As the release of AMD 's 45 nm processors Shanghai and, more
importantly, Deneb is drawing closer, we are getting a better idea of
what to expect from AMD ’s next generation of CPUs. The HyperT
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 01:55
... 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
...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
...been a while since ATI offered a new version of its
All-in-Wonder graphics/TV tuner card combination. AMD revived the
product series with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, which replaces the still
offered ...
Thursday, June 26, 2008 00:00
...t Nano is a solid
improvement over the C7 CPU and Via continues to its strategy to be
different than AMD and Via by offering a product that is difficult to
compare to potential rivals.
Beijing (...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:01
...e Q6600 core being loaded in such a scenario. If you are looking at a much less powerful CPU, such as AMD ’s Turion 64 X2 2.0 GHz, the numbers were a total CPU load of 60-70% - or 100% of one core. Th...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:56
AMD ’s B3 stepping Barcelona processors appear to be finally on track as the company continues to announce new design wins and new models joining the existing line-up. The company is now offer
Monday, May 12, 2008 09:34
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 ’s aggressive strategy to regain share in the CPU market has shown
some effect in the fourth quarter of last year: iSuppli believes the
manufacturer has posted a slight gain in Q4. H
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:04
...sors with the 2010 Sandy Bridge 32nm processor generation and try to do the trick from the CPU side. AMD is a somewhat silent player in this arena, but the company is actually deeply involved in GPG...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 01:00
...will ring in the end of the front side bus at Intel. The company’s Nehalem follows in the footsteps of AMD 's K8 architecture (Opteron/Athlon 64), which introduced the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC...
Monday, February 25, 2008 13:16
We have been talking about a hidden supercomputer in your graphics card for a while and now that AMD offers double-precision capability in its latest Firestream card we get a first taste how powerful
Friday, February 01, 2008 10:05
Following a significant processor errata (error, or bug), AMD has been forced to delay wide-spread Barcelona shipments until Q1'08. The fix decreases performance greatly, something AMD does
Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:25
...o commercial products for microprocessors have yet been reported by ISi. Early in January, 2006, AMD licensed Z-RAM version one. In December, 2006 they renewed their licensing with Z-RAM G...
Friday, November 30, 2007 08:15
AMD releases an upgrade to support Barcelona's 128-bit SIMD engine, along with algorithm enhancements and optimizations. This will be the first of two major upgrades in the coming year desi
Sunday, November 11, 2007 23:01
...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
...e as many. While that's all fine and dandy, and many companies are headed in that direction, AMD is looking for ways to extend the life of 300mm beyond 2012, and is hoping the industry will ...
Thursday, October 25, 2007 04:30
...acceptance today is the lack of high-end graphics card support. Shuttleworth indicated that with AMD 's recent committment to the open-source community, ATI drivers should be much more stable...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 08:00
...k-tock strategy, that generation two will arrive with even better power saving features. IBM and AMD announced similar findings at the time of Intel's public disclosure, however they will no...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 07:10
...ng Quake IV, but it required an 8-core system to operate at decent frame rates. Still, Intel and AMD have promised eight-core chips within a few years. If we double the price of the quad-c...
Thursday, October 11, 2007 08:16
.... Each ClearSpeed card added an additional 80.64 Gflops per server, and with only 5% more power. AMD and Intel have both invested a great deal of PR capital in conveying the notion that speciali...
Thursday, September 27, 2007 08:30
...e quad-core Nehalems that were in use. Intel representatives made sure that they weren't using the AMD term “native quad-core” when describing Nehalem. Instead, they referred to it as ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 02:10
On September 10, AMD held its biggest ever launch event for Barcelona at The Presidio in San Francisco at 6:30pm PDT. On hand for the 1.5 hour event were several top executives and partners to AMD , a
Monday, September 10, 2007 23:52
Opinion - AMD 's actions in recent quarters reveal a trend we can only describe as: all in. It's a poker term meaning AMD bet it all on Barcelona. But is Barcelona enough? Can AMD make it with
Monday, September 10, 2007 14:30
AMD 's website has posted some benchmark numbers for Barcelona. Does the picture they paint stand up to what the real-world is seeing? Indianapolis (IN) - If you visit AMD 's website and look a
Monday, September 10, 2007 12:32
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
Barcelona is AMD 's latest core redesign with internal changes to achieve greater compute parity with Intel's Core 2 architecture. London (England) - The Inquirer has posted a potential previe
Monday, August 27, 2007 12:13
Sunnyvale (CA) – Henri Richard, AMD ’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, will be leaving the company. Hexus.net first broke the story on and the information has since been confirmed
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 16:05
...us. The reality here is that we currently have two disparate technologies moving forward in x86 space, AMD -V and Intel VT. These technologies do the same basic thing, but they are not compatib...
