...hreaded quad-core processor (welcome back Hyperthreading) capable of running eight threads. Like AMD processors, the chip will feature an on-die memory controller and built on a monolithic die –...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 19:14
...ufacturing process as a precursor to actual microprocessors. The devices developed and manufactured by AMD , Freescale, IBM STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineer...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:50
Remember AMD ’s promise to return to profitability in the third quarter
of this year? You may be wondering how this will be possible
considering the fact that the company has lost money over t
Monday, August 18, 2008 15:42
... is one of the big topics gamers and graphics enthusiasts
should pay special attention to these days. AMD already demonstrated
Transformers and Ruby Ray-traced demos using pre-rendered and real-time...
Monday, August 18, 2008 10:02
...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
With AMD officially announcing its ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 GPU, the company has not ed that its ATI Radeon HD 4800-series has boosted the company's discrete graphics card market share from 30% to 4
Friday, August 15, 2008 08:43
AMD announced four new “business class” Phenom processors, which
essentially means that these processors are made available for a
platform that won’t change for at least two years and include
Friday, August 15, 2008 00:12
Analyst Opinion - This week I have been spending some time with AMD
listening to an update of their workstation and server roadmap. AMD ’s
message: We are healthy and we are executing on
Thursday, August 14, 2008 00:35
... a massive bandwidth of 600 MB/s. Also not eworthy about Intel’s announcement is the fact that it got AMD to supply a quote for its press release. “The future of computing and consumer devices is inc...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:04
The replacement of faulty graphics chips as well as a much stronger
than expected AMD /ATI pushed Nvidia deep into the red during the second
quarter. The company reported a revenue decline of
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 16:33
...h is promoted as a promotion package for Nvidia graphics cards. The competition between Nvidia’s and AMD ’s graphics cards is getting more intense again and while Intel is still discussing its Larrab...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:57
...8 CUDA parallel processing cores – Nvidia’s new marketing name for the graphic chip’s processor cores (AMD calls its graphics processor units stream processors.) Lenovo said that the W700 can be equi...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:23
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 that were introduced in July of 2006 and helped Intel to regain the processor performance crown from AMD . The new architecture, which initially will be available in quad-versions only, is widely ex...
Monday, August 11, 2008 13:18
...when they walk into a store to buy a new PC. Ever since Gigahertz numbers lost their appeal for AMD ’s and Intel’s marketing whizzes, both companies seem to have been desperately looking for a d...
Sunday, August 10, 2008 14:00
.... There is a technology called Larrabee on the horizon that is
promised to surpass the best that both AMD /ATI and Nvidia will have on
the market in two years. Having been down this path before...
Thursday, August 07, 2008 17:19
...tel this week (Larrabee) and
the expected big News from Nvidia within the next two weeks (x86 CUDA),
AMD is under pressure to match its rivals: AMD is making substantial
changes to its GPGPU softwa...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:59
...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
...for PC gamers as
Intel is publishing its Larrabee paper, detailing the upcoming
x86-compatible cGPU, AMD is hosting its annual CTO Summit in Reykjavik
(Iceland), while Nvidia is releasing its PhysX...
Monday, August 04, 2008 14:44
...e told that there is a possibility of mixing and matching Nvidia cards similar to what’s being done by AMD /ATI (3870 X2 + single 3870), but we'll see if that means users can pair one 9800GX2 with one ...
Monday, August 04, 2008 11:52
AMD pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition
of ATI. Since then, AMD ’s finances have changed colors and are now deep
in the red, the top management has changed, and
Monday, August 04, 2008 00:42
... entirely. Nvidia currently sells 12 different chipset models (MCPs) – the 500, 600 and 700 series for AMD - and Intel-based motherboards. Demerjian believes that these MCPs will remain available and e...
Monday, August 04, 2008 00:39
...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
...y in terms of the smallest chip
structures. Its 45 nm technology is still at least one year ahead of
AMD . But it appears that Intel will have to give up that lead next
year, at least for a few mont...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:55
...s special treatment for that privilege (according to our sources, Apple never negotiated or even asked AMD to buy the green team’s processors.) While it would be a bit of an exaggeration to put Apple ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:58
...enue opportunity of six network computers. As a side not e, Dukker said that Ncomputing is working with AMD to deploy host PCs. He told us that AMD concluded that there is no possible to market a PC wi...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 01:13
...wn a XPS system. Repair will generally require the motherboard to be exchanged, Dell spokeswoman Anne Camd en told TG Daily. She declined to comment on the number of systems affected and the average re...
