Mind the Gap
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 2:48 PM
Loading ...I have just seen a sneak preview of the PCMag Digital Network’s 2009 Consumer Technology Holiday Study and it is full of interesting stuff. I don’t want to spoil their party and pre-release all the details, but I do have permission to talk about one particular question, on our favorite subject of netbooks.
From a sampling [...]
A Guest Appearance
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 1:00 PM
Just a quick post to let you know that I’m currently a guest on Microsoft’s Windows blog. Please have a read and let me know what you think. As always, your comments are vital to the discussion.
Read More500 Million Down…
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 11:00 AM
Last week we announced that AMD has shipped 500 million x86 processors. This is a very real achievement, and one that we’re rightly proud of. 500 million is one of those numbers that is difficult for the human mind to grasp, like sand on a beach or stars in the sky.
Suffice to say, it’s [...]
Now On the Web
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 2:48 PM
For those of you who have become regular followers of this blog (and thank you for that), I wanted to alert you to a recent interview with me that is now streaming on Forbes.com’s CMO Network site. This is a short video that will give you a bit more insight into AMD and our approach [...]
Read MorePoint Taken
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 11:25 AM
Let me first give a nod to my colleague Margaret Lewis, who blogged about her experience at the GigaOm Structure ’09 event, particularly around hearing comments from Facebook’s Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations, first hand. While I was 1,500 miles away in Austin, I think I squirmed in my seat just as much [...]
Read MoreDDR3 has Arrived
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 1:28 PM
In my last post on DDR3, I predicted that it would be mid-2010 before DDR3 reached price parity with DDR2, and encouraged users to wait to adopt. At the time, the price of DDR3 memory was more than double that of DDR2. Based on what we’ve seen in the past with memory, mass adoption of [...]
Read MoreNetbook v. Notebook – Confusion Ensues
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 10:00 AM
Vodka and water. They look the same, but taste different (or so they tell me).
Similarly, netbooks may look like notebooks, but ― as we’ve previously pointed out ― they’re not the same.
NPD released a survey last week finding that 60% of consumers who purchased a netbook thought it would have the same performance as a [...]
Sweet Suite
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 9:52 AM
I often get asked about AMD’s commitment to the Linux® community. In fact we are very committed to Linux and the broader open source community, and some recent news speaks directly to that.
Last week we posted on our developer site a pre-release version of the x86 Open64 Compiler Suite. Targeted at high performance and parallel computing workloads, this [...]
AMD and the Code Name “Congo”
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 5:26 PM
AMD has taken a bit of flack recently because we referred to an upcoming laptop platform using the name of a river, “Congo”, as a code name. Some people took objection to the association ― entirely unintended ― with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As it happens, because we were moving closer [...]
Read MoreAMD Fusion, or up to 8X More Performance for No Extra Cost
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 12:42 PM
It’s pretty good when you get asked to do as a business project something that’s also your hobby. That’s what I was doing last weekend ― and I know that you wanted the details!
I first learned to edit video at school, maybe 30 years ago, on reel-to-reel Sony black and white video machines. The process [...]