AMD Still 227.3 Rupiah Billion Loss

Processor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) is still a pretty hefty losses during the first quarter of 2014 at a rate of USD 20 million or Rp 227.3 billion sektiar .

Indeed , the loss rate has decreased compared to the same period last year in which the chip maker Intel 's competitors semikondukor suffered a loss of USD 146 million .

Revenue from AMD during the period ending March 2014 was at USD 1.4 billion . Targeting companies in the second quarter revenues of USD 1.442 billion .

AMD managed to improve its financial condition due to the expansion of gaming consoles processors as PC sales continue to decline . The new business is expected to contribute substantially in the coming years through the supply end processor for Microsoft and Sony .

As quoted by Reuters on Saturday ( 19/04/2014 ) , this year AMD also plans to release a chip that requires low power to the server in order to challenge the high-end processor Intel Xeon .

" The road is still long for AMD could be turned to its former glory , but the whole process leading up to it , we see no positive signal is good enough , " the analysis of Ascendiant Capital Cody Acree .

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AMD Takes Home Two Honors in 2007 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

HPCwire, a leading source for global news and information covering high performance computing (HPC), bestowed two awards on AMD in this year’s Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards.

AMD took home the Readers’ Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry for its work with IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory on a hybrid supercomputer based on both IBM/Sony/Toshiba-designed Cell chips and AMD Opteron™ processors. HPCwire gave AMD its Editors’ Choice Award for Best Price/Performance HPC Hardware Solution for the AMD Quad Core Opteron processor.

The awards were announced at the Supercomputing 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Reno, Nev. The HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, a permanent annual feature of the publication, represent an objective snapshot of the entire HPC ecosystem. For the Readers' Choice category, winners are determined by hundreds of readers who responded to an online poll. The Editors' Choice awards are chosen by votes of an advisory group of recognized luminaries, contributors and editors in high performance computing.

Over the last several years, AMD has been a consistent presence on the awards list, most recently winning a spot on the "Top 5 Companies to Watch in 2007." In addition, on the most recent TOP500.org list of the world’s highest performing supercomputers, dual-core AMD Opteron processors powered three of the Top 10 clusters - all systems from HPC powerhouse and long-time AMD technology partner, Cray.

AMD Penang Helps Nurture Young Minds in Science and Technology

More than 50 primary and secondary schools in Penang competed in the recent Science and Technology Carnival 2007 co-sponsored by AMD Penang. Students in the biannual event competed in science and engineering innovation under the categories of mathematics, science, engineering and computer science. Projects and activities included a solar-powered car race, a rocket launching exercise, cooking with nature’s tools and the Eureka energy-efficient beach house."This program is capable of discovering the talents of students in various aspects, such as in scientific research and inventions and the systematic reporting of their findings," said Dato'

Dr. Toh Kin Woon, Penang Education Committee chairman.The carnival also featured exhibitions, information booths and hands-on activities from government agencies and other private sector organizations. University Science Malaysia (USM) showcased exhibits on Astronomy while groups National Science Centre, Sykt F1 In School and Jabatan Alam Sekitar Pulau Pinang supported to make the program a success.Because the nation seeks to raise the capacity for knowledge and innovation while nurturing young minds, AMD Penang has actively supported this event since its introduction in 1990.

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Texas Advanced Computing Center Powered by AMD Quad-Core

AMD is at the heart of what’s expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the world. By the end of 2007, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin will launch "Ranger," with more than 500 teraflops peak performance (a teraflop is a measure of a computer's speed and can be expressed as one trillion calculations per second).

Built by Sun Microsystems and based on more than 15,000 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, Ranger will enable breakthrough science that has never before been possible. To deploy and support Ranger, the National Science Foundation awarded TACC $59 million, the largest award ever from that agency to UT Austin.

Each day, researchers at TACC work on extremely complex problems including earthquake prediction and simulation, climate modeling, weather forecasting, molecular science, nanotechnology and astrophysics. However, some of the largest problems could not be addressed or took too long to achieve useful results due to a lack of computing power. When TACC looked to expand its computing power, Sun came forward with a proposal to build servers that would include more than 15,000 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

With the current TACC resources, researchers have access to as many as 5,000 processing cores, but when the new supercomputer is completed, researchers will have access to more than 60,000 processing cores – a huge leap.

But it’s not just the sheer number of available processor cores that will give TACC an edge. The new microarchitecture of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor performs more floating-point operations per second than previous generations, and with Direct Connect Architecture, improves overall system performance by eliminating traditional bottlenecks. This is a must for high-performance computing, where it’s essential that the technology used can "feed the beast" by moving information quickly from the memory to the processor. "By partnering with TACC, we have been able to contribute to a significant improvement in the resources available to researchers across the United States," said Tommy Toles, AMD Business Development Executive. "By using Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, TACC will not only be able to increase the computing power available, they will also be able to save on cooling and power costs."

TACC’s amazing new supercomputer, built on the game changing AMD64 technology, will allow researchers to look at problems they never dreamed possible before. "We are going to be able to provide a system that has no boundaries in terms of what users are used to," reports Karl Schultz, assistant director, TACC’s high performance computing group. TACC is one of the leading advanced computing centers in the United States, enabling and enhancing groundbreaking research in the sciences, engineering, and beyond. TACC supports computational research in all scientific disciplines, conducts leading-edge research and development in advanced computing technologies, and educates the public and the next generation of researchers about the role of advanced computing in research and society. More information on TACC is available at http://125.161.169.134/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.tacc.utexas.edu.