While Intel is making full use of the bragging rights that come with a new Xeon Phi coprocessor collection and the strongest ever supercomputer, AMD is making some noise of its own.
Not much though. Unlike on some previous occasions, when it was its CPUs, not Intel's, that led the charge, AMD doesn&#... [read more >>] The 2013 edition of the International Supercomputing Conference is now underway, which means that Intel has a new range of products to offer its existing and possible future HPC customers.
Before we speak about the newest top supercomputer, some context is needed: Intel has introduced the Knights Landing ... [read more >>] One would think that a few more months would pass before Intel shared information about a CPU collection scheduled for release in 2014, especially since the predecessor of that line has yet to come out itself.
Nevertheless, the Haswell-E series of high-end central processing units has been detailed by the... [read more >>] About a week ago, we reported on a rumor that Advanced Micro Devices was about to release a central processing unit with a clock frequency of 5 GHz. Now we are here to tell you all that the rumor was true.
In fact, the rumor was just half of it. FX-9000 stands for a line of CPUs, not just one processor. T... [read more >>] Having won the hardware contracts for the latest Sony PlayStation 4, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox game consoles, Advanced Micro Devices is in a very interesting position.
And by that we mean that it can help lead to a future when developers have no trouble porting games from computers to consoles, or v... [read more >>] There have been a few laptops and tablets that ran the Android operating system on a hardware configuration centered around an x86 CPU. Usually, these were dual-OS consumer electronics.
Advanced Micro Devices wants to take things further than this. Or at least it is considering the option of designing proc... [read more >>] AMD technically introduced the Richland Elite A-Series accelerated processing units back on May 23, but that was more of a general intro for the entire APU line, including the Kabini and Temash chips. Now, the Sunnyvale, California-based company has formally released the Richland desktop APU series, compo... [read more >>] Having already covered the collection of fourth-generation desktop processing units from Intel, we are left with the mobile lineup. Intel hasn't provided a table of the raw specs like it has for the others, but that might just be because it has decided to wait until tomorrow (June 4, 2013).
That is, ... [read more >>] Computex 2013 hasn't started yet, since it will take place in Taipei, Taiwan between tomorrow (June 4) and Saturday (June 8). Things have already started moving though, and Intel is right there at the front of the convoy.
Over the past few months, a lot of information was shared by Intel and, more im... [read more >>] AMD scored a big win this year, by enchanting Sony and Microsoft enough to get them to use its Jaguar processing cores in their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game consoles.
There are concerns that these two consoles will not be as successful as their predecessors. Normally, this would imply that AMD would no... [read more >>] |
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