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A Look at AMD's New Gaming APUs
Monday, February 12, 2018 - 3:45pm | 514Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) shares were up Monday after the company announced the launch of two chips chips meant to power gaming PCs. AMD unveiled the new Quad-Core Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G desktop processors, which combine high-performance Radeon "Vega"...
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AMD Volatile On Increased Spectre Chip Vulnerability
Friday, January 12, 2018 - 11:42am | 293Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) is trading down nearly 2 percent after the firm reported Thursday that its microprocessors are prone to two variants of Spectre security flaws, rather than one. While conceding a vulnerability to variant one that's resolvable with software...
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Here's How You Could Be A Pawn In The Cryptocurrency Game
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 8:39am | 478Maybe you’re a skeptic, or maybe you want in but don’t know how. But while you fail to benefit from the bitcoin boom, you may be an unwitting instrument in another’s cryptocurrency work. Cryptocurrency miners have been hijacking consumer central processing units to steal...
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Stifel: AMD's Q3 Wasn't As Bad As It Seems, But Not As Good As Hoped
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 8:31am | 384Investors made it clear that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD)'s third-quarter earnings report and fourth-quarter guidance was weak and disappointing. But that isn't necessarily the case, according to Stifel's Kevin Cassidy, who maintains a Hold rating on AMD's stock with...
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AMD's RX Vega Vs. Nvidia's GTX1080: The Great Rivalry Heats Up
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 2:26pm | 1028The competition in the graphic processing unit market is heating up, with players in the segment striving to one up each other with high-performance chips. For NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), GPU is a major business, with the company deriving about 53 percent of its revenues from the gaming...