AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert, will present at the Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. P.T.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage: http://ir.amd.com

A replay of the webcast can be accessed approximately 24 hours after the conclusion of the live event and will be available for 10 days after the conference.

Google is grabbing all the headlines in the tech-nerd world with its announcement of Chrome OS. Initially aimed at the netbook market, this lightweight operating system relies heavily on "cloud computing". Since a great deal of the processing will be executed on the server side, hardware manufacturers should be able to release inexpensive netbooks that are full featured, thanks to a variety of Google products. The announcement has all kinds of implications for consumers and large corporations. I'm going to take a look at how Chrome OS impacts some major players.

An Apple online store is set to take preorders of new Xserve servers carrying Intel's new Xeon chips, hinting at launch of the devices in the near future. A notice on Apple's Hong Kong online store is offering to take preorders of the Xserve based on Intel's latest Xeon server chips. However, preorders cannot be placed as the link hasn't been activated yet, and customization capabilities for the old Xserve products have been disabled. "Preorder the new Xserve with Intel Xeon (Nehalem)," the Web page states. Apple does not comment on future products, an Apple spokesperson said. It is

El Segundo (CA)  Each chip maker has basically the same business model, which is to sell more chips every day. And at least in this discipline, Intel showed its rivals how this business worked in 2008. Thanks to its Atom processor, the company earned a huge jump in market share during the year, while AMD lost nearly 25% of its 2007 share, according to iSuppli. Anyone in the microprocessor industry has to give Intel props for having the right product in the market at the right time. Atom was right there when the netbook segment became popular and no other company was able to cash in on this trend as much as Intel. The processor shifted Intel™s product mix to the lower end and impacted the firm’s revenue, due the lower prices of the CPU. However, since it is generally believed that Intel is able to produce Atom processors for less than $6 per piece, there is lots of profit margin in this product. The success of the processor boosted Intel’s Q4 2008 microprocessor market share (including x86, RISC and other types of processors) by 3.4