AMD wants out consumer electronics market, Intel wants in: The company announced its CE 3100 system on a chip, formerly code-named Canmore, aiming to attract customers in the optical media player, c
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 14:40
...continuation of the company’s Core architecture, a technology that reclaimed the performance lead from AMD and brought a high-flying green team close to a break down. And Nehalem’s technology is witho...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:39
...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
...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
AMD is ready to launch its second assault at Nvidia’s performance
leadership in the graphics industry within three weeks. This time AMD
goes after Nvidia’s flagship cards GTX 260 and GTX 280
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 00:01
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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
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
AMD is kicking off the critical third quarter of 2008 with three new
quad-core processors – two low-power models and a new high-end version
for enthusiast PCs. The company maintains its mains
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 09:44
With AMD 's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the $200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price of its previous generation GeForce 9800 GTX down to $
Friday, June 27, 2008 11:03
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
AMD today partially lifted an embargo that prevented hardware review sites from publishing reviews of its upcoming HD 4850 GPU. Despite previous confusion, it is now confirmed that the GPU will com
Thursday, June 19, 2008 14:03
... into more affordable price regions. Nvidia claims
that the new card will beat its direct competitor, AMD ’s upcoming
Radeon HD 4850, in popular game and physics benchmarks. Santa Clara (CA) – With t...
Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:31
...he pioneers in the floating point
acceleration arena, a battleground that today also includes Nvidia, AMD
and soon Intel as well. Clearspeed’s new CSX700 processor-based add-in
card delivers 50% mo...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 00:00
...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
...nts, most of which target high-end and enterprise computing,
but some in fact have mainstream appeal. AMD ’s ATI division, for
example, unveiled its Firestream 9250 card, based on the upcoming RV770
...
Monday, June 16, 2008 00:36
Amazon.com accidentally put AMD ’s upcoming Radeon 4850 graphics cards
on sale earlier today and thanks to Google’s page cache we now have a
confirmation of a few more technical specifications
Friday, June 13, 2008 22:43
Intel is planning to launch a Core 2 Quad Q8000 CPU series, offering entry-level prices to counter AMD 's triple-core CPUs in the mainstream market, according to sources at motherboard makers. Inte
Friday, June 13, 2008 14:48
...eld CPU to slip into this range, while the Extreme version should cost at least $1000. Meanwhile, the AMD rumor mill has been spinning this morning. HKEPC reports (Xbit Labs) that AMD has cancelled ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 13:07
... The battle for mainstream graphics supremacy will enter a new phase
with month, with both Nvidia and AMD 's graphics unit ATI being expected
to introduce their latest contenders within two weeks. An...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:23
...ng Instinct as well as the upcoming RIM Bold and Thunder are redefining what can be done on a phone. AMD (graphics), Intel (battery life), and VIA (price) are all chasing each other to create the fi...
Friday, June 06, 2008 08:58
Hot on the heels of AMD 's overclocking secret, we can reveal that
Bloomfield and Lynnfield, key processors of Intel’s upcoming Nehalem
family, will indeed feature overclocking capabilities fo
Friday, June 06, 2008 01:00
...h its market presence with a CrossFire micro-ATX motherboard. Unlike all mainstream motherboards with AMD 's 780G or 790GX chipset, this mATX board has two PCIe Gen2 x16 slots, which allow users...
Thursday, June 05, 2008 09:59
We have to look back about two years to find examples of an advantage
for AMD over Intel. The green team has been on a rough ride ever since
Core 2 Duo was launched, but it seems that Puma ma
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 02:01
AMD ’s graphics team has put the finishing touches at its new GPU
generation and actually has begun shipping the new 4850 card to OEM
partners and retailers: The new Radeon series will sell fo
Friday, May 30, 2008 14:27
...iss its originally planned debut date later in June.
Intel has decided to delay Centrino 2, providing AMD with an
opportunity to pitch its Puma platform and Turion Ultra processor. Chicago (...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 13:15
...most secretive product developments today that is expected to put the company head-to-head with Nvidia/AMD in the graphics arena. Larrabee is currently scheduled to debut in the second half of 2009 a...
Thursday, May 22, 2008 09:48
AMD today said that its next graphics cards series will integrate GDDR5 memory. The higher data rates supported by GDDR5 – up to 5x that of GDDR3 and 4x that of GDDR4 – will enable more bandwidth o
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:50
...ut of course we are interested to see what these processors are capable of in mainstream applications. AMD previously demonstrated its stream processors in an application that rendered a user’s hand, ...
Monday, May 19, 2008 12:27
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
TG Daily Exclusive – We previously published several details about
AMD ’s next-generation graphics card lineup and as we get closer to the
launch we are getting more details about the launch d
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 17:48
...hat product cycle, Gateway had thrown out Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 quad-core processor in favor of an AMD Phenom X4 chip. Back then, company representatives assured us that an Intel quad-core would r...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 00:01
...headline is no mistake: The initial group of sponsors includes a
colorful mix of rivals and partners: AMD , Nvidia, Sun Microsystems as
well as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, showing first signs tha...
Friday, May 02, 2008 00:01
...fforts to the next step and
established a R&D partnership with Cray, which has been using
mainly AMD ’s processors for its supercomputers in the past few years.
Expect Cray supercomputers to be ...
Monday, April 28, 2008 15:30
...pects to begin shipping more notebook
processors than desktop CPUs sometime later this year and while AMD may
be trailing this trend a bit, it is on the same path. Of course, this
means that the de...
Monday, April 28, 2008 00:26
Next month will be more important for AMD ’s graphics division than any
other month of this year: The company is set to release the (RV770)
4800-series of graphics cards, including the models
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 14:39
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
The competition between AMD and Intel may appear to have calmed down a
bit over recent months, but the retail market shows every sign that a
new battle has begun: Following the dual-core figh
Monday, April 21, 2008 17:17
Intel’s processor price sheet is one sign of the state of the
competition with AMD . Even though we don’t know what processors go for
behind closed doors, Intel’s official price sheet has been
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:08
Unlike the ATI that we knew before, it appears that AMD ’s graphics
division is running perfectly these days – and ahead of deadlines. Even
though the graphics unit has posted an $8 million lo
Monday, April 21, 2008 01:30
...ernational (MSI) has launched its latest high-efficiency motherboard series – K9A2GM/VM, which utilize AMD 's 780G/V chipsets to provide full HD playback, 3D graphics performance, and scalability and s...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 08:54
One of our readers informed us about very expensive AMD triple-core
processors being sold in the U.S. retail market. The price may be one
surprise but what is even more astonishing is the fac
Monday, April 14, 2008 14:33
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