Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMD Announces Private Offering of $500 Million of Senior Notes [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 7 hours 6 minutes ago
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it intends to commence an offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes in a private offering. AMD intends to use the proceeds, along with existing cash, to purchase its 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 validly tendered pursuant to the company’s tender offer for such notes, which was also announced today. Net proceeds not used in the tender offer, if any, will be...

PLX PCI Express Switch Enables Blinding Speed on New ATI Radeon Flagship Graphics Card [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 hours 6 minutes ago
PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLXT), the leading global supplier of PCI Express® (PCIe®) switch and bridge solutions, today announced its PEX 8647 PCIe Gen 2 switch is the high-performance, peer-to-peer connectivity solution on the new premium ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 dual-GPU graphics cards from AMD® (NYSE:AMD). The innovative ATI Radeon HD 5970, recently released and targeting extreme gamers, offers superior graphics execution via the industry’s fastest video card. The powerful ATI Radeon HD 5970...

Bates White Supports Experts in Landmark Microprocessor Antitrust Case: AMD v. Intel Settles for $1.25 Billion [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 15 hours 49 minutes ago
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Dell Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Hewlett-Packard [Press Release]
Business Wire | 16 days 21 hours 6 minutes ago
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ).

AMD Commences Tender Offer for Its 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2012 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 7 hours 5 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it commenced a cash tender offer for up to $1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (the “notes”). AMD intends to finance the purchase of the notes tendered in the tender offer with the net proceeds from the closing of AMD’s private offering of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2017 (the “New Notes Offering”), which was separately announced by AMD today, and from the r...

Schaeffer s Street Stories: Pessimism Blankets Advanced Micro Devices Ahead of Earnings [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 1 hour 11 minutes ago
As earnings draw near for semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), traders have flocked to the stock's puts in anticipation of a negative report. The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has reported a 10-day put/call volume ratio of 0.52, which is higher than 85% of all those taken during the past 52 weeks. In addition, the ISE/Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) 10-day put/call volume ratio comes in at 0.54, which is also higher than 85% of all those taken du...

Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Agreement with International Business Machines Corporation [Press Release]
Business Wire | 14 days 8 hours 5 minutes ago
Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG) announced today that its Optimum Processing Solutions LLC (OPS) subsidiary has entered into a settlement agreement with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). This agreement resolves all claims between OPS and IBM arising out of the patent litigation captioned Optimum Processing Solutions, LLC v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., et al., Civil Action Case No. 1:09-cv-1098, pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District o...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Benefit from AMD Virtualization Technology and Energy Efficiency [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 5 hours 6 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today congratulates Microsoft Corp. on the significant achievement of bringing the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems to the enterprise. Windows 7 is the perfect companion for AMD Business Class technology1 while Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor together provide a stable and reliable, high-performance enterprise computing environment. The close collaboration between AMD and Microsoft helps enterprise computing customers achie...

AMD Introduces ATI Radeon HD 5970: Fastest Graphics Card in the World1 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 14 hours 5 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the flagship installment in the award-winning line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, the fastest card ever created.1 The new ultra high-end model joins a growing list of the world’s first and only graphics cards to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.

GSA Announces Board Change at the Media Luncheon During the Semiconductor Leaders Forum Taiwan [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 19 hours 6 minutes ago
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New ATI Stream Development Platforms Now Available from Colfax and Exxact [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 5 hours 6 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced developers can now acquire fully configured ATI Stream technology-enabled development platforms from Colfax and Exxact. These new systems provide developers and researchers with complete development platforms, leveraging the latest high-performance AMD GPU architecture along with AMD’s OpenCL™ 1.0-compliant ATI Stream SDK 2.0 to deliver up to 2.72 TFLOPS of compute performance.1

AMD Accelerates Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream Technology [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 14 hours 5 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that the beta Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta released today supports platforms powered by Vision Technology from AMD to deliver high-quality, high definition (HD) on Flash platform -based video and other rich Web based content and applications. Flash Player 10.1 leverages ATI Stream technology and a balanced approach using both AMD CPUs and GPUs for an amazing experience, including improved video playback, reduced CPU utilization and extended battery life.

Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 14 hours 5 minutes ago
The Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based system “Jaguar” is the world’s supreme supercomputer according to the TOP500 Organization, which today released its bi-annual list of the highest performing systems in the world. This mission-critical Cray XT5™ system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently upgraded from quad- to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and delivers 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark.

AMD Reports Third Quarter Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 38 days 22 hours 51 minutes ago
AMD1 (NYSE:AMD) today reported revenue for the third quarter of 2009 of $1.396 billion. Third quarter 2009 revenue increased 18 percent compared to the second quarter of 2009 and decreased 22 percent compared to the third quarter of 2008.

Critical Alerts for GE, UnitedHealth, AMD, Autodesk, and VMware Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 41 days 35 minutes ago
...s PriceWatch Alerts cover the following stocks: General Electric Co. , UnitedHealth Group, Inc. , Advanced Micro Devices Inc. , Autodesk, Inc. , and VMware, Inc. . In today's unsure markets these brief PriceWatch Alerts contain concise...