Chip maker, AMD has said that t ahs started dispatching the `Interlagos x86 processor' to hardware makers and most of the first displacement will be intergraded in super computers.

The company started working on the processor, which is a 16-core Opteron built on a 32nm process, back in August 2010. The processor has the highest core count of any of AMD's server chips. AMD's acting chief executive, Thomas Seifert claims that the processor is the first ever to be `optimised for today's cloud datacentres'.

IT executives in companies are getting more comfortable with cloud computing, according to a recent poll by chip-designer AMD. The new study found that despite security and reliability concerns associated to cloud computing these days, a growing number of companies are adopting the medium for various uses.

The AMD survey included IT decision-makers at 1,513 companies with 100 or more employees. The survey conducted in March involved 1,000 respondents from the US, 259 from Asia (China, India, and Singapore), and 254 from Europe (the UK, France, and Germany).

AMD, the world renowned chipmaker, has proclaimed empowering the notebook market with its advent in the notebook section.

The game player of the desktop graphics market is all set to release a new saga of events where it will seek its entry in the notebook market. It came from the officials at AMD that chipmaker's notebook CPUs will power 109 different laptops in the months to come, reports Reuters. This in comparison to yester year is mere 40 laptop models.

ECS has proclaimed its new AMD mother boards termed as - A885GM-A2 and A885GM-M2. These motherboards rely on the latest AMD 880G/SB850 chipsets.

Featuring the latest chipsets these boards boast of AMD Six-Core Phenom II CPU. The CPU known as performance booster increases the act by 50 percent over other older Quad-Core systems. These motherboards also feature ECS's M.I.B. III (Motherboard Intelligent BIOS) bios-level easy over-clocking utility using where patrons can overclock the whole system themselves.

San Francisco - Computer chip giant Intel is to pay smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices 1.25 million dollars to settle claims that it violated antitrust and patent laws the companies said Thursday.

The move comes just days after Intel was sued by New York state for anti-trust violations and follows a 1.5 billion fine slapped on Intel by the European Commission for anti-trust offences.

AMD is planning to commence construction on a new facility which would accommodate its worldwide Foundries spin-off.

Friday, an announcement made by the company specified that the revolutionary for the fresh $4.2bn manufacturing facility in upstate New York.

When it is finished, the Global Foundries' offices and manufacturing operations would be housed by the facility. It should be noted that it was the previous year when the manufacturing company spun off Global Foundries from AMD, with the help of the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi.

California-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the no. 2 maker of personal-computer processors after Intel, has posted $330 million loss for the second quarter, making shares to dip more than 12%.

AMD's gross margins for the second quarter plunged to 37%, down from 43% in the first quarter.

The gross margins are very much critical for the chip-makers as they reflect how well companies are controlling costs. AMD's gross profit margin is shrinking, while Intel's is improving.

AMD, which has been struggling for the last two years to return to profitability, has lost 49 cents a share as compared with $1.97 a share last year.