Intel Fires Thousands

Intel has around 100,000 employees currently working for them. Therefore, firing off around 10,000 or so wouldn't be that big of an issue; but it wouldn't aid the unemployment rate. Firing 10% of a company's staff may very well prove to be a useful money-making strategy. Perhaps the 10,000 employees were the ones dragging their feet on development or simply leaching money from the company.

Will cutting jobs look like a "good" thing in the public's eyes?

Intel Develops DDR3 Supporting Chipset

Intel's newest chipset, scheduled for a spring release in 2007, sports a feature allowing their processor's front-side bus speed to operate at 1333 Mhz. While it's true that AMD's front-side bus speed has been superior for quite some time now, this chipset allows for DDR3 speeds up to 1333 Mhz as well. This could, in affect, render AMD's on-chip memory controller obsolete. If that were to happen; AMD may have to develop a whole new architecture to compensate. However, a "counter-attack" may already be in the works.

Will AMD be able to develop a superior flagship architecture in time?

Dell Integrates AMD Processors

Over the past couple of weeks Dell has been ordering processors from AMD to integrate into their systems. Now, after all this time, Dell has finally started selling AMD-based systems to the public; desktop and notebook alike.

With this newly extended popularity of AMD, will the public catch on?

Asus & Gigabyte Unite

It appears as though AMD and ATI have started a trend. Asustek and Gigabyte motherboard manufacturers have decided to merge under the "Gigabyte" name. The brandnames are expected to transition at the beginning of next year, 2007.

Will any other companies decide to merge in the not-to-distant future?

AMD Aids 3rd World Countries

AMD's old socket 754 Semprons are now being used for a higher purpose. It seems some of the more depressed areas of the world will be kicked off with a good start in the computer world. AMD's low prices and high functionality will prove very useful for the people getting the computers. It may even raise their status in the world market. If AMD keeps up all this intensive thinking, Intel's stock may suffer from it. Given, AMD needs to get rid of the rest of their skt 754 processors somehow, but at least they're doing for a good cause; besides, the only other processors being sold in those areas are Celeron-D's.

Will AMD stand to gain from this seemingly profitable endeavor?