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1. AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 24 March 2009

   The journey from Barcelona to Shanghai to Istanbul is 11,057 miles as the crow flies. Still, AMD has recently demoed a video showing that the migration across these three destinations takes only a few ...

2. AMD ready to demo Havok physics on its graphics cards

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 23 March 2009

   About nine months ago, we learned that AMD was partnering with Intel acquisition Havok to enable physics acceleration on its graphics processors. Now it seems that the company is ready to show what ...

3. Nvidia demonstrates interactive real-time ray-tracer

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 18 August 2008

     Ray-tracing 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 ...

4. First USB 3.0 demos at IDF next week?

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 13 August 2008

   ... – 4.8 Gb/s, which translates into a massive bandwidth of 600 MB/s. Also noteworthy about Intel’s announcement is the fact that it got AMD to supply a quote for its press release. “The future of computing ...

5. Nvidia touts physics, but financial trouble ahead

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 12 August 2008

   ... the PhysX of your hardware, you can now simply download Nvidia’s first “GeForce Power Pack”, which is promoted as a promotion package for Nvidia graphics cards. The competition between Nvidia’s and AMD’s ...

6. IDF Fall 2008: Intel un-retires Craig Barrett, AMD sets up anti-IDF camp

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 11 August 2008

   ... successor of the Core 2 Duo and its derivates 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 ...

7. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 14 July 2008

     Interview - A few weeks ago, we 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. ...

8. AMD shows off ray-tracing tech on YouTube

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Thursday, 03 July 2008

   San Francisco (CA) – AMD has published two YouTube videos that show off its voxel-based rendering technology.  The videos were released by AMD’s company blog, AMDUnprocessed, and showcase the 3D ...

9. Do we really need Cinema 2.0?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 17 June 2008

     Opinion – AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower hidden in the company’s graphics card. A second generation cinema, could the result, merging convincing cinematic digital ...

10. AMD demos 45 nm processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    AMD is ramping its 45 nm processors and visitors at the CeBIT tradeshow have a chance to see samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at their first public demonstration. ...

11. Ray tracing to kill off the GPU? Intel thinks yes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 11 October 2007

    ... a system.  Real-time demos have been shown running 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 ...

12. IDF Fall 2007 Wrap-up

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    ... Eden took the opportunity to explain why he believes that Intel has the edge right now – and why he believes Intel will keep it. Of course, that brought AMD into the discussion as well and Eden wasn't ...

13. IDF Day 1: Penryn showcased, Nehalem revealed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 18 September 2007

    ... He then held up a wafer showing wide, native quad-core Nehalems that were in use. Intel representatives made sure that they weren't using the AMD term “native quad-core” when describing ...

14. Midway working on first Blu-ray movie/PS3 game combo disc

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 18 May 2007

    The PS3 version of the multi-platform title Stranglehold will come with something extra on it - a full-length feature film in high definition. Chicago (IL) - The PS3 version of the multi-platform title ...

15. 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 ...

16. AMD demos 8-core Agena FX enthusiast PC, stream processing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    AMD is getting more aggressive in discussing technologies that are cooking in the company’s labs. What we learned today is that Agena, the firm’s upcoming desktop quad-core processor in fact ...

17. Intel's quad-core rings in a new era of enthusiast systems

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 02 November 2006

    ... to judge how well two dual-core Xeons will perform against Kentsfield and how well AMD's 4x4 platform (which will rely on two dual-cores as well) will compete with Kentsfield, Valve provided some indications ...

18. AMD demos virtualization with "next-gen" Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 April 2006

    Following a developer preview at the Novell Brainshare Global 2006 conference two weeks ago and a presentation in San Francisco behind closed doors in early March, AMD today unveiled its upcoming processor ...

19. Analysis: Can Merom return Intel to the performance driver's seat?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 08 March 2006

    ... unexpected. But does this mean Intel is ready to take back the performance trophy from AMD? San Francisco (CA) - Yesterday at the Intel Developers' Forum, the company released the first wave of details ...

20. CES 2006: Powerline networking smackdown could get nasty

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 04 January 2006

    ... up Samsung, AMD, Corinex and ST&T for dog-and- ponies featuring DS2 adapters. As for the HomePlug AV team, Intellon is leading the charge with reference design demos based on its INT6000 that was announced ...

21. AMD demos Alchemy-based PDA running Linux

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 06 August 2003

      Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is showing off a reference design for a PDA (personal digital assistant) based on its Alchemy Au1100 processor running Linux at the LinuxWorld Conference ...

22. Dell Demos Itanium 2 Server

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 25 April 2003

    ... an Itanium 2 server. Itanium 2 is a 64-bit processor that uses an instruction set different from 64-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computing) processors or 32-bit processors from Intel and AMD. While ...

23. Intel demos 2GHz P4

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 25 April 2001

    ... chips in Q3, when Pentium III prices will be cut by as much as 44 percent. Accordingly, the 1GHz Pentium III will be reduced to $401 from $722. No information is yet available on the AMD chip price. For ...

24. AMD demos 1.5GHz Palamino

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 23 March 2001

      At the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, Advanced Micro Devices not only introduced the 1.3 and 1.33GHz Athlons already extensively reviewed by Tom's Hardware, the company unveiled a 1.5GHz ...

25. AMD demos 1GHz-plus Athlon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 February 2000

      AMD has beaten rival chip maker Intel to the punch by showing off an upcoming 1GHz-plus next-generation Athlon processor. AMD has beaten rival chip maker Intel to the punch by showing off an upcoming ...