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AMD Buys SeaMicro

AMD said late Wednesday that it’s buying microserver start-up SeaMicro for $334 million. It means to pay $281 million in out-of-pocket cash and the remaining $53 million in its disrespected stock. If memory serves, AMD hasn’t bought much of anything since it impoverished itself buying Canadian graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion back in [...]

AMD Ships First Fusion Chips

AMD started shipping its very first hard-won Fusion chips to OEMs Tuesday. Those are the long-promised widgets that mate CPUs and DirectX11-compatible GPUs on a single die made possible by the company’s crippling $5.4 billion acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006. It’s not clear which so-called APU (Accelerate Processing Units) chips started shipping. It could [...]

Why the Biggest Antitrust Case Ever May Never Get to Court

by Maureen O’Gara Wanna bet that Intel has found a way to get AMD to drop its cherished antitrust suit against the semiconductor giant – and that AMD handed Intel the six-gun to blow it away like in a Sam Peckinpah movie? It all revolves around AMD’s so-called asset light strategy and the fact that [...]