"DTK Computer Middle East, part of DTK worldwide network of branch offices, a leading brand of personal computers, notebooks and servers, has launched its latest notebook, Presto X55 in the Middle East. The 15.4-inch wide screen notebook comes with an AMD Turion 64 processor or a Mobile AMD Sempron and is bluetooth enabled." Read more at Financial Mirror.

"Today AMD announced the availability of the AMDGeode LX EPIC Reference Design Kit (RDK). This RDK will helpdevelopers quickly and efficiently create low-power, high-performancesingle board computer (SBC) products, enabling faster time to market.This versatile, industry-standard design supports a wide range ofrugged industrial SBC applications including data acquisition, videoprocessing, point-of-sale terminals, telecommunications, globalpositioning satellite (GPS) devices and motion control." Read more at Finanzen.

"AMD is further enhancing its channel program, part of its assault to win share from Intel in the commercial space." Read more at Electronic News.

"AMD has been performing very well in terms of delivering new products to the masses as well as ensuring that shipments are on time. With regards to processors and platforms, AMD is now in a position where it can diversify at its own pace and not have to be in Intel's shadow." Read more at Daily Tech.

"AMD's gains at the expense of its much larger rival Intel have received wide coverage, but it's not all about server sales by big names like HP and Sun, or AMD's stunning surge in desktop sales at the retail level." Read more at Internet News.

"Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. , the world's fourth-largest contract chipmaker by revenue, is expected to get a revenue boost in the second half as orders from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. kick in, analysts said." Read more at Yahoo Finance.

"AMD has finally broken the 3 GHz barrier, in the form of an Opteron manufactured at their newest fabrication plant (dubbed "Fab36"). The CPU will be launched on the same day that AMD will announce their 65 nm plans in Prague." Read more at NeoSeeker.

"When Apple announced in June 2005 it was planning to transition its Macintosh computer line to Intel-based processors, the entire Apple community was aghast: a move away from PowerPC would be a historic turning point for the company and its flagship computers. But a tiny portion of the Macintosh community was aghast for different reasons. They were thinking: "Intel processors? What about AMD?!" Well, today at a press event in Mountain View, they got their answer." Read more at TidBITS.

"HP Middle East today celebrates more than a decade of providing unmatched variety, quality and value in computing technology with the introduction of new AMD processor-based products for business customers." Read more at AME Info.

"By 2008 a Cray supercomputer comprising almost 24,000 quad-core Opteron processors could become operational at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This the head of the Supercomputing Agenda of the Department of Energy-funded ORNL Thomas Zacharia announced on the occasion of the conference High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-USA). " Read more at Heise.

"ABIT PRACTICALLY INVENTED the enthusiast-oriented motherboard genre, but lately, questions surrounding the company's finances have overshadowed its actual products. Fortunately, Abit's financial woes appear to be behind it, as a recent merger with USI promises to deliver the company from what even it admits have been trying times. It will take more than just a merger to return Abit to the top of the enthusiast market, though. Abit first became popular among enthusiasts because its boards performed better, overclocked higher, and offered more unique features than the competition. If Abit is to return to grace, its boards will have to do so again, this time against even more refined rivals." Read more at Tech Report.

"FSMLabs, a mission-critical software developer, announced that it has completed weeks of rigorous performance testing on the IWILL H8502 high performance server testing FSMlabs' RTCore technology and is obtaining exceptionally impressive performance on the 8-way 16-core AMD Opteron system. The combination of FSMLabs' hard real-time RTCore and off-the-shelf enterprise class BSD and Linux operating systems is designed to service the extreme demands of applications with requirements for both true deterministic response and heavy compute loads. These applications include machine-in-loop simulation, real-time 3D display, time-critical manufacturing and industrial control, QoS-sensitive communications, and guaranteed transaction times in financial services." Read more at PR Newswire.

"What are the changes in the IT landscape? How can resources be used for competitive advantage? How does an organisation innovate? How is the IT user changing?" Read more at Economic Times.

"In direct competition to Intel's Viiv, home/media entertainment platform, AMD has been quietly developing its own version - AMD LIVE! The technology is to be based on a set of existing and upcoming technologies that are available or will be soon. AMD has divided LIVE! into two distinct systems: a home entertainment oriented computer and a regular desktop computer. These PCs will be built on dual-core chips and 64-bit architecture. The 64-bit dual core Athlon X2 processors, released by AMD in mid-2005, will power the new PCs. To go further AMD has already secured Vista Premium certification for its Live! Programme" Read more at Money Control.

"NCS Technologies, a leading provider of servers, internet appliances, notebooks, desktops and industrial computers today announced that it has expanded its OEM Agreement with BlueCat Networks. Under the terms of this Agreement, NCS will provide OEM manufacturing services for BlueCat's Proteus 5000, a new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based OEM server appliance. NCS already manufactures BlueCat's award-winning line of Secure DNS and DHCP appliances, the Adonis 1000, Adonis 500 and Adonis 250." Read more at Finanzen.