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1. Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 June 2008

   ... as well as 3456 tri-blades which can deliver 400 GFlops each. Also noteworthy is that Roadrunner was supposed to become the flagship product of AMD’s Torrenza platform, a project which was pitched as ...

2. ClearSpeed's massive FPUs will soon head into space

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 12 September 2007

   ... compute blocks to be added onto a single silicon die, thereby extending the base abilities of the CPU with specialized processing units.  AMD has referred to this as the Torrenza platform, though ...

3. Analysis: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Sunday, 17 June 2007

   ... 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 graphics cards available to general ...

4. AMD's CTO: Intel is an old-school company

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 17 May 2007

   AMD is going through challenging times these days, with enormous losses on the one side and a new quad-core CPU that needs to re-establish the firm’s competitiveness with Intel on the other. We ...

5. Background: What Fusion will be – and what not

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 11 May 2007

   We recently were able to spend some time with AMD to learn more about its upcoming chip technologies. Not surprisingly, one focus was Fusion, AMD’s mysterious processor that will marry graphics ...

6. AMD’s Torrenza evolves into first real world applications

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 29 April 2007

   It has been about eleven months since AMD has revealed its Torrenza initiative, an effort to open up its hardware and encourage third parties to build secondary components, such as accelerators, around ...

7. IDF kickoff: Going after AMD, and beyond

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 April 2007

   ... a floating point accelerator, an update to its 80-core research processor and a new enthusiast PC platform that will house two quad-core processors. Can you spot the AMD angle? Beijing (China) – ...

8. AMD questions current multi-core trend

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 14 December 2006

   AMD chief technology officer Phil Hester voiced concerns over the implications of the trend to integrate an increasing number of similar cores into one package. The company indicated that it could part ...

9. AMD launches "stream processor" accelerator board

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 14 November 2006

   AMD today introduced what it calls the world's first dedicated stream processor. What sounds like a completely new product is in fact based on the R580 graphics processor used in Radeon X1900 graphics ...

10. Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 21 September 2006

    AMD today announced a first wave of companies that are "evaluating" the firm's "Torrenza" platform. According to AMD, Cray, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, IBM and Sun Microsystems "have endorsed Torrenza ...

11. IBM to build Cell supercomputer for DOE

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 06 September 2006

    ... of AMD's "Torrenza" platform. Torrenza promotes an "open" AMD x86 platform that takes advantage of Direct Connect Architecture and the Hypertransport interface. According to IBM, Roadrunner will occupy ...

12. AMD: We won't be another Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 24 July 2006

    With the acquisition of ATI, AMD will have all pieces in place to evolve from a processor manufacturer into a platform company and go head to head with Intel in more markets - especially in the business ...

13. Q&A with AMD VP Randy Allen: How Torrenza will open up the CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 02 June 2006

    Yesterday's announcement of AMD's opening up of its AMD64 HyperTransport CPU connection for OEM development, creates the possibility for manufacturers to remake their hardware not as expansion cards, ...

14. AMD HyperTransport innovation opens up CPU sockets to OEMs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 01 June 2006

    During a quieter portion of today's AMD conference call with analysts, the company introduced an expansion of its HyperTransport-based AMD64 architecture with far-reaching implications. Code-named "Torrenza," ...