Hewlett Packard Company will not be using chips made by ARM Holdings Plc when building tablets that will be powered by the Windows 8 operating system. Instead HP will focus on x86 chips. Two of the biggest companies that are building x86 chips include Intel and AMD. Microsoft will be releasing their own ARM-based tablet, which will help ARM Holdings feel less of a blow when losing HP’s business.
Acer Inc., Toshiba Corporation, and Asustek Computer Inc. is rumored to be unveiling tablets that will run on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system next week according to sources with Bloomberg. Acer will be displaying a tablet based on Microsoft Windows 8 at the Computex show in Taipei and Toshiba will showcase a tablet and notebook-style device said Bloomberg’s sources. Asustek will show tablets that have detachable keyboards that are similar to their Transformer computers.
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced that they have acquired SeaMicro for $334 million, including $281 million in cash. SeaMicro is known for having clients like Facebook and Google. SeaMicro makes energy efficient “microservers.” They use low-power chips from Intel and Samsung to perform real-time data analysis jobs by creating a “fabric” of multiple servers and data storage units.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) has poached an executive from Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) to become their new CIO. Michael Wolfe worked at HP for five years with the most recent position being VP for Information Technology. Before that, Wolfe worked at Motorola for 24 years. “Mike has effectively led IT transformations constantly focusing on reducing operating costs and significantly improving business innovation,” stated AMD interim CEO Thomas Seifert. “His considerable talent and experience will help AMD to continue strengthening our IT infrastructure and streamline our business based on our own products and platforms.” [AllThingsD]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) chief operating officer Bob Rivet is stepping down from the company. This is one month after CEO Dirk Meyer stepped down. Rivet joined AMD in 2000 as CFO. Rivet will be pursuing other opportunities. AMD SVP of corporate strategy Marty Seyer is also stepping down for similar reasons. Meyer resigned last month because of a disagreement with AMD’s board of directors. AMD CFO Thomas Seifert is acting CEO while the board is looking for Meyer’s replacement. [InformationWeek]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) CEO Dirk Meyer has stepped down after reaching an agreement with the company board. AMD CFO Thomas Siefert will be filling in Meyer for the time being. Meyer had been working at AMD since 1995. AMD announced preliminary revenue results for the 4th quarter ahead of time too. The company revenue will be $1.65 billion, which is ahead of what analysts are expecting. [CNET]
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) made an announcement today that the next version of the Windows operating system will support the System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, which include ARM-based systems from their partners: NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Texas Instruments. Intel and AMD will continue work on low-power SoC designs that support Windows on the x86 architecture. Below is the full press release:
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At the CES conference this year Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) announced the Fusion line of chips this week at CES. The company started working on Fusion the chips in 2006 after they acquired ATI Technologies. These new chips combine a microprocessor and graphics circuitry on the silicon. “As far back as 2005, we saw that the integration of the CPU (central processing unit) and the GPU (graphics processing unit) was inevitable,” stated AMD General Manager of the products group Rick Bergman.
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