AMD heeft een press release geschreven waarin de resultaten van het 3e kwartaal bekend worden gemaakt. Ook dit kwartaal was weer een enorm succes voor AMD, dat haar verkopen van Flash-producten en processoren t.o.v. 1999 zag verdubbelen en t.o.v. het vorige kwartaal met 10% zag stijgen. Hier komen de cijfertjes:
AMD today reported record sales of $1,206,549,000, record operating income of $262,844,000, and record net income of $408,567,000 for the quarter ended October 1, 2000. Net income amounted to $1.18 per diluted share. The company's third-quarter results included a one-time gain of $336,899,000 resulting from the sale of the company's voice communications business (Legerity) during the quarter, and charges of $22,980,000 relating to the retirement of senior secured notes. Net income excluding one-time gains and charges was $219,301,000, or $0.64 per diluted share, also a record.[break]Het is grappig om te zien dat AMD van verliezen naar enorme winsten is toegegaan. Kijk eens naar de resultaten van dezelfde periode in 1999:[/break]In the like period of 1999, AMD reported sales of $662,192,000, an operating loss of $98,990,000, and net loss of $105,545,000, or a loss of $0.36 per share.[break]CEO Jerry Sanders III vertelt ons dat vooral de Flashproducten van AMD het erg goed deden in het derde kwartaal:[/break]"Sales growth was led by continuing extraordinary demand for AMD flash memory devices, whose sales more than doubled over the same period of 1999 and grew by 17 percent sequentially on record unit sales," said W.J. Sanders III, chairman and chief executive officer. "Demand for AMD flash memory products continues to exceed supply. Demand also continues to be broadly based, reflecting strength in cellular telephones, set-top boxes, automotive applications, Internet infrastructure products, and mobile Internet appliances.[break]De resultaten van de processordivisie waren iets minder spectaculair, maar nog steeds fantastisch te noemen:[/break]"In a tougher market than anticipated, AMD achieved record PC processor revenues on record unit sales, which were up more than 50 percent year-on-year and 10 percent sequentially," Sanders said. "We continued our excellent operational execution and met our aggressive goal of sequentially doubling combined AMD Athlon™ and AMD Duron™ processor sales to more than 3.6 million units. Our position as the reliable provider of the world's fastest PC processors contributed immensely to our success in gaining market share worldwide, particularly in the performance sector.
Micron blew the doors off of a much more powerful core logic controller. This DDR SDRAM chipset, dubbed "Mamba", is designed for the AMD Athlon and leverages design lessons learned from the Samurai. In designing the Samurai, Micron noticed that 40% of its die was unused white space. Wasted silicon translates into wasted money, so Micron searched for a way to more efficiently use the Samurai's die. The Idaho based memory company came up with the idea of embedding an eight megabyte L3 cache into the chipset! Christened "eCache," this L3 cache memory can maintain 9.6 GB/s of sustainable bandwidth. By fabricating eCache on the same die as the memory controller, Micron can reduce latencies by up to 50%!
Een ring kan vibreren of flitsen om haar drager te laten weten dat deze een nieuw bericht heeft wat vervolgens op een armband gelezen kan worden of beluisterd via een oorring. Morris sprak ook over IBM's horloge computer. De gadget, al eerder getoond op PC Expo dit jaar, gebruikt een speciale weinig energie verbruikende LED display om haar onderwerp - bijvoorbeeld een e-mail of een stratenplan - te tonen en houdt ook de agenda van haar gebruiker in de gaten.
Het toestel wordt opengeklapt om een scherm van 480 x 160 en een 48-knoppig toetsenbord toegankelijk te maken. De specificaties zijn nagenoeg identiek aan die van de Psion Revo Plus: 16MB geheugen, een browser van Opera en een 32-bit ARM-processor met een snelheid van 36MHz. Het maakt gebruik van EPOC 5.01 en heeft een aantal ingebakken PIM- en (mini)Office-applicaties, zoals een agenda, een tekstverwerker die Word en Lotus-compatibel is en een databasetooltje.


De productie van de Rage 128 Pro gaat snel gestopt worden, en de nieuwe kaart voor de low budget markt gaat de op de Radeon core gebaseerde RV100 worden. De kaart moet al deze maand arriveren.

SAN JOSE -- At the Microprocessor Forum here today, a little-known German chip supplier, called Pact GmbH, will announce its first product--a radical multi-parallel microprocessor architecture said to run at speeds of more than 51 billion of instructions per second (BIPS).

With the upcoming "Apollo" processor, Motorola's G4 processor family will be able to join the 1-GHz club, David Bearden, senior member of the technical staff at Motorola's Somerset Design Center, told an audience at the Microprocessor Forum taking place this week in San Jose, Calif.

Microsoft's selection of Western Digital for its much-anticipated video game console underscores Western Digital's commitment to providing its multiple markets with a cost-effective hard drive platform. The company's first value-platform product is WD Protégé™, a single-platter hard drive designed for cost-sensitive personal entertainment and PC markets.
ATI has shown once again that it is the king of the video world, in terms of features, quality and performance, the Radeon is the mark that 3dfx, Matrox and NVIDIA should aim for. For the first time since the 3D revolution took off, ATI doesn't only have to tout their video features, but they can also boast some very high performing gaming frame rates as well. If ATI can successfully follow up the Radeon's release with another hard hitting product, while continuing to improve on their drivers, NVIDIA could begin to feel some serious heat from the company that just a year ago we would've never expected to have come this far.
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