October 15th, when AMD will cut prices on their 64-bit processors.

CHIP FIRM AMD will cut prices on Athlon 64s on the 15th of October, according to sources.

Check out the new prices at The Inquirer

 

Bad news for nForce 4

Oct 04 2004 @ 04:50PM by MikeC

Apparently the first generation of the nForce 4 chipset will not be able to support 1GHz Hyper Transport. However A02, will.

Nvidia is very precise in its document that due to the number of electrical factors its chipset will refuse to run reliably at 5X Hypertransport speed.

The Inquirer

 

Wyse Leverages AMD?s Embedded Solutions to Provide Next Generation Thin-Client Platforms

Oct 04 2004 @ 04:47PM by MikeC

CITRIX IFORUM - ORLANDO, Fla. -- October 4, 2004 --Wyse Technology, the domain experts in server-centric computing (SCC), announced today at the Citrix iForum conference that the company has selected the AMD Geode? GX 533@1.1W and GX 466@0.9W processors* to power the next generation S class of Wyse® Winterm? thin-client devices. The collaboration with AMD allows Wyse to offer performance improvements at lower power in its latest compact and streamlined family of thin-client designs.

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