SAN FRANCISCO — Opteron: It sounds like one of Godzilla’s mechanical foes, but it’s actually Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s name for its next-generation 64-bit processor, formerly code-named ...

The long-awaited launch of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s (AMD’s) Athlon64 processor is less than a week away, and it’s only a matter of time before rival Intel Corp. duplicates AMD’s approach, the ...

If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. This seems like a long time to wait, which is why so ...

One of the oldest ideas in humanity – and one that may have predated language as we know it – is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Another adage is that he who has the gold makes the rules, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. It takes a significant market disruption to bring fierce competitors like Intel and AMD ...

AMD’s Zen 5 is here! AMD launched its next-generation Ryzen 9000 series of desktop PC processors on Monday morning local time at Computex, kicking off the next round of processor competition between ...

Although the market share would tell you otherwise, the battle between AMD and Intel is quite fierce right now, and it’s AMD that often tops the list of the best processors in the last couple of years ...

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched an industry group dedicated to improving the x86 instruction set architecture. Besides the two chipmakers, the consortium, announced at the ...