AMD stock on the rise - armin - February 01

I don't take things for granted, so the latest few days made me curious about AMD's stock performance. Largely disconnecting itself from the NASDAQ fidgeting, they moved higher on very decent volume scratching the underbelly of $26 as of this writing.

While the stock buyback announcement certainly has a hand in this, it doesn't justify all that movement. Add to that the increasing tightness of Thunderbird parts above 1 GHz in the DIY market, as observed by Dean Kent and JC and you may get an idea what would be a possible reason: the switch to Palomino parts in the high-performance range is going on behind the scenes and TBird inventories begin to run out.

The question remains when an official announcements will come through. As far as I've been able to research, AMD still doesn't plan on any CPU-related February announcements. Of course that may just be the smoke screen. Keep your eyes open :)

Hurray for K6-III - armin - January 30

I just had the sad duty of rebooting my trusted K6-III/400 (64 MB, Voodoo3-3000, Win98SE). Why that is sad, you ask? Well, it had been up for 1253 hours straight (52.2 days) and the operating system had started to flake out.

Considering that the machine ran at 100% CPU load all that time doing Gamma Flux, I think this is both a great statement for AMD processors and the stability of the Gamma Flux client software.

Go K6-III !

Athlon 1300 in March - armin - January 30

Intense staring at birds' entrails predict that the Athlon 1300 will be announced in March and still be a Thunderbird core CPU. Deeper digging offers the prediction that Palomino may be announced in the vicinity of CeBIT 2001 (which starts March 22).

ProcessTree signups - armin - January 29

Knowing that a couple guys from here have signed up themselves at ProcessTree Network using the link down at the bottom of the page I'd like to point out that due to hardware failure some records of signups after December 25 were lost.

If you are one of them, please head over and sign up again so you won't drop by the wayside when paid jobs come up :)

AMD buys back stock - armin - January 29

AMD announced that they are buying back up to $300 million worth of their own stock. This can be seen as a good move at current price levels, the money pouring into AMD and the tightening of the number of shares outstanding will add value to the remaining shares. That again will come in handy in purchases for stock at a later time.

Lies, damn lies and benchmarks - armin - January 26

A friend sent me a very interesting link regarding benchmarks that are skewed to favour certain manufacturers and the benefit of dual processor systems.