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This week’s news brought again to our attention the rumors about AMD spinning off some of its manufacturing facilities in an attempt to reduce costs and turn to profitability. Confirmation on the company's “asset smart” strategy came from John Lau, senior semiconductor analyst and managing dire... |
5 September 2008
06:06 GMT |
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A recently revealed slide showing AMD’s CPU roadmap indicates that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker is bound to release its first 45nm-manufactured quad-core Phenom processors as soon as January 2009. The slide appears to confirm recent rumors, according to which AMD plans to release the first 45nm desktop ... |
5 September 2008
02:02 GMT |
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Before Intel even has a chance to ship the first next-generation Nehalem processors, competitor AMD is bound to update its CPU offering with new triple-core Phenoms designed for high-performance. The new CPUs will not be able to compete with Intel's newly released high-end processors, but they do allow AMD to ge... |
4 September 2008
09:23 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices, one of the world's largest makers of x86 microprocessors, was rumored to be on the verge of spinning off some of its manufacturing facilities. Although the company's officials denied the rumors, they seem to have surfaced again. The Sunnyvale chip maker is expected t... |
4 September 2008
02:51 GMT |
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AMD has announced that its Quad-Core Opteron processors will be the only ones to power up the world’s first blade server developed specifically to overcome performance bottlenecks for virtual server hosting, the innovative HP ProLiant BL495c blade. The launch of the HP server raises the number of systems based ... |
3 September 2008
06:08 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices seems to have plans of getting its premium class FX-series processors back on the market. Voices from AMD say that the Phenom FX central processing units (CPUs) should be released in mid-2009, and that they will come on the new AM3 socket platform. The company already announced the AM3 processo... |
3 September 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Intel is not the only chip maker that has decided to update its processor offer, since competitor AMD has also made some adjustments to its lineup of desktop processors. However, unlike its Santa-Clara-based competitor, AMD has not rolled out any new desktop chips, opting instead for lowering the prices for several o... |
2 September 2008
10:54 GMT |
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AMD is just getting used to being the leading manufacturer of high-performance graphics, and all thanks to its high-end dual-chip Radeon HD 4870 X2. On the other hand, NVIDIA is becoming more familiar with the entry-level market with the release of its recent GeForce cards, the 9500GT and the even lower 9400GT. Unfo... |
2 September 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Nvidia finally decided to let more customers enjoy its SLI technology by opening up a software SLI licensing to OEMs and ODMs, yet, while Intel is included in the list, the graphics card manufacturer specifically stated that AMD would be left out. Even so, this is a step forward since, for quite a long time, only Nvi... |
2 September 2008
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Microsoft has informed of an issue impacting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (but not RTM) and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 on machines with AMD SB700 Southbridge chipsets installed. According to the Redmond giant, both the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems may crash when placed into... |
1 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the leading manufactures of graphics cards and motherboards, is planning to release a couple of new NVIDIA and AMD-based video cards, designed for the mainstream desktop computer users. The upcoming cards will be part of the company's Matrix lineup, which was showcased for the first time at this yea... |
29 August 2008
04:44 GMT |
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According to recent rumors, AMD plans to release its first 45nm-based desktop processors in early 2009. The company will showcase its next generation CPUs, codenamed Deneb, on the 8th of January, on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show or CES. Sources close to the company state that the new chips produ... |
28 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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GeCube, a Taiwanese graphics card manufacturer, has recently announced a new product based on AMD's latest HD4850. Having been designed for high-end performance, the new card offers users an impressive 1GB of GDDR3 graphics memory, and a GPU speed set above the reference model. The HD4850 Overclocking serie... |
28 August 2008
03:02 GMT |
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When the latest Windows client hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, Microsoft was under a barrage of criticism from the community of developers and gamers for its decision to make DirectX 10 Vista-exclusive, and not to backport the graphics technology for Windows XP, stuck with DX 9.0x. With the advent of Wind... |
26 August 2008
08:03 GMT |
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As mentioned in several of our previous articles, Advanced Micro is having a tough time managing its chip business and driving it to profitability, as competitor Intel is gaining ground in several market segments, leaving AMD to make do with the second spot. While the company's graphics chip business is finally ... |
26 August 2008
05:51 GMT |
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One of ATI's main betting cards against NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards is the DirectX 10.1 support for the company's latest Radeon graphics cards. Unfortunately, due to the lack of DirectX 10.1-enabled gaming applications, AMD's strategy can't be exploited to its full potential. However, the... |
25 August 2008
11:11 GMT |
