AMD's New Chips

AMD – the Austin Statesman highlights AMD's latest chip launch, Shanghai; The new chip began shipping to computer makers in October and will become the brain of new servers that show up this month. The formal unveiling is Thursday. Shanghai is similar to Barcelona, but there have been dozens of enhancements, including the addition of larger on-board memory caches to spur performance. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/business/stories/technology/11/10/1110shanghai.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=3

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices' new graphics chips are taking market share from Nvidia, a report issued Wednesday confirmed. "AMD has by all accounts exceeded expectations with its Radeon HD 4000 series," according to report issued by market researcher Jon Peddie Research (JPR). CNET.