IT SECTOR

October 7, one of the most famous producer of microprocessors - the company AMD - announced its restructuring, which divided it into two companies. One will specialize in the development and design of chips, the second - to release processors. So AMD intends to reduce operating costs and increase their market share. The company, which will release a chip, will be temporarily named Foundry Company. AMD, it will have 44.4% stake. Attachments from AMD it would be technology, intellectual property, patents, manufacturing facilities including two production sites in Dresden and related assets of factories. Headquartered Foundry Company will be located in Silicon Valley in the USA. The remaining shares of Foundry Company will be at the disposal of an investment company Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), established by the authorities of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). Advanced Technology Investment Company promised to immediately invest in Foundry Company $ 2,1 billion, with $ ...

Normally, summer - a period of quiet business activity in the IT-industry, and with the onset of autumn business life has intensified. But looking at the past months, you know that this year no summer slowdown in business, actually, was not. And the question arises: whether and, indeed, now wait a marked recovery? Personally, I have no answer ... Sun eve of change Sun is can be bought one of the world IT-leaders, analysts believe. To promote this can collapsed capitalization companies, as well as reducing costs for large customers «big» servers - is based products Sun. The sharp fall in prices of shares Sun (YTD quotes the company fell by half - from $ 18 to $ 9 per share) sparked renewed old debates about the future of the company and options for the purchase of Sun any of the major players market. Among the most likely buyers, many referred to as technology partner Sun - the Japanese manufacturer's server and telecommunications equipment Fujitsu, which may be interested in acquir...

Pass last summer days. That is about to come autumn, and with it - and the long-awaited revitalization of the entire global IT-business. But then, perhaps, is to warn against excessive optimism. Analysts company Gartner noted that the weakening global economy soon may force consumers to buy fewer electronics. In the coming months, expect widespread decline in sales of computer equipment that quickly affects the producer of microchips. Until this year, sales of PCs and mobile phones stood at a high level thanks to emerging markets (China, India, Russia, South America) that the fuel industry. But Gartner believes that soon, and in these countries will be felt the impact of the global economic crisis. In March this year, experts Gartner forecast changed the overall production of chips, taking into account the decline in prices for memory and the deterioration of the global economy. Thus, if a previously expected increase in annual profits in the IT-industry stood at 6.2%, whereas now it h...

The company is not able to make processors luxury, but a means of calculating. As the leading producers of processors, you can now call? Undoubtedly, nor how many would you have listed, on top of the list are two monster processor industry - Intel and AMD. But even twelve years ago, AMD had chances corporation not to be mentioned - the second line pedestal forgotten now been firmly company Cyrix ... Company history dates back quite far in 1988, when the U.S. city of Richardson, two experts on mathematical coprocessor with high productivity have decided to organize a company that produces those goods in which they best understand. The names of Engineers merchants - Jerry Rogers and Tom Braytman. Both of them to the ground Cyrix worked in the company Texas Instruments. The first product of the new producer of processors - a mathematical coprocessor 83D87, compatible with the architecture x86, - became a hit due to the fact that his performance was one and a half times higher than for the...

Each year, another Intel Developer Forum is becoming one of the most notable events of the world semiconductor industry. Not surprisingly, the eve of the event company AMD is trying to be louder express themselves, diverting the attention of the press and consumers from its competitor spells. Already well led, that it was before the Intel Developer Forum AMD makes loud statements and introduced new products. I recall that the current IDF will be held in San Francisco August 19-21. This year the company has its own information offensive AMD began with news that 45 - nm processors from the company (working title of Shanghai) will soon come to the market and become major competitors CPU architecture Intel Nehalem. Senior Vice President Randy AMD Alain personally told reporters that the supply of Shanghai companies integrators will begin in the IV quarter of this year. CPU Shanghai originally focused on huge market dual servers. It may be a situation where AMD will soon compete in this sec...

Economic crises go its course, but to stop development of the world IT-industry they are still not huge. It is to this conclusion independently of each other have the largest research agency - they recently published their findings. The company Gartner predicts that, on the basis of 2008, the worldwide cost of information technology will grow by 8% and reached $ 3.4 trillion. But since the fall of the dollar, increase spending on informtehnologii this year amount to only 4.5%. With regard to the structure of growth, it would be most pronounced in the sectors of software and IT-services. The cost of software would be $ 408 billion - that means 10% growth. A IT-services sector, according to Gartner, will grow this year at 9.4% - expenses in this area amount to $ 819 billion According to analysts, in part, the increase in spending on the sector can be attributed to the active updating old systems. According to Gartner Vice President of Marketing Joanne Correira, in the next year or two co...