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There are countless netbooks currently available on the market, but only a small part of them is not featured with an Intel Atom processor or a VIA nano CPU. This is the case of the eCafe Hercules or the Hercules eCafe Netbook, which has been built with an AMD Geode processor running at a top speed of 500MHz.Besides ... |
25 August 2008
10:17 GMT |
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As most of us already know, Intel is currently the worldwide leading manufacturer of computer processing cores, surpassing competitor AMD in a number of market segments. Although AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, is claiming back lost ground on the market of graphics cards with the release of its latest Radeon HD ... |
25 August 2008
08:33 GMT |
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Even as a new player on the virtualization market, Microsoft has touted intentions to democratize the technology. Despite the perception of a revolutionary novelty, virtualization in fact dates back all the way to the 1970's mainframes. However, the technology has so far failed to gain sufficient traction, despi... |
22 August 2008
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As we mentioned today in one of our posts, AMD is set to roll out three new graphics cards, and photos of them have already been spotted on the Internet. As expected, rumors are starting to build up and, because of them, we can now offer you more details about the upcoming cards, including core speeds for both the gr... |
21 August 2008
09:02 GMT |
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Recently, NVIDIA has launched two new graphics card designed to provide entry-level and mainstream users with decent graphics support at an affordable price. As expected, rival AMD and its subsidiary ATI have been working on the development of their own entry-level and mainstream-oriented graphics products and, despi... |
21 August 2008
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The latest ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released yesterday, and it brings various new features such as CrossFireX and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support. It also introduces ATIOverDrive to maximize the GPU's (Graphical Processing Unit) performance, although some caution is advised, as increasing its clocks above... |
21 August 2008
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Not too long ago, several rumors were making the rounds, saying that AMD was expected to release a new low-power processor, completely designed to compete with Intel's highly popular Atom CPU. Ultimately, all speculation came to an end once claims were made that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker was not even consid... |
18 August 2008
06:24 GMT |
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AMD's official announcement for the latest high-performance graphics card, HD 4870 X2, was followed by yet another one, also made by the Sunnyvale-based maker. It appears that the company's graphics business has managed to achieve a market share of 40%, up from 30%, due to the success of its recently releas... |
15 August 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Yesterday will go down in history as the day when AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, finally succeeded in releasing a card that is impressively better than NVIDIA's high-performance GeForce cards. After the official release, a number of AMD's board partners also announced their implementation of the compa... |
13 August 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Not so long ago, Hector Ruiz stepped down as CEO of Advanced Micro, being replaced by the company's chief operating officer, Dirk Meyer. Rumors of Hector Ruiz stepping down as AMD's chief executive officer have surfaced since May this year, but they were confirmed only a few months ago. Despite the fact tha... |
12 August 2008
13:13 GMT |
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About ten years ago, Via Technologies was considered one of the leading developers of core-logic sets. The company left the business of manufacturing AMD- and Intel-compatible chipsets, and said in a recent interview that we would witness the disappearance of the market of third party chipsets that are compatible wit... |
12 August 2008
04:56 GMT |
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After rumors of AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 have filled hundreds of pages in the media, the Sunnyvale company has finally rolled out its latest flagship high-performance card. Furthermore, it looks like AMD is set on releasing a second dual-GPU card, based on the performance-range HD 4850 graphics processor... |
12 August 2008
03:35 GMT |
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The countdown has begun, and we are getting closer to the release of ATI's "Spartan," the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2. For those who are not in the know, this is a card expected to be released tomorrow, when it will finally take NVIDIA's crown in the high-end graphics market and, at the same time, position A... |
11 August 2008
10:11 GMT |
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It looks like AMD is working hard on the introduction of Havok on GPU. The company wants to make it run faster than Physics on a GPU, at least that is what AMD's Physics department seems to have told news site Fudzilla. While Ageia's PhysX was able to leverage the physics in original Ghost Recon Advanced Wa... |
8 August 2008
05:07 GMT |
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ASUS has recently rolled out a new motherboard based on one of AMD's latest products, the 790GX graphics integrated chipset. The new ASUS M3A78-T has been designed to support AMD's latest CPUs and graphics cards, with help from one of the most promising chipsets to have been released by Advanced Micro Devic... |
8 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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As we are getting closer to NVIDIA's NVISION event, rumors of new high-performance GeForce graphics cards gradually gain more ground. Moreover, this month, the entire industry is all eyes on AMD, which will finally reveal its latest high-end Radeon, also known as the Spartan. And this is how rumors of a 55nm GT2... |
7 August 2008
07:03 GMT |
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AMD announced today two new professional graphics accelerators, the ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700, meant to ensure raised performance for applications like Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Content Creation (DCC). The company has also introduced a new brand for its professional graphics accelerators, ... |
