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John Morris

John Morris
John Morris is a former executive editor at CNET Networks and senior editor at PC Magazine. He now works for a private investment firm, which may at any time invest in companies whose products are discussed in this blog, and no disclosure of securities transactions will be made. No investment advice is offered in this blog. All duties are disclaimed.

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John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.
  • AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal

    By John Morris | November 14, 2008, 1:57pm PST

    Lost in all of the (inaccurate) commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company’s product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and...

  • AMD's 45nm Shanghai gets official

    By John Morris | November 13, 2008, 8:00am PST

    AMD officially introduced its first 45nm processors today. Compared to its existing 65nm AMD Opterons, the new quad-core server processors code-named Shanghai, will offer better performance and...

  • Intel's Core i7 gets put to the test

    By John Morris | November 3, 2008, 11:21am PST

    Intel won’t announce its new Core i7 chips until later this month, but the first real reviews are popping up all over the place today. Based on the early previews, I expected to see good...

  • Samsung says it is no longer interested in SanDisk

    By John Morris | October 22, 2008, 7:52am PDT

    Samsung has abruptly dropped its $5.8 billion bid for the memory card-maker SanDisk. In a letter to SanDisk’s board, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee wrote that the recent quarterly...

  • Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November

    By John Morris | October 11, 2008, 5:40am PDT

    Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999),...

  • AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created

    By John Morris | October 7, 2008, 4:44am PDT

    AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD’s advanced processors. The new...

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