Friday, August 10, 2007 14:45
... You may have heard of virtualization before. Intel has been talking about it for more than two years, AMD is following its rival. But even if you are deeply involved in Enterprise architecture, an en...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:50
AMD made a very powerful presentation yesterday. No question about that. Anyone sitting in the audience or listening in, at least those who didn't have any reason to believe otherwise, is likely
Friday, July 27, 2007 13:55
There are very few options for AMD other than moving into the offense these days: The company’s chief technology officer today revealed at a meeting with analysts more details about the first F
Thursday, July 26, 2007 13:51
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
...through 2008. Other versions should be nearly identical. I have installed both the x86 and AMD 64 versions and they're identical for installation. The only problem I encountered was tha...
Thursday, July 19, 2007 02:00
...ovide additional floating point capability, have been discussed for some time. Most recently, ATI (now AMD ) released its stream processor card and Nvidia is leveraging its GeForce 8 to make its graphi...
Monday, June 18, 2007 00:01
...n at this year's Computex Taipei 2007 will be the showdown between Intel's 45nm Harpertown and AMD 's Barcelona in the native quad-core server CPU arena .Industry sources noted that AMD ori...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 00:34
Perhaps AMD and Intel should not have abandoned the Gigahertz-race and bunsen-burner processors after all: Scientists from the University of Utah today said that they can convert waste heat into soun
Monday, June 04, 2007 17:14
With AMD scheduled to showcase its new quad-core Opteron processors (Barcelona) at Computex Taipei 2007, Intel also plans to demonstrate its 45nm native quad-core server processors (Harpertown) at the
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 09:14
Microsoft's next big legal endeavor will be to bring down Linux, OpenOffice.org, and others for infringing on a total of 235 patents. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft's next big legal endeavor will b
Monday, May 14, 2007 07:52
AMD has announced their new HD 2000 series of cards. Boasting up to 320 stream processing units and the industry’s first 512-bit memory bus, the cards hope to dislodge Nvidia from graphic
Monday, May 14, 2007 02:52
...controller into the CPU. If that sounds like a familiar concept to you, then your instincts are right: AMD has been using an integrated memory controller for some time now in its Athlon 64/Opteron pro...
Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:05
AMD today announced its RS690 chipset which is not only AMD ’s first-ever integrated graphics chipset solution, but also the first product that takes advantage of technologies from both AMD and
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 23:15
AMD today released its second Catalyst graphics driver for Windows Vista, promising performance gains between 21% and 48% in certain games. Nvidia also has caught up with Vista and recently released
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 14:31
...the x86 microprocessor market, which could be considered the icing on an especially delicious cake for AMD in 2006. Chicago (IL) - Mercury Research today released its annual market share numbers for t...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 21:14
.... Catalyst 7.1 promises a broad range of features supporting the new Vista Driver Model. According to AMD , the driver introduces native support for OpenGL under Vista, providing some performance gain...
Monday, January 29, 2007 20:45
...re, which was released as a 180 nm chip in 2000 (with 42 million transistors). Intel will not counter AMD 's approach to create a native , single-chip quad-core processor and continue to produce th...
Friday, January 26, 2007 23:00
... and both will lure you with new media center devices. Behind the scenes, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD are assembling the core technologies, but the front end is more interesting: HP, Dell and App...
Saturday, January 06, 2007 18:07
...ence (ISSCC). Among the more visible presentations will be a next-generation Cell processor as well as AMD 's quad-core Opteron and Intel's 80-core Teraflop processor. San Francisco (CA) - Integrated...
Thursday, January 04, 2007 20:53
AMD fired up the third stage of a series of announcements this morning and announced a first batch of 65 nm desktop dual-core processors. Almost one year behind Intel, the new X2 family CPUs launch a
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 05:03
It has been a busy week for AMD , as the company unveiled the two-socket dual-core platform Quad FX and showed off its first native quad-core processor to analysts. And the PR frenzy is not over with
Saturday, December 02, 2006 18:37
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