AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of
its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core
(9000-series) processors. Six “hidden pins” on the processors
Thursday, June 05, 2008 14:55
...the system used by the Toyota F1 team. Toyota got rid of
its Itanium 2 system and replaced it with an AMD Opteron supercomputer. Zagreb (Croatia) - Hot on the heels of our F1 Supercomputing story, we...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:49
The next executive to leave AMD is Stephen DiFranco, the company’s
corporate vice president of consumer sales and marketing. While there
was no official announcement of DiFranco’s departure,
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:46
AMD is set to send out a first round of pink slips to, as we hear, 510
to 850 people, or 3 to 5% of its workforce this Thursday. Employees in
the firm’s secondary headquarter in Austin will b
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 14:58
... a 10-fold performance increase, the company would still not be able to reach catch up with Nvidia and AMD in the discrete space, Huang said. Jen-Hsun also commented on article by Jon Peddie sh...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 17:12
...s guaranteed to work on motherboards based on Intel P35, X38 and X48 chipsets and with the majority of AMD chipsets for the AM2 platform (AMD 790FX, 780G, 690 G, nForce 590, 570). Nvidia’s nForce 680i...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 13:36
AMD launched three IGP chipsets in China on January 23, including the AMD 740G chipset with ATI Radeon 2100 graphics (RS740), AMD 780V chipset with ATI Radeon 3100 graphics (RS780C) and AMD 780G chips
Thursday, January 24, 2008 09:42
...D and 3D graphics technology of the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices. Freescale will incorporate AMD 's OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0 graphics core technologies in its i.MX applications proces...
Monday, September 17, 2007 16:15
A study commissioned by AMD found that virtually half of Intel’s profits are “extractions” from the blue team’s monopoly in the microprocessor market. Sunnyvale (CA) – A
Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:42
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
According to a report published by the Inquirer, AMD will be introducing its first quad-core processor on September 10. Chicago (IL) – According to a report published by the Inquirer, AMD will
Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:14
AMD announced a new version of its Sempron processor which will be targeted at fanless embedded designs. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD announced a new version of its Sempron processor which will be targ
Thursday, May 31, 2007 09:14
AMD on March 29 announced the availability of its M690 chipset for its Turion64 X2 dual-core mobile CPUs.AMD on March 29 announced the availability of its M690 chipset for its Turion64 X2 dual-core mo
Monday, April 02, 2007 13:02
...hip at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose was impressive, but was it a true comparison against AMD 's discrete graphics cards? San Francisco (CA) - Intel's demonstration of its G965 int...
Monday, March 12, 2007 18:25
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
...and what we can expect for 2007. If you look back at the beginning of this year, you may remember that AMD was dominating the performance charts and what we call today power-efficiency disciplines. In...
Friday, December 29, 2006 19:31
...h Pentium D processors from $585. The Optiplex 740 series is Dell's first business desktop family with AMD (Athlon 64 X2) processors, includes a trusted platform module (v1.2) and is priced from $725....
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 18:02
...as appeared on two South American websites today. At least for now, it appears that the acquisition by AMD could accelerate the rollout of products and ATI. While battling Intel on the low-end, ATI's ...
Friday, October 06, 2006 17:12
AMD may be closer to a Centrino competitor than many may have expected. According to a media report, AMD and ATI may be introducing a notebook platform, code-named "Yokohama," in the fourth quarter o
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 16:40
The battle lines are being drawn between four AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors and four Intel Pentium D dual-core CPUs. On the latest TG Daily charts, these two groups now stare each other squar
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 19:54
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduc
Monday, June 26, 2006 15:00
...e server derivate "Woodcrest" is 125% faster than the current Xeon processor generation - and outpaces AMD 's Opteron by about 60%. ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 15:52
While Intel is busy prepping its next-generation Woodcrest server and workstation processors, AMD sails ahead with a final performance upgrade for its single-core Opteron CPU. AMD claims that the new
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 19:39
...gment: The new processor, in its core a version of the Pentium D 800 series, will go head-to-head with AMD 's dual-core Opteron, so far the only dual-core option for servers and workstations. Intel ann...
Monday, October 10, 2005 19:40
...of multicore processors for multi-processor platforms - and not wanting anyone to forget it too soon - AMD announced this morning the release of its fourth series of three new Opteron series processor...
Thursday, September 29, 2005 21:32
...ange of entry level Solaris x86 systems with the introduction of new servers and workstations based on AMD 64-bit Opteron processors. ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:56
In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, id chief executive Todd Hollenshead talked about the minimum system requirements for Doom 3, which will hit retails shelves on August 3.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 17:37
Figures from market research companies agree that AMD has started to bite into Intel's desktop market share, but to what extent depends on which set of analysts you choose to believe.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004 14:32
...abyte and QDI will begin producing motherboards based on the SiS760 integrated chipset, supporting the AMD Athlon 64 platform. ...
Friday, March 12, 2004 16:25
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD ), in response to Intel's processor price cuts in mid-July, has also lowered its workstation CPU prices.
Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:18
According to The Register, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Media Communications Processor, consisting of a graphics chip and the Southbridge chip, has been sent to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Com
Thursday, February 15, 2001 07:41
Advanced Micro Devices' plans for Athlon-based Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), or multiple CPUs sharing memory, are coming out and The Register is enthusiastic in its review of the company's t
Thursday, October 12, 2000 04:38