Wednesday, October 31, 2012

AMD Finds the Courage for Another Server Chip Gambit

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Oct 30, 2012

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AMD Finds the Courage for Another Server Chip Gambit

With its sales falling, AMD will try to revive its business by modifying smartphone chips to become low-power workhorses in the data center

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This week in Technology Insider

Welcome to the Tech Insider. This week Ashlee Vance looks at Advanced Micro Devices’s plans to take a type of chip found in smartphones and tablets and beef it up to handle data center software. AMD's big push here is to add some features data center folks tend to like, and pop out a server-friendly ARM chip in a couple of years. We also have stories on executive changes at Apple, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 push. Enjoy!

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