AMD told analysts yesterday that Phenom II X4 would launch at CES 2009 in January. This Shanghai-equivalent desktop product of the Deneb core, will serve as a launching platform for AMD 's new industr
Friday, November 14, 2008 06:10
Opinion – AMD ’s 2008 Financial Analyst Day, held yesterday, saw a much
more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate,
there is a fantastic graphics chip lineup, a new
Friday, November 14, 2008 00:11
...nst it
The authors indicate that existing exploit counter-measures, such as the "No Execute" bit in AMD and Intel which typically prevents altered memory regions from being used as program instruct...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 09:16
AMD has not yet found an effective way to slow its market share decline
in the x86 CPU market. According to new market estimates, AMD currently
has a 17.7% share, while Intel is at 81.2%. Chi
Friday, October 24, 2008 19:41
...y independent research report,
that claims that eutectic solder bumps, which are used for example by
AMD ’s ATI unit, may live much longer than high-lead versions. Of
course, switching to eutectic i...
Monday, September 29, 2008 00:09
...onable levels again. It is where Dunnington is most
impressive at first sight, but most vulnerable to AMD ’s attacks. And
besides its high power consumption, AMD claims that the 6-core does not
scal...
Friday, September 19, 2008 00:01
...architecture will have a special
place in Intel’s history. Core reclaimed the performance crown from
AMD , it put Intel on the power-efficiency track and it brought the
first quad-core processors in...
Monday, September 15, 2008 20:09
AMD is getting itself into position to announce a spin-off of the
company’s manufacturing business into a separate company. An analyst
report this morning suggested that AMD is set to release
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:23
...Turbo Boost and traditional will be “almost as good as having a second graphics card.” Boy I bet AMD and Nvidia will love that comment. Piednoel told us later what he meant, "In the case of 3Dma...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 00:05
...s Tolapai and new partners such as Dreamworks. IDF’s marketing machine
typically buries anything from AMD , but this year, AMD is reverting to
a strategy from the past: AMD is setting up its camp in ...
Friday, August 15, 2008 17:10
Hector Ruiz’ time at the AMD as we know it today is coming to an end.
Ruiz recently stepped down from his role as CEO, but kept his position
as chairman of the board with the purpose of launc
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 00:01
...s, developers suddenly will have a choice (we leave ATI’s stream processors out of consideration since AMD still has work to do to create a mainstream appeal for its stream processor cards, work on it...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 00:01
...res will Larrabee have and how will those cores compare to discrete graphics offerings from Nvidia and AMD /ATI? We don’t know for sure, but we received some hints. According to Intel, the idea of Lar...
Sunday, August 03, 2008 23:32
...m, weighing just 13.1 ounces and measuring 1-3/16" in height. VidaBox says the PicoPC is powered by an AMD Geode LX800 processor and offers up to 32 GB of optional solid state storage for loading in y...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:28
...g applications, there is a good chance that you are still familiar with this brand, even if Nvidia and AMD (ATI) are dominating these market segments and there are very few niches left for Matrox to c...
Monday, June 30, 2008 15:48
...on following this controversy was received as being rather doubtful. In the most case of accusations, AMD claims that Nvidia has been fiddling with the 3DMark Vantage benchmark. Just couple of hours ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 16:02
AMD ’s Radeon 4800 series launches a bit later than originally expected,
but AMD promises a huge jump in performance, especially in number
crunching horsepower: The Radeon 4870 delivers 1.2 TF
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 09:31
Opinion – AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the
massive horsepower hidden in the company’s graphics card. A second
generation cinema, could the result, merging convincing c
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:43
...puting (HPC) applications are likely to see several new technologies this week. In the hardware arena, AMD already announced its 1+ TFlop GPU earlier today and Nvidia is following with a GT200 based G...
Monday, June 16, 2008 08:29
...to put a SSD array directly onto a Tesla GPGPU card and eliminate the need for a motherboard and Intel/AMD CPUs. Indeed, applications of this "jack of all trades" chip with a ridiculously small TDP ca...
