AMD launches series of chips that get it into low-power laptops and tablets

Advanced Micro Devices is launching two new families of mobile chips today for faster and more power efficient laptops.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD wants to become more competitive with its larger rival Intel, and it is doing it by creating all-in-one …

AMD launches quad-core embedded chip for smart TVs and set-top boxes

Such chips will eventually enable Surround Computing, where the computer will fade into the background.

AMD CEO foresees ‘choppiness’ for PC sales for first half of 2013

AMD says it gained market share in a part of the U.S. retail laptop chips market.

AMD’s Trinity combo processors aimed at do-it-yourself PC builders and gamers

The new AMD chips, priced from $53 to $122, combine graphics and computing functions on a single chip.

AMD contends its split-personality PC brains are better than Intel’s

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is introducing a new generation of chips that combine graphics and processors on a single integrated circuit. Code-named Trinity, the new chips are supposed to stop Intel from dominating the consumer Ultrabook laptop and all-in-one desktop …

Under new CEO, AMD will launch processors for tablets this year

Advanced Micro Devices said at its analyst meeting today that it will ship its first chips designed to provide the processing and graphics power for tablet computers.

Rory Read (pictured), chief executive of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD, was appointed the new …