Are held last summer days. That's about to come autumn, and with it - and the long-awaited revitalization of the global IT-business. But then, perhaps, is caution against excessive optimism. Analysts company Gartner noted that the weakening world economy soon may force consumers to buy fewer electronics. In the coming months is expected to reduce the widespread sales of computer equipment that will affect the rapidly producing microchips. Until this year, sales of PCs and mobile phones kept at a high level thanks to developing markets (China, India, Russia, South America), which is heated by industry. But at Gartner believe that soon, and in these countries will be felt the impact of global economic crisis. In March this year, experts forecast by Gartner changed the overall production of chips, taking into account the decline in the prices of memory and the deterioration of the global economy. Thus, if the previously expected annual profit growth in IT-industry stood at 6.2%, but n...

Around a very promising development - controller USB 3.0, characterized by a particularly high speed data transmission - erupted neshutochnye passions. Namely: the largest producers of microchips - the company Nvidia, AMD, Via Technologies and SiS - united and Intel Corporation co-accused in that it deliberately obscures the specification controller USB 3.0 (USB Host Controller). It is, in their view, in order to gain technological advantage and to release new products with the support of the standard before its competitors. Intel pariruet all charges, for large, one argument - that the development of a new version of the controller was the corporation's own initiative. And because deskat, any requirement of disclosure of its specifications at least incorrect. Leaving aside until the point that "near" Intel could cost it a further investigation by antitrust authorities in Europe and the U.S. - and similar charges and is now well in excess. Let us turn to the technological...

This is really "news, which surprised us". The largest search engine Yandex in RuNet investbankami tentatively estimated at five billion dollars…. Founder and гендиректор "Yandex" Arkady Volozh, as well as chairman of the board of directors ru-Net Holdings (one of the shareholders "Yandex") Leonid Boguslavsky refused to comment on these data. According to the media business, such a huge figure was voiced during the competition by the organizer IPO (initial issue of shares) search engine, which is scheduled for autumn this year. I recall that the company "Yandex", the owner of the portal Yandex.ru, was founded in 2000. Yandex, a daily audience of more than 5 million people, ranks second among non-English speaking after Chinese search engines Baidu. Revenue "Yandex" in 2007 reached $167 million Corporation Microsoft, committing bypass maneuver, again taking the "conquest" Yahoo. Quote from a press release dated 18 May: "In ...

The Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) announced that the company AMD (NYSE: AMD) was honoured Climate Protection Award in recognition of active companies to protect the global climate by creating energy-efficient products, planning and management of production facilities, production of educational programs. As a charter member of Climate Leaders Partnership program and a founding member organization of The Green Grid, the company AMD leads the world to energy efficient computation, while be environmentally responsible company. AMD has proved its commitment to protect the climate and awarded for the following achievements: • Reducing emissions: Reducing emission standards greenhouse gases by more than 50%, which exceeds the EPA Climate Leaders set the target of reducing by 40% by 2007 (compared with the level of emissions AMD in 2002) *. In addition, the company AMD, being among the first companies that have joined in 1996 to the programme EPA PFC Reduction Partnership f...

The second-largest worldwide manufacturer of microprocessors Advanced Micro Devices has expanded the list of claims against the market leader - the corporation Intel. In 2005, the company AMD has accused Intel of monopolizing the market. Then these accusations followed a long trial in the United States. And not so long ago by Intel with the filing of AMD is very interested European antitrust office. The consequence of a number of searches in both the European offices of Intel, and its business partners. New charges AMD, set out on pages 2000, suggest that Intel bribe and puts pressure on manufacturers of personal computers, to prevent their cooperation with AMD. The latest statement appeared AMD U.S. companies Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway, as well as Taiwanese Acer, the Chinese Lenovo Group (in 2005 bought a unit for the production of IBM PC) and several lesser-known Japanese manufacturers. Some of them appear in the first. According to AMD lawyer Charles Diamond, "Intel...

Now, at the very end of autumn, the world's most IT-companies show strong enough growth - like most sectors of IT-industry. However, the overall information technology in business environment is quite nervous. This is due primarily to overall economic instability in the world (rising oil prices, falling dollar, the financial crisis in the U.S.). The second "nerviruyuschy factor" - what experts and analysts were not able to predict a number of important developments in the world and tendetsy IT. For example, appears on the market in less than six months after the iPhone a number of similar devices, mostly from producers from South-East Asia. However, keep the general issues and move on to specific events. Last week crisis on American stock exchanges took place on the high-tech companies, the most won Apple. Literally per day value of one share "apple company" fell from $ 190 to $ 153. Thus, the offspring of Steve Dzhobsa together lost nearly 20% of the value of i...