AMD is going strong in its battle against Intel, and is track to meet their projected market share. They hope for 30% at the end of the year. AMD currently has a 21% market share after 17% last year.

AMD is having a good ol' time releasing stuff lately. The 1.4GHz chip has just been announced as releasing and you can check out the articles and benchmarks at the usual places. Tech-Report , GamersDepot , Fullon3D , Tweak3D.

Use the force AMD, use the force! AMD's press release about their MP platform quotes Star Wars: Episode 2 producer Rick McCallum who mentions that AMD computers for the pre-visualization work on the movie. Neato? Thanks O'doyle, who saw that at TheForce.net.

AMD finally has dual-cpu up and running and you can read all about it and have all the benchmarks you can handle at most of the hardware pages out there. Have a look at TomsHardware , AnandTech , CPUReview ,  AcesHardware for starters. Here is some crazy stuff from Anand:

Each Athlon MP gets 2.1GB/s of bandwidth to/from the North Bridge in a 760MP system.  Let’s take a two-processor 760MP system for example with two Athlon MPs running at 1.2GHz.  Since all Athlon MPs run at the 133MHz double pumped FSB, the effective clock of the FSB is 266MHz.  Multiply the 266MHz effective frequency of the bus by the 64-bit bus width and you get the bandwidth available to one processor in Gigabits per second; dividing by 8 results in our 2.1 Gigabytes per second figure

So is it fast? Well it's a bit of a tossup compared to the Intel dual systems but it's certainly the fastest thing AMD has ever released and sure as hell cheaper than buying a Xeon. I'm not gonna trust running a server on one of those things just yet though...

AMD is getting ready to announce their spanking new 1.4GHz chip at the upcoming trade show in Computex happening in Taiwan. More than likely the chip will be slightly faster than current chips and go for a slightly higher price. It's a new CPU.

AMD is launching the Athlon 4 today, as a mobile chip to compete with Intel. The Athlon 4 will be launched at 1Ghz, and the new Duron will be running at 850mhz. The Athlon4 1Ghz will just be $425 compared to Intel's $722 for a 1GHz Pentium3, so hopefully we should see cheaper, faster notebooks. AnandTech has also posted a review of the thing and of course he gives us the skinny on the new technology involved.

AMD has chosen a name for their upcoming next-gen chip and as a little snip at the Intel guys they are going with the name "Athlon 4" to go head to head with the Intel Pentium4 chip.

The Inquirer is reporting that AMD will be releasing its Dual Athlon platform on June 4. Several mobo makers have got products ready to run the Palomino CPUs. Thanks Stomped.

The Inquirer is reporting that AMD has confirmed price cuts today. Soon you should be able to pick up a 1.33Ghz Athlon for around $183. That's like, damn cheap. Other prices can be found on Chip.de. Saw that on Stomped.

A few people have pointed the way to this article on CNET with word that AMD's next-gen CPU will be about the same size as their current ones. Which doesnt sound surprising by itself but when you look at the Intel P4 which doubled in size compared to their P3 then you might say "coolbeans?"

If you're thinking about upgrading your AMD processor, just wait a little while longer as AMD will be cutting prices come April 30. Although there's no new price info the cuts will probably shave a good amount off from the current price.

AnandTech has posted a revised review of the VIA KT266, the latest DDR ram chipset for AMD platforms. Compared to some other sites, the KT266 at AnandTech had showed very poor performance. This was due to an old BIOS and a transistor error which have been corrected for this new review.

Over at AnandTech is a review of the VIA KT266 DDR chipset, VIA's offering for the AMD platform. As usual there are all kinds of memory bandwidth and game benchmarks. Looks like right now the KT266 doesn't offer too much of improved performance to be worth the price tag.

The Inquirer is reporting of the latest AMD processor prices. They are getting silly cheap. Thunderbird 750 for $95, and the 1.3Ghz Tbird for a mere $220. Read the news update for the rest of the prices. Wow.

CNet has a new article about the HyperTransport that AMD developed with API NetWorks (Alpha Processor). API has now created the chip containing this technology. Many companies have already expressed interest in this new PC communication tech, with Intel far behind with their own PCI replacing technology.

AnandTech has a review of the new 900mhz Duron processor, also including an updated AMD roadmap showing plans for the new processors the coming months.

AMD is hard at work on their next-gen CPU as they have been for quite a while. Guess what though, it's getting close! The Palomino CPU will show up in mobile units first, and then hit the desktops at 1.5GHz and move on from there.

The Palomino core will first make its appearance in the 1GHz mobile version, which will ship in major notebook makers' products starting in June. [...] The changes between current processors and the Palomino design mainly center on refinements to the limiting components of the pipeline, which will allow it to be introduced at 1.5GHz and go up from there.

Cool, June isnt that far away is it?

The AMD 1.33GHz Thunderbird has made its way out.. You can check out some articles at AMDMB , AcesHardware , AMDZone , TomsHardware , FiringSquad , and AnandTech

There is an interview with AMD's Mark DeFrere on Got Apex. GA talks to the AMD employee about the HyperTransport technology, notebook plans, possibility of DDR ram in the notebooks, the 760MP chipset and a whole lot more.

According to The Register, AMD's 760MP chipset won't be debuting until the end of the second quarter of this year. The 760MP allows multiprocessing on Athlon platforms.