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06/29/05 - AMD Japan sues Intel KK too
The suit in the Tokyo High Court seeks US$50 million in damages, following on the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC)’s findings in its March 8, 2005 Recommendation that Intel KK committed violations of the Antimonopoly Act.  The JFTC Recommendation concluded that Intel KK interfered with AMD Japan’s business activities by providing large amounts of funds to five Japanese PC manufacturers (NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi) on the condition that they refuse to purchase AMD processors. Read the rest here
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06/28/05 - New 10 Gigabit Ethernet Record
Today Neterion Inc., announced that Xframe(R) II, an adapter based on the PCI-X 2.0 bus architecture with Double Date Rate technology, used AMD Opteron processors to set a new record for network bandwidth. The performance testing was conducted and monitored in AMD's performance labs in Austin, TX. Uni-directional traffic sustained a level of ~9.86 Gigabits per second, virtually reaching the nominal line-rate of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, to easily eclipse the earlier record of ~7.7 Gbps held by Neterion. At ~14.5 Gbps, bi-directional traffic rates nearly doubled the previous number. More here
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06/28/05 - AMD Files Antitrust Complaint Against Intel
AMD announced that it filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel – including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents. Read more here
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06/24/05 - Fuel cell to power laptop  for more than 8 hours
The Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group today released its Fuel Cell Guidelines for Mobile PCs. The guidelines cover all mechanical, electrical, thermal, control, environmental and regulatory aspects of fuel cells for mobile computers. Fuel cells are expected to offer notebooks a battery life of more than eight hours and DV hardware has more about this here
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06/24/05
- Sempron 3300+ latest version is AMD64 ready!
Stealthy launched from AMD, the Sempron 3300+ AMD64 ready is already selling and we have the latest screen copies to prove it. According to them, the AMD Sempron 3300+, now in its third version, is adding AMD64 (ex X86-64) instruction set to the SSE3 compatibily added with rev E3 and runs flawlessly with Window 64-bit Pro! Enjoy all this here
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06/23/05
- AMD launches Turion 64 ML-40
AMD introduced a new level of performance for highly mobile business professionals with
AMD Turion 64 mobile technology model ML-40, the latest addition to AMD's popular 64-bit processor family optimized for mobility. The first notebook PC based on the latest AMD Turion 64 ML-40 is the HP Compaq nx6125 notebook PC, which is expected to be available worldwide this month. Read more here
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06/22/05
- Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport 64
Digital Jesters has announced today with developer Kylotonn and AMD, that Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport will upon release will have a 64-bit version of Bet onSoldier, which will take full advantage of the processing power of the 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 FX. This will mean that the retail release of Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport will not only feature a normal 32-bit version, but also the full on 64-bit version all part of one package. Read more about all this and check for download material here
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06/22/05
- New supercomputers overhaul top ranks
Interesting read today at CNET regardind the newest 500 Supercomputer's list at Top500.org where IBM is gaining ground against falling star Itanium: "AMD built the Opteron processors used in the No. 10 system, a new machine called Red Storm built by Cray for Sandia National Laboratories. It was clocked at 15.2 teraflops, but Sandia spokesman said the full system isn't expected to be running until sometime before October". Enjoy that here
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06/22/05
- Cray inked a new Opteron contract
Cray Inc. today announced that Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has ordered a
Cray XD1 supercomputer. AWI selected the Cray XD1 system to run advanced polar and marine research applications related to climate and environmental studies, including global circulation models, regional atmospheric models and others. The new Cray system has been installed and taken into production at AWI's facility in Bremerhaven. Read more here
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06/22/05
- Dual-core Opteron servers coming at HP
The good news is coming from ZDNet here and it shows HP's commitment to promote AMD Opteron platform: "The dual-core chips will be available in lower-end systems with two chip sockets: the DL385, with a starting price of $3,299, the DL145 G2, which starts at $1,219; and the BL25p and BL35p blade servers, which start at $3,099 and $2,599, respectively. The systems will be available June 27"
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06/20/05
- Corsair Update: TCCD Supply Demystified
The Samsung TCCD memory chip is the best overclocking IC for the AMD platform. Since speculation began about the TCCD reaching End-of-Life (EOL), the enthusiast community has been concerned about its near- and long-term availability. The purpose of this update located here is to provide a lead on the current status of this very popular IC
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06/14/05
- Golden Gate Support for AMD Opteron
Golden Gate Technology Inc.,announced that its two new software products -- Power Optimize Gold and Power Plan Gold -- will work in computing environments that are based on AMD Opteron processor. Power Optimize Gold and Power Plan Gold work with existing place & route flows from Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Magma; reduce power consumption in circuits by up to 25%; and enable multi-voltage island architecture creation. The AMD Opteron processor minimizes integration complexity by giving its users high-performance 32- and 64-bit simultaneous computing, as well as an easy transition path to 64-bit technology without sacrificing performance. More here
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