Archive for the ‘ Advanced Micro Devices Inc|AMD|NYSE ’ Category

Dell Settles S.E.C. Accounting Suit for $100 Million

Dell agreed to pay $100 million to settle S.E.C. charges that its senior executives used fraudulent accounting tricks to make it appear that it was meeting Wall Street earnings targets.

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Loss Narrows in Quarter for Intel Rival, A.M.D.

A.M.D. would have made money were it not for a loss related to its investment in factories it spun off a year ago.

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Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep

BioShock 2 is fun, but it is also a bit stagnant in its creative ambition.

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Intel Settlement Gives A.M.D. a Profit in Quarter

A.M.D. would have lost money were it not for a $1.25 billion payment it received to squash a long-running antitrust battle.

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The Desktop: It’s Alive!

Several trends suggest that desktop sales could pick up in 2010 after a couple of years of steady declines in the face of laptop competition.

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Shares Rise in Graphics Firms After Intel Delays Chip

In a humbling move, Intel has pushed back, way back, the release of a graphics chip meant to challenge Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

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Supercomputing for the Masses

A drop in the price of supercomputers and other advances are pulling down the high walls around computing-intensive research, possibly democratizing the field.

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Nvidia’s Gamers Helped It Win Big Business

Profits gained from Nvidia's gaming chip business have helped pay for an expansion into the corporate and science markets.

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Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super

Increasingly, they are really large systems that rely on mainstream computing parts.

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A.M.D.-Intel Settlement Won’t End Their Woes

Advanced Micro Devices, a rival maker of computer chips, had accused Intel of strong-arm tactics to pressure PC makers to buy Intel products.

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