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AMD is preparing a super-thin laptop that could give Intel-based Ultrabooks a run for their money, with reportedly better graphics performance and battery life. The 18mm-thick reference laptop, which AMD showed at its recent financial analyst day, was built by Compal and showcases AMD’s next-generation Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), codenamed Trinity, which is due later this year.

AMD is purportedly working on its own category of slimmed-down laptops as competition for Intel's Ultrabooks and the hugely successful Apple MacBook Air. While that might not be a big surprise to anyone (every computer manufacturer these days seems to be latching onto the thinner and lighter trend), it's interesting that sources say these ultrathin laptops with AMD processors may appear as early as next month.

The chip vendor claims it has released the world's first 16 core x86 CPU will increase scalability for virtualisation

The chip vendor claims it has released the world's first 16 core x86 CPU will increase scalability for virtualisation.

AMD's latest-and-greatest chip may lag slightly behind Intel's competing Core i5, as initial PCWorld performance-testing indicates. But these disappointing results hide benefits that AMD's "Bulldozer" FX CPU will likely offer, especially for cost-conscious small businesses.

Chip vendor, AMD, has updated its C and E series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for notebooks, ultrathins, netbooks and desktop PCs.

Chip vendor, AMD, has appointed Rory Read as its president and chief executive officer. Read has also been appointed to the company’s board of directors.

With the release of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, AMD delivers fantastic value for the average PC gamer.

The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.

If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market. AMD's latest plan seems to be to push back on economic grounds -- to offer high-value budget chipsets targeted at the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 systems, and high-performance chipsets that are slightly slower, but much cheaper, than equivalent Intel products. And Intel is firing back.

In an industry that gets off on throwing obscure benchmarks at buyers, laptop battery life is one of the easiest to understand.

Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.