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Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, Nvidia

December 1, 2006 Companies say they'll comply with agency's probe into potential antitrust violations regarding graphics processors. TAGS: subpoena, investigation, antitrust, AMD, NVidia, GPU, agency, ATI Technologies, Intel, video card, PC

AMD folds in ATI for graphics future

October 25, 2006 Newly merged company outlines its plans to deliver a combination PC/graphics processor by 2008 or 2009. TAGS: chipset, PC processor, AMD, ATI Technologies, shareholder, PC company, GPU, acquisition, PC, NVidia, Intel

When 'good enough' graphics won't do

November 21, 2006 newsmaker More troubling than ATI or any other rival, says Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, is the notion that customers might get complacent. TAGS: NVidia, GPU, AMD, event, CEO, ATI Technologies, gamer, Nvidia GeForce, chipset

AMD to shell out $5.4 billion for ATI

July 24, 2006 Purchasing the graphics chipmaker will help AMD expand its product mix and market share as it battles Intel. TAGS: S&P, AMD, graphics chip company, microprocessor, ATI Technologies, merger, consumer electronics, mobile computing, acquisition, graphics chip, Intel, chipset, chip company, NVidia

Intel aims for open-source graphics advantage

August 9, 2006 Chipmaker releases open-source software in an attempt to lure customers away from ATI Technologies and Nvidia. TAGS: open source, graphics chip, Intel, ATI Technologies, NVidia, open-source software, Linux, chip company, 3D, programming, AMD

AMD selling beauty and the brand

January 23, 2007 Chipmaker to tout zippy graphics and industry deals when selling chips for basic PCs this year--a pitch too narrow, some say. TAGS: graphics performance, chipset, AMD, transistor, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel, chip company, ATI Technologies, brand, NVidia, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, e-mail

At CES, chipmakers play their cards

January 8, 2008 Intel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics, and PC makers put the company's Penryn into products. Plus: Nvidia's boost for AMD. TAGS: Paul Otellini, Consumer Electronics Show, chip company, consumer electronics, CEO, electronics, Intel, AMD, NVidia

Year in review: Shrinking chips, shrinking revenue

December 31, 2008 The "smaller is better" theme played out with Intel's Atom chip and Netbook PCs, but the recession also put a squeeze on the industry. TAGS: graphics chip, Netbook, MacBook Air, Intel, NVidia, theme, Apple MacBook, AMD, PC

The next wave of PCs

June 5, 2008 New chips like Intel's Atom and Nvidia's Tegra are shaping the development of PCs from the Eee Box desktop to the emerging category of mobile Internet devices. TAGS: Computex, nanotechnology, NVidia, AMD, ASUS, Ubuntu, Intel, Acer Aspire, notebook computer, mobile device, blog, laptop computer, ATI Technologies, Acer Inc., PC

PC Gaming Alliance debuts

February 20, 2008 Activision, AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia co-found nonprofit dedicated to "advancing the PC as a worldwide gaming platform." TAGS: formation, hardware manufacturer, Activision Inc., San Francisco, games, console, AMD, PC, NVidia, Dell, Intel, Microsoft Corp.

Intel's chipset road map lacks a driver

May 17, 2007 An attempt by Intel to improve the performance of basic graphics technology has been stalled by software development delays. TAGS: chipset, Intel, research company, software development, DirectX, AMD, ATI Technologies, CPU, games, Microsoft Windows Vista, NVidia, PC, Microsoft Windows

Making mountains out of multicore

September 18, 2006 Start-up PeakStream's software is designed to adapt technical computing tasks to graphics and multicore chips. TAGS: multi-core processor, graphics chip, multi-core, co-founder, IBM Corp., NVidia, AMD
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