Saturday | 10 January, 2009

Stories about: The Foundry

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    AMD foundry gets U.S. government OK 07/01/2009 11:56:00

    An arm of the US Treasury Department has approved Advanced Micro Devices' plan to create a new foundry company with major investment from the government of Abu Dhabi.
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    AMD rallies in effort to reinvent itself 17/12/2008 12:48:00

    Next year will be critical for Advanced Micro Devices, as the chip company pursues two major initiatives designed to reverse its financial losses and compete better with industry leader Intel.
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    Middle East firm to pay less for AMD stake 09/12/2008 07:30:00

    Hammered by its falling stock price and slumping PC demand, Advanced Micro Devices Monday said it has agreed to cut the price of stock set to be purchased by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Co. In addition, the company said it is taking a smaller stake than planned in the manufacturing operation it is creating with Advanced Technology Investment Co., also based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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    Analysts: Shanghai puts AMD back in the fight with Intel 17/11/2008 08:20:00

    With last week's early release of its first 45-nanometer chip, Advanced Micro Devices has taken a big step toward putting its troubles behind it and giving Intel something to worry about.
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    Analysts praise AMD's move to spin off its fab operations 14/10/2008 07:23:00

    Advanced Micro Devices's move to spin off its manufacturing operations generated praise from analysts and questions from Intel about whether it violates a cross-licensing agreement between the two companies.
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    Intel's lawyers launch probe into AMD's spinoff plans 09/10/2008 10:04:00

    Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of Advanced Micro Devices could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.
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    Analysts: Spin-off puts AMD back in the fight with Intel 08/10/2008 10:22:00

    By splitting off its manufacturing operations into a separate company, Advanced Micro Devices could be on track to become the nimble, innovative company that once had Intel on the run.
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    AMD break-up: two voices from Europe 08/10/2008 08:37:00

    The financial world seems to be falling apart, but Advanced Micro Devices has just landed several billion dollars from two Abu Dhabi investment groups to fund "Asset Smart," a plan to spin off its chip manufacturing operations into a new company, tentatively called "The Foundry Co."
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    AMD to spin off chip fabs to raise funds 08/10/2008 08:06:00

    Advanced Micro Devices plans to split into two companies, one to design chips and one to make them, while two investment funds owned by the government of Abu Dhabi will contribute new capital, it said Tuesday. AMD hopes the move will give it the resources it needs to compete effectively with Intel, which dominates the microprocessor industry.
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    Brocade's Foundry buy will boost Fibre Channel over Ethernet 23/07/2008 09:52:54

    Brocade's pending acquisition of Foundry Networks and its IP network technology will give Brocade a shot in the arm in the area of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), a technology expected to make major data center inroads in the next few years.
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    Foundry, Extreme weigh in on Carrier Ethernet 19/06/2008 09:58:55

    Vendors this week are using the NXTcomm conference to disclose ways in which they're linking Layer 2 metro Ethernet protocols with Multi-procotol Label Switching and Virtual Private LAN Services in order to grow and extend Ethernet across metro and national boundaries.
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