Monday, June 02, 2008 04:00
There is not a whole lot coming out of AMD that can get you excited and
there is a good chance that the company’s latest pitch, which does not
even include a new product, may cause little mor
Sunday, May 18, 2008 23:01
...new XPS models and marketing them, it would be a rather strange decision to drop the whole line. Anne Camd en, PR manager for the XPS series, responded to the speculations in a blog post, writing that ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 14:20
Redmond (WA) – Microsoft’s latest service pack for Windows XP is causing some headaches for AMD -powered HP machines. Service Pack 3 was recently released to Windows Update and some HP owners ar
Monday, May 12, 2008 07:34
AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and
dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be
manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 15:04
... Instead, this chip was positioned as a competitor against embedded versions of Intel’s Core 2 Duo and AMD ’s Athlon X2 processors. “Because the 1682M achieves dramatically better performance...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 13:16
AMD is serious about winning back market share in the mainstream
desktop computing segment from Intel – and it has become clear that
AMD ’s strongest weapon will be triple-core processors. Tod
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 08:35
... painful flash business and fabs that are producing
lots of 45 nm processors. However, if compared to AMD , Intel is
increasing its advantage every day and is inflicting damage on AMD ’s
most profita...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 18:24
...al integrated memory controllers and Quickpath interconnects something which Intel says is faster than AMD ’s HyerTransport technology. The silicon seems to be progressing as the world’s first de...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 05:09
...nchmark as there aren’t many results for common processors available. The organization, however, lists AMD ’s 6 watt 1 GHz Geode processor with a score of 30.2 as well as Transmeta’s discontinued 1 GHz...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
...s; the L5410 is priced at $320. Prices for the L5310, L5320 and L5335 remain at $209, $256 and $316. AMD , by the way is offering its Barcelona HE versions at a 65 watt TDP rating, while claiming tha...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:21
...f that explores the opportunity of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integra...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 18:29
AMD today announced CrossfireX, a multi-GPU technology that will allow users to run up to four graphics cards within one system. CrossfireX will bb officially supported with the release of the Cataly
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 13:11
AMD is ramping its 45 nm processors and visitors at the CeBIT tradeshow have a chance to see samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at their first public demonstrat
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 08:00
... companies are taking
notice. At this year’s Game Developers
Conference, arch rivals like Intel and AMD are putting aside their differences
to wage war against consoles.
San Francisco (CA) – G...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 02:28
...ome critics were counting Nintendo out of the console race for good. Or look at Apple, the whole Intel/AMD scenario or HP in the PC arena. Sure, HD DVD has a long way to go to re-establish itself, bu...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:45
...ents ended up at about 1.1 million cards during Q3 2007, raking in $338 million of revenue, mainly for AMD and Nvidia. According to the market research firm, Nvidia currently holds an 86% share in the...
Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:52
Santa Clara (CA) - AMD 's CEO Hector Ruiz was speaking to EE Times' author K.C. Krishnadas on AMD 's plans for their future. In the brief interview, Ruiz indicates very clearly that AM
Friday, November 30, 2007 14:10
AMD has just released the November update of its Catalyst driver package. The new version does not deliver any features, but focuses on improvements for the games Bioshock, Call of Juarez, Doom 3, Fab
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 14:12
...d USB 2.0, what features does this device bring to the Mac? Read on... Santa Clara (CA) - Today, AMD announced a new TV Wonder for the Mac. The TV Wonder 650 Combo USB provides two high-de...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 14:16
...station graphics cards – as well as complete ClusterinABox workstation systems that are based on AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and come with either two or four Tesla cards in one or two d...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 09:40
...t Intel has the edge right now – and why he believes Intel will keep it. Of course, that brought AMD into the discussion as well and Eden wasn't shy commenting on AMD 's outlook. ...
Friday, September 21, 2007 14:40
Analyst Opinion – We have covered the launch of AMD 's quad-core Opteron CPU extensively and talked about the good and the bad of the product introduction. What we haven't talked about a
Thursday, September 13, 2007 14:24
...nbsp; The notebook is an Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi with a 17" display and is powered by a single-core AMD Turion processor. It originally came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed, though ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:30
AMD today announced what the company calls the "most advanced x86 processor) as well as the first "native quad-core processor". Code-named Barcelona, the quad-core Opteron will be ship
Monday, September 10, 2007 09:39
...ctober 1. Similar to Dell's XPS, the Blackbird can be configured with high-end hardware, including AMD (X2 6000+) or Intel processors (Core 2 Duo 6750 – Core 2 Extreme QX6850), two graphics ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 19:00
...often single-thread limitations, hardware advancements can make the biggest difference in performance. AMD has released a new extension for x86 hoping to address at least part of that. Santa Clara (CA...
Friday, August 31, 2007 09:52
At an AMD organized event to promote its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics products in Taiwan, the GPU maker reiterated that the recently discovered issue which has lead to defective Radeon 2600 and
Thursday, August 02, 2007 02:15
AMD has reported a $600 million dollar loss for the 2nd quarter ending June 30th 2007. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD has reported a $600 million dollar loss for the 2nd quarter ending June 30th 2007.&
Thursday, July 19, 2007 16:06
AMD has announced the imminent arrival of its HD 2400 and 2600 mainstream graphics cards. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD has announced the imminent arrival of its HD 2400 and 2600 mainstream graphics c
Thursday, June 28, 2007 09:49
...h an insane switch with up to 3456 ports. Each full-sized rack can contain up to 768 Ultrasparc, AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon cores. Each blade within the core can have up to 64 GB of RAM. T...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:21
Overclocking:
Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 