7 August 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Microsoft's next iteration of DirectX is bound to be situated at the forefront of the general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution, according to the Redmond company. The software giant has been extremely shy of revealing details about the successor of DirectX 10 directly to the general public. At its r... |
6 August 2008
11:13 GMT |
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After announcing its latest chipset with integrated graphics, Advanced Micro is showing clear signs of thinking well ahead into the future. A rep for the company just announced today plans for extending the efforts in the adoption of the next-generation GPGPU software development. What that actually means is that, in... |
6 August 2008
08:34 GMT |
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It's official: AMD's latest chipset has finally landed. Consequently, as expected, a number of motherboard manufacturers have already announced their brand new AM2 -based mobos. Over the next few days, we are probably also going to see quite a few 790GX-based platforms being announced. One step ahead of the... |
6 August 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, better known just as AMD, has officially launched its latest and highly anticipated mainstream chipset. Based on one of the company's earlier products, the 780G, the 790GX comes in a better and improved package. Now that the official release took place, this can only mean that the next co... |
6 August 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Since Gainward decided to diversify its graphics card offer, most of the company's fans have probably been waiting for a "Golden Sample" Radeon-based graphics card. By the looks of it, they won't have to wait for that much longer, as the company finally introduced one of its designs for a HD 4850-based grap... |
5 August 2008
08:43 GMT |
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DFI, the worldwide renowned motherboard manufacturer, is about to introduce two new products designed to support the latest AMD and Intel technologies. The AMD-based mobo will be equipped with the 790GX SB750 chipset combo, while the Intel-based motherboard will run with Intel's P45 and ICH10R chipsets. Both p... |
5 August 2008
04:41 GMT |
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It looks like Advanced Micro Devices is getting its RV710 and RV730 mainstream and low-end products on the market this September. The RV710 chip is said to feature Hybrid CrossFire capabilities. Although the company would not disclose too much info on the GPUs, they are believed to be AMD's response to Nvidia�... |
5 August 2008
03:39 GMT |
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As of late, it has become a general trend for everybody to talk about the hard times that NVIDIA is having in the chipset and graphics market. Rumors have gone so far as to claim that the Santa Clara-based chip maker was about to phase out of the chipset business, thus putting an end to future high-end SLI-enabled mo... |
4 August 2008
08:25 GMT |
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During the second quarter of 2008, a number of 94.4 million graphics cards were shipped by manufacturers, marking a 0.5 percent sequential drop from the first quarter, but a 16 percent rise on the year-over-year basis. The leading company on the market seems to be Intel, which registered a total of 44.67 million unit... |
4 August 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Fusion represented for AMD a good reason to justify its action of acquiring ATI. The acquisition proved to be an unhappy one: AMD went down to the red line with its finances, and the management of the company changed. Even so, Fusion is still far from what AMD would like to detail. Still, no secrets seem to last too ... |
4 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced a while ago its plans to sell the "non core" businesses, and the latest news indicates that this may include selling the consumer electronics TV business unit the company acquired back in 2006 together with ATI Technologies. According to an analyst, the possible buyer of the company&#... |
1 August 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its... |
31 July 2008
10:13 GMT |
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A little while ago, Artic Cooling released a new VGA cooling solution, which was designed to provide support for the latest high-end graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD. Dubbed the Accelero Twin Turbo, its design features two fans which are meant to provide an optimum cooling solution even for the highest perform... |
31 July 2008
06:01 GMT |
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AMD showcased some of its current products and technologies at a small gathering the company hosted at the London NYC Hotel. A few products developed by AMD's partners were also put on display at the event, along with demos for the products slated for release in the following months. The guys from Hot Hardware a... |
31 July 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Some of you ATI fans out there must already know that HIS is one of the biggest Radeon integrators on the market. This is because this card manufacturer has succeeded so far in delivering some of the best Radeon-based cards on the market, mostly thanks to the use of its IceQ technology, meant to effectively dissipate... |
30 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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In case, for one reason or another, you haven't been paying attention to ASUS' latest moves on the market, you might have missed the release of one of its most recent products, which is basically an AMD-based motherboard. Designed with technology enthusiasts in mind, it is build to withstand some intensive ... |
29 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced about a year ago that its cost-reduction program intended to turn the company to profitability also includes the reorganization of its manufacturing operations. Although no specific details have been unveiled since then, it seems that the Sunnyvale company is getting close to giv... |
29 July 2008
04:24 GMT |
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