Monday, July 28, 2008 15:08
...prices the market widely seems to have accepted. However,
it is clear that the company is reacting to AMD ’s aggressive dual-,
triple- and quad-core pricing strategy: Entry-level quad-core
processor...
Monday, July 21, 2008 17:56
... Not surprisingly, even the base Rapture PC isn’t cheap – plan on spending at least about $6500 for an AMD system and at least $7300 for an Intel model. Your budget pretty much determines how expensiv...
Monday, July 21, 2008 12:54
...r. Don’t get too excited about those three cores – it is a chip that can’t be compared to any Intel or AMD CPU, as it was originally developed to run devices such high-end navigation systems in cars. ...
Monday, July 21, 2008 00:01
Analyst Opinion - Intel had a surprisingly strong quarter. AMD went the
other direction and is now taking a number of actions that probably
should have come right after the ATI merger. &
Friday, July 18, 2008 15:18
Just like we previously announced,
leading AMD partners are rolling out custom designs of the new ATI
Radeon 4800 series video cards. Two companies, Sapphire and
PowerColor, are cramming 2
Friday, July 18, 2008 14:38
...efore
the saving move, Asset Smart, is announced. Second, the departure is
perfectly consistent with AMD ’s history. But the question will be: Can
Dirk Meyer repeat the cycle and get AMD out of trou...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 18:03
AMD announced its seventh consecutive quarterly loss. AMD lost $1.189
billion during the quarter, including a $920 million write down of ATI
operations. Dirk Meyer has been announced as new p
Thursday, July 17, 2008 16:01
...dcrest and quad-core Clovertown processors, both of which reclaimed server processor market share from AMD ’s dual-core Opteron CPU, are being replaced with the 45 nm 5400-series chips with Harpertown ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:24
...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
...ption of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies. Other members of the industry organization include AMD , ARM, Chartered, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, TSMC, and UMC. Nvidia di...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 17:05
Intel continues to speed down the 45 nm path, shipping dozens of
millions of processors before AMD will get its first 45 nm CPU into
customer hands. While AMD wanted the 45 nm manufacturing p
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 16:54
...than seasonal. We don’t want to jump the gun here, but if Intel is any indication and our sources that AMD had successful launches with mobile Puma platform and its triple-core Phenom processors are c...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 15:41
...ch more functionality in future PCs and accelerate applications through general purpose GPU computing. AMD is somewhere in the middle, as it can go in both directions. We have little doubt at this po...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 15:01
The first batch of R700 previews hit the
Internet today as AMD lifted the news embargo for a very limited number
of hardware review websites. Some of the spurned sites, like Guru of 3D
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 00:00
...switch to integrated graphics and the system will run much more efficiently. The technology works with AMD /ATI and Nvidia graphics. New wireless chipset, WiMax (almost) and … Turbo Memory! Comple...
Monday, July 14, 2008 21:57
...learned how Nvidia is using its PhysX API to
convert PhysX calculations and accelerate them on a GPU. AMD wasn’t
happy and Nvidia was accused of benchmark cheating. Now there is an
opportunity to g...
Monday, July 14, 2008 17:45
Preceding its Q2 earnings release due this Thursday, AMD today said there will be anot her big ATI write-down. The company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that
Monday, July 14, 2008 13:06
Pricewatch – There is trouble in Nvidialand. AMD ’s new graphics cards
apparently have surprised Nvidia, forcing the company to cut the prices
of its new cards. Sources told TG Daily that Nvid
Monday, July 14, 2008 00:40
It is earnings season again and we are expecting both Intel and AMD to
publish their second quarter results. Neither company released an
unusual heads-up before the release, which leads us to
Friday, July 11, 2008 19:46
...ss, we hope to continue discussions with Nvidia to reach a negotiated settlement.” Earlier this year, AMD settled with Rambus and now is paying royalties. Nvidia decided to do the opposite and head d...
Friday, July 11, 2008 02:43
...en Intel may be able to hit about twice the performance in single precision calculations as Nvidia and AMD achieve today. However, both Nvidia and AMD were able to double their floating point performa...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 14:00
...we were told. DreamWorks so far has been a strong supporter for AMD and heavily pitched its partnership with AMD following the production of Shrek 3 and the intr...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:26
...vidia most likely wants to “take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the latest Havok threat from both AMD and Intel.” He also not ed that he made progress getting his hands on a Radeon 4800 card and ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 00:01
Multi-touch display 
Nvidia rolls out Tegra 
Overclocking:
Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 
