The latest cards bring to three the number dual-chip cards released by AMD; the first was the HD 3870 X2. Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday introduced a dual-processor graphics card for gamers that the company claims is capable of more than 2 trillion operations a second.

Along with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, AMD unveiled the slower HD 4850 X2. Both cards, which slip into a PCIe slot on the PC’s motherboard, comprise two HD 4800 series GPUs.

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Delta Air Lines said Tuesday that it would offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by next summer. Continental Airlines had previously announced plans to offer similar service across a majority of its mainline fleet.

Several other airlines either offer or plan to offer a similar service, though on a much more limited number of flights than Delta and Continental.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Struggling to climb back to profitability, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. suffered another setback Friday when the chip maker disclosed that two businesses it acquired in a pricey acquisition were underperforming.

AMD said the businesses’ values would have to be reduced by $880 million. It’s the second time AMD has had to slash the value of businesses it absorbed as part of its pricey — and controversial — acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc.
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Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices released new graphics processors Monday as the two chip makers continued to compete on discrete graphics products while emerging as allies of a sort in promoting the possibilities of GPU computing in the face of CPU giant Intel’s uncertain steps in that direction.

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Intel issued a statement about USB 3.0, a subject threatening to cause a full-blown controversy among several chipmakers. The company also said it would present a paper on its upcoming “Larrabee” graphics technology in August. The Intel statement on USB 3.0 is meant to clarify the difference between the basic USB specification and the “host controller specification”–the latter a point of dispute with rivals Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. The statement also tries to dispel rumors that Intel is “holding back the specification” from others in the industry.

AMD and Nvidia are claiming that Intel is trying to hijack the specification. Intel denies this.USB 3.0 is a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009. It is significant not only because all future PCs and devices will use connectors based on the standard, but also because it will offer 10 times the speed of USB 2.0–used in virtually all PCs introduced in the last few years–or roughly 5 gigabits per second. “There has been a lot of unanswered speculation recently regarding USB 3.0 and Intel’s involvement; I thought it was about time to set the record straight,” Intel’s Nick Knupffer said in a post Wednesday.

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The FTC has subpoenaed the chipmakers to seek information about their customers, including Dell, HP, and Apple. At issue: Intel’s pricing

Score another victory for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in its crusade to sick regulators on bigger rival Intel (INTC). The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into chipmaker Intel and how its conduct affects AMD.

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UPDATE: With headlines this week like “AMD jumps into the netbook game,” it sounded very much like Advanced Micro Devices was making a belated entry into the netbook segment. But this isn’t the case, according to AMD.

An AMD spokesperson said that this photo of a purported AMD netbook is, in fact, just a small notebook from Raon Digital–not an AMD reference design.

“It is a Raon Digital product and will start production at the end of July,” AMD spokesperson Phil Hughes said in response to an email query. “They have two models. One is TL-56 (Turion processor)-based and the other is Sempron 3700-based.” And Hughes said there are already a raft of netbook-like products in the market using AMD chips including the progenitor of this category of small, low-cost laptops, the One Laptop Per Child XO (OLPC) laptop (which uses the AMD Geode LX-700).

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Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) is showcasing its new notebook platform at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan and on Wednesday announced the availability of a new dual-core Turion mobile processor and a new 7-series chipset optimized for mobility as part of the product launch codenamed Puma.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker’s next-generation mobile platform launch comes as AMD’s main x86 rival Intel recently announced that its own highly anticipated new notebook platform, codenamed Montevina, has been delayed from a late June launch to mid-summer due to technical issues with the Intel (NSDQ:INTC) 4 Series Express chipset and a separate certification hang-up the basic Wi-Fi chip included in the newly-branded Centrino 2 platform.

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