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NEWS ABOUT: processor

processor stories: 3 news summaries

 Cuomo Slaps Intel 
 With Antitrust Suit 

Says chipmaker paid kickbacks, strongarmed manufacturers

Nov 4, 09 10:41 AM CST
(Newser) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed an antitrust suit against Intel today, accusing it of “a worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct.” Cuomo says Intel paid computer manufacturers billions in kickbacks provided they didn’t produce computers with rival chips. The money was disguised as “rebates,... More »

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Intel • antitrust • Andrew Cuomo • antitrust suit • AMD • processor • computer hardware • Intel Corp

AMD to Slash 10%
of Jobs in '08

Chip maker was hurt by defective product, slumping sales

Apr 8, 08 12:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Advanced Micro Devices will shed 10% of its workforce this year and predicts a 15% first-quarter revenue drop, down to $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. Slumping desktop sales and the company's line of defective chips and have hurt AMD, which will lay off workers worldwide at "... More »

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Intel • job cuts • AMD • microchip • processor • computer hardware • first quarter earnings

AMD Chip Brings Games to Mainstream

High-caliber graphics will now be available on family computers, laptops

Mar 5, 08 10:52 AM CST
(Newser) - A new chip may make up-market graphics applications like graphics editing and video games accessible on mass-market computers, says maker AMD. The 780 series integrated graphics chip, announced Tuesday at the CeBIT trade show in Germany, makes use of technology acquired when AMD bought ATI Technologies in 2006. "It... More »

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computer graphics • AMD • integrated graphics chip • graphics • processor

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