AMD tar andelar på processormarknaden, genomsnittliga priset ökar

Tvärt emot, AMDs aktie gick upp en aning vid kvartalsrapporten då enligt AMD själva sålt så bra av de här Fusion processorerna och den integrerade teknologin med GPU+CPU.

Bulldozer är salt i såret för AMD, men det skadade inte aktievärdet något nämnvärt, dock så har Bulldozer inte letat sig ut till marknaden på allvar än, och kan därför inte riktigt räknas in mot AMDs vinst än.

Hittade du på det där eller finns det verkligen någon sanning i det?

VIA Technologies (TWSE: 2388) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group. It is the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual (silicon) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries, such as TSMC.

History

In 1983, the firm was founded from the Symphony Company in Silicon Valley by Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦), among others. He was employed at Intel before joining Symphony, and is still CEO of Symphony. Chen transferred the employees of Symphony to Taiwan, to start chip production. VIA stands for "Very Innovative Architecture".
In 1997, the headquarters were moved to Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1992, VIA took a major part in the PC Common Architecture standard group, pushing the move from the ISA bus to the PCI bus.
In 1998, VIA acquired most of Cyrix, then a division of National Semiconductor, and also Integrated Device Technology's Centaur, marking its entry into the x86 microprocessor market. VIA is the maker of the VIA C3 and VIA C7 processors, and the EPIA platform. The Cyrix MediaGX platform remained with National Semiconductor.
In 2001, VIA established the S3 Graphics joint venture.
In January 2005, VIA began the VIA pc-1 Initiative, to develop information and communication technology systems to benefit those with no access to computers or Internet. In February 2005, VIA celebrated production of the 100 millionth VIA AMD chipset.
In 29 August 2008, VIA announced that they were releasing official 2D accelerated Linux drivers for their chipsets, and would also release 3D accelerated drivers.[1]

Legal issues

On the basis of the IDT Centaur acquisition,[9] VIA appears to have come into possession of at least three patents, which cover key aspects of processor technology used by Intel. On the basis of the negotiating leverage these patents offered, in 2003 VIA arrived at an agreement with Intel that allowed for a ten year patent cross license, enabling VIA to continue to design and manufacture x86 compatible CPUs. VIA was also granted a three year grace period in which it could continue to use Intel socket infrastructure.

Inte så himla svårt att hitta saker om VIA.

Den enda del av VIA som har sålts är deras grafikdivision "S3 Graphics" som köptes upp av HTC i somras.
Patenten byttes mellan VIA och Intel för att VIA skulle få fortsätta tillverka x86-processorer har jag för mig.

Wikipedia berättar inte allt, t.ex. inte försäljningen av S3 ;). Jag hade för mig att något hade hänt med VIA, kunde inte komma på vad men var rätt säker på att Intel inte hade köpt upp dem i vart fall

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Microchip maker AMD, Intel's chief rival, announced Thursday that it would cut about 1,200 jobs in an attempt to get its costs under control.

The layoffs represent roughly 10% of AMD's 11,600 employees across the globe. AMD said it expects to see the benefits of the job cuts right away, gaining $10 million in savings during the current quarter and $118 million next year.

Trist, för det indikerar att dom inte ser sådär jätteljust på försäljningsökningen framåt. Får hoppas kommande generationer är bättre, för konkurrens behöver vi.

Man får väl se det här som det positiva : AMD said it plans to use the cash to deepen its investment in new technologies like chips that use less power for mobile devices like tablets.