Kategorie: Pressemitteilungen

UL Signals Strategic Expansion into Performance Benchmarking Services with Futuremark Acquisition

UL, a glo­bal safe­ty sci­ence lea­der, today announ­ced the acqui­si­ti­on of Future­mark, the mar­ket lea­ding pro­vi­der of per­for­mance bench­mar­king soft­ware. Future­mark, a pri­va­te­ly held com­pa­ny based in Fin­land, deve­lo­ps the world’s most wide­ly used bench­marks for desk­top com­pu­ters, note­books, tablets and smart pho­nes. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Forrest Norrod Joins AMD as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 10/27/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that For­rest Nor­rod (49) has joi­n­ed the com­pa­ny as seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of AMD’s Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom (EESC) busi­ness group, report­ing to Pre­si­dent and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Nor­rod will be respon­si­ble for mana­ging all aspects of stra­tegy, busi­ness manage­ment, engi­nee­ring, and sales for AMD’s EESC busi­ness. He replaces Dr. Su, who has held the posi­ti­on on an inte­rim basis sin­ce July. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Radeon Supercharges Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth With Mantle Graphics API

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 10/24/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today joins Fira­xis Games in cele­bra­ting the release of Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™, which fea­tures day-one sup­port for AMD’s Man­t­le gra­phics API to enable top gam­ing per­for­mance for AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics cus­to­mers. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

GLOBALFOUNDRIES erwirbt IBMs Halbleitergeschäft

ARMONK, N.Y., und SANTA CLARA, Calif., 20. Okto­ber 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) und GLOBALFOUNDRIES haben heu­te eine bin­den­de Ver­ein­ba­rung unter­zeich­net, wonach GLOBALFOUNDRIES plant, das welt­wei­te kom­mer­zi­el­le Halb­lei­ter­ge­schäft von IBM zu erwer­ben. Dazu gehö­ren umfang­rei­ches geis­ti­ges Eigen­tum (IP), hoch­qua­li­fi­zier­te Tech­no­lo­gen sowie Tech­no­lo­gien von IBM Microelec­tro­nics, vor­be­halt­lich der Erfül­lung von regu­la­to­ri­schen Anfor­de­run­gen. GLOBALFOUNDRIES wird zudem für die nächs­ten zehn Jah­re IBMs exklu­si­ver Lie­fe­rant von Ser­ver­pro­zes­so­ren in 22, 14 und 10 Nano­me­ter (nm) Tech­no­lo­gien. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Corel AfterShot Pro 2.1 Brings HDR to Mac and Linux, Adds Support for 17 Cameras

Corel’s Pho­to Editing group has released a new update to AfterShot™ Pro 2, the industry’s fas­test RAW con­ver­ter and pho­to manage­ment soft­ware. Available free to regis­tered users, the 2.1 update intro­du­ces a num­ber of new fea­tures and enhance­ments inclu­ding new HDR tools for Mac and Linux, sup­port for more than 17 new RAW came­ra pro­files, a dra­ma­ti­cal­ly impro­ved High­light Reco­very Tool, and per­for­mance and sta­bi­li­ty updates to enrich the over­all pho­to editing and pho­to work­flow expe­ri­ence. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Appoints Dr. Lisa Su as President and Chief Executive Officer

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that its board of direc­tors has appoin­ted Dr. Lisa Su as pre­si­dent and chief exe­cu­ti­ve offi­cer and mem­ber of the board of direc­tors, effec­ti­ve imme­dia­te­ly. Dr. Su, 44, suc­ceeds Rory Read, 52, who has step­ped down as pre­si­dent and chief exe­cu­ti­ve offi­cer, and mem­ber of the board of direc­tors, as part of a tran­si­ti­on plan. Read will sup­port the tran­si­ti­on in an advi­so­ry role, remai­ning with the com­pa­ny through the end of 2014. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Demonstrates First Network Function Virtualization Solution on 64-bit AMD and ARM Technology

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today demons­tra­ted the first net­work func­tion vir­tua­liza­ti­on (NFV) solu­ti­on on AMD’s 64-bit ARM-based SoC and announ­ced that it is now sam­pling to AMD’s embedded cus­to­mers. The NFV demons­tra­ti­on is powered by a 64-bit ARM-based AMD Embedded R‑Series SoC, code­na­med “Hier­ofal­con,” sup­port­ed with tech­no­lo­gy from two key eco­sys­tem part­ners (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Microsoft gibt ersten Ausblick auf Windows 10

Die Micro­soft Cor­po­ra­ti­on hat heu­te in San Fran­cis­co Win­dows 10 ange­kün­digt und damit einen ers­ten Aus­blick auf die nächs­te Win­dows Ver­si­on gege­ben. In die­sem Zusam­men­hang wur­den vor allem wich­ti­ge Neue­run­gen für Unter­neh­mens­kun­den vor­ge­stellt: Win­dows 10 kommt mit einer erhöh­ten Sicher­heit und erwei­ter­ten Funk­tio­nen für die IT-Ver­wal­tung. Zudem stellt Micro­soft das neue Win­dows Insi­der Pro­gram (WIP) vor. Das WIP ermög­licht Tes­tern eine offe­ne Zusam­men­ar­beit mit Micro­soft im Rah­men der Ent­wick­lung der nächs­ten Win­dows Gene­ra­ti­on, um die­se opti­mal an Nut­zer­an­for­de­run­gen anzu­pas­sen. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

First ARM Cortex- A57-Based Hadoop Demonstration Achieved on AMD Opteron A‑Series Platform

SAN FRANCISCO — Sept. 30, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today will make the first public demons­tra­ti­on of Apa­che™ Hadoop® run­ning on an ARM® Cortex®-A57-based AMD Opte­ron™ A‑Series processor.In a tech­ni­cal ses­si­on at the JavaO­ne™ con­fe­rence to be deli­ver­ed this after­noon by AMD cor­po­ra­te fel­low Leen­dert van Doorn, the com­pa­ny will show how the expan­ding AMD Opte­ron A‑Series ser­ver soft­ware eco­sys­tem now includes Hadoop, the Java-based frame­work for sto­rage and lar­ge-sca­le data pro­ces­sing. In addi­ti­on, Hen­rik Stahl, vice pre­si­dent, Java pro­duct manage­ment and Inter­net of Things at Ora­cle, will join van Doorn on stage to dis­cuss Oracle’s sup­port for AMD’s 64-bit ARM ser­ver archi­tec­tu­re. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD and Synopsys Expand IP Partnership

High­lights:

- Mul­ti-year agree­ment gives AMD access to a ran­ge of Syn­op­sys design IP inclu­ding inter­face, memo­ry com­pi­ler, logic libra­ry and ana­log IP for advan­ced Fin­FET pro­cess nodes

- Syn­op­sys acqui­res rights to AMD’s inter­face and foun­da­ti­on IP, and hires a team of engi­neers from AMD with IP R&D expertise

- The­se agree­ments enable AMD to rea­li­ze ongo­ing engi­nee­ring effi­ci­en­ci­es and focus engi­nee­ring efforts on pro­duct dif­fe­ren­tia­ti­on (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »