AMD's New 45nm Processors Register 12% Power Efficiency
	AMD announced a few days ago that the transition to the 45nm process technology is moving as planned, and that we would have the first microprocessors developed under the new fabrication process by the end of the year. It seems that the company is now getting the latest details of the move read ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2008, 04:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SB750 Allows Phenoms to Be Overclocked
	Since AMD's new SB750 was announced, various rumors concerning the performance enhancements of the South Bridge have emerged, especially regarding its capacities of improving communication with Phenom processors, allowing users to get it to higher overclocking levels. It seems that some of these rumors are true after all; at least, this is what has been revealed after the testing of the new SB750. The I/O operations fall under the ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No AMD Atom Competitor
	What follows will probably not sit well with all those AMD fans who were expecting the Sunnyvale-based company to put out a new CPU to compete with Intel's Atom in the netbook market. Sad but true: according to the statements of one of the company's officials, AMD is not going to release a low-power, low-cost CPU designed for devices such as netbooks or nettops. At least, not right now. Instead, the chip manufacturer ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Bring All in Wonder Back to Europe
	About a month ago, AMD announced its plans to revive the All in Wonder cards series. The graphics chips manufacturer released the boards in the US back then, with support for the American TV standards. The company has just announced that it plans to get the cards back to the European market as well. The All in Wonder ATI cards combine the Radeon graphics and TV Wonder HD tuner technologies in a single PCI Express 2.0 solution ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

RV710 and RV730 Ready Ahead of Schedule
	No one can really say that AMD is doing all that well these days but, as far its graphics business is concerned, things appear to be shaping the way the Sunnyvale-based company wants them to. And that's mainly because, for the first time in years, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary has managed to bring out a card that can compete with NVIDIA's GeForce cards. By the looks of it, the future Radeon cards will continue this new tren ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 10:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Catalyst 8.7 Drivers Bring 20% More Performance
	The latest Catalyst drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards have been released by Advanced Micro Devices for both Windows and Linux. The company announced that the new drivers are capable of providing up to 20 percent better performance in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark and also up to 15 percent frame rate increase in some of the current games. According to AMD, Information Center enhancements have been added to the Catalyst ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Major Partners Abandon the NVIDIA Ship
	Late last month, Gainward was reported to have started offering graphics cards based on AMD's latest graphics processors. Based on this and on the fact that Intel was said to be in the final stages of completing the Larrabee project, a rumor has begun to spread. Apparently, two of NVIDIA's best partners are considering or have already decided to leave the Santa Clara graphics manufacturer. Back when we brought the ne ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 03:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Starts 45nm Pilot Production
	According to the new chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Dirk Meyer, AMD has already started pilot production for microprocessors on the 45 nanometer manufacturing process. The statement, made during a conference call with financial analysts, also included the announcement that the chip developer has everything working according to plan, and that it will be able to begin shipping the devices in volume starting with ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dirk Meyer Confirms Atom Competitor
	With the netbook market getting so crowded with each passing day, it's very likely that AMD will soon provide a new low-power CPU meant to take on Intel's Atom. As we already told you a while back, the new CPU is expected to be launched by the end of the year ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD May Agree with the Porting of PhysX on Radeon
	NVIDIA's newly launched PhysX technology managed to accelerate performance at levels beyond known limits, and that caught everybody’s attention. Shortly after this, NGOHQ announced that they were able to port Nvidia PhysX to AMD's Radeon HD 380 GPU. In the following weeks, their action g ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hector Ruiz Replaced by Dirk Meyer as AMD's CEO
	As we informed you on Monday, Advanced Micro has been showered by the media with quite a few favorable pieces, thanks to its latest Radeon graphics cards. Nevertheless, this fails to change the fact that, overall, the company isn't doing all that w ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Radeon Cards Ready for Mainstream and Mobile Market
	According to the PCI-SIG certification, ATI's next-generation mainstream graphics cards and graphics processors for mobile devices are ready to enter the market. Advanced Micro Devices, the company that acquired ATI, demonstrated through the launch of its latest ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards that the company is capable of having its high-end graphics boards released on time. The PCI Express "integrators l ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unveiling of the World's First 2GB Graphics Card
	This past Friday, we told you about certain rumors surrounding a possible release of a 2GB Radeon graphics card, coming from PowerColor. According to the rumors, which only surfaced once a set of photos with the card were posted on the ExpreView website, PowerColor was alle ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 08:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Radeon HD 4850 X2 to Be Launched in September
	It seems like AMD's graphics subsidiary is receiving an impressive amount of attention from the online media. Unlike in the previous years, the latest news places ATI in a very favorable light, something that the red team hasn't seen in years. The most recent reports coming in talk about a number of Radeon graphics cards that are expected to be released in September this year. According to the rumors, the chip manufacturer is ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 11:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Finally Confirms HD 4870 X2 Launch
	After the series of rumors that have surfaced, saying that AMD's upcoming high-end graphics card would be released either in July or in August, there's finally something official coming from one of the company's representatives. According to Raja Koudri, worldwide CTO (Products Group) at AMD, the new "Spartan" card will be made available in August. Raja Koudri also confirmed the fact that new graphics card [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Latest Radeon Graphics Cards Are Doing Well, but AMD Isn't
	Contrary to what some might believe, AMD isn't doing very well with its chip business at the moment. Sadly, this holds true even if we take in consideration the favorable articles that have been recently written in support of the company's latest Radeon graphics cards. In fact, it is exactly the graphics segment that is giving AMD a hard time, two years after the acquisition of ATI. According to the numbers that are being circ ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot Peek Inside Radeon HD 4870 X2
	Advanced Micro Devices decided it was high time to give us a glimpse at its upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, due to an official launch in approximately a month. What we see when looking at R700 is basically a board made of maximum two RV770s connected through a PCI Express switch. The card features the same core speeds as Radeon HD 4870, and with 512MB of memory size per graphics processor. Basically, we would expect to see a board perf ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 Slated for an August Release
	It appears that AMD's upcoming graphics monster is still on for an August release, contrary to the rumors we told you about just yesterday. Apparently, AMD will not go official with its new graphics card until next month, which means that enthusiast users will have to wait for a while longer before getting to purchase the new Radeon card. ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Bring New Radeons in September
	Recent reports seem to indicate that AMD's R7xx series of graphics cards has nothing but a bright future ahead. Apparently, the Sunnyvale-based chip manufacturer is planning to release a couple of new graphics cards based on the 55nm manufacturing technology. They will be part of the company's R7xx series and will slowly replace the older HD 3xx0 models. Even more, we won't even have to wait too long for the new ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's R700 to Be Announced Next Monday
	Last week, when we brought you news of AMD's upcoming R700 graphics card, we also told you it was going to become available in August. The card, to be sold under the dubbing of Radeon HD 4870 X2, is expected to come in two variants, one of which is said to provid ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Helps Porting PhysX on Radeon
	Nvidia seems to have decided it’s time to make a new tactical move in the already announced war on the graphics cards market. What's coming this time is Santa Clara's direct help for third party modders which started the operation of bringing PhysX processing to AMD graphics cards. Nvidi ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Users' Choice: AMD Graphics Cards Rule
	Although Nvidia is working hard on making its graphics cards strong competitors for the latest Radeon 4800 series released by AMD, some poll results published by HEXUS.community show thet GeForce 260 and 280 are far low in people's preferences. The answers to a question launched about two weeks ago revealed that 74 percent of the community mem ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI's HD 4850 Card Is Much Cheaper
	The war to become the leading graphics card manufacturer has led ATI to lower the price tag for its latest generation products. Although everybody is expecting the graphics manufacturer to beat NVIDIA in terms of performance with its recently rumored Radeon HD 4870 X2 card, that doesn't stop the company from lowering its price tags. This time, the HD 4850 is in the spotlight. According the listings displayed at Geizhals.a ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 08:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's R700 Card Comes with 2GB of GDDR5 Memory
	AMD's GeForce killer is coming and, as expected, it will ship as a dual-core graphics card, ready for some serious graphics performance. For the moment details are scarce but even so, the new model promises to unleash a whole new level of power. For starters, the new Radeon graphics card now has an official name, R700, but, according to some recent ongoing rumors, for the consumer market it will be branded as Radeon HD 48 ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pictures of AMD's HD 4870X2 Surface
	Last week AMD went official with its new lineup of RV770-based graphics cards. But besides the HD 4850 and HD 4870 models that have been expected by every AMD fan out there, some even thought that the manufacturer would release a dual-core version of its next-generation flagship model, the HD 4870. Unfortunately for them, that was not the case, but still the company is rumored to release such a card soon enough. A while ago, w ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Upcoming Chipsets Could Bring PCIe 3.0 support
	It seems that today's news is all about AMD and that should make one wonder what the future of the computing industry holds. With all of the company's on-going projects, AMD is bound to make a serious impact through the release of its new product lineup. This time around, we are talking about a possible PCIe 3.0 support for the future AMD-based motherboards. Apparently, the SB800 Southbridge is going to provide the w ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's New CPUs Will Work in AM2+ and AM3 sockets
	AMD has to fight its battles on several battlegrounds in the computing market. But one arena that the manufacturer is used to is the CPU market, where the company falls behind rival Intel in the high-end processors segment. And with Intel's future to come Nehalem architecture, AMD will have a tough time with their upcoming Deneb and Deneb FX processor architectures. Even so, AMD is reported to have managed to make its upc ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD vs Intel: Q1 Marks Revenue for the Sunnyvale Company
	The first quarter of 2008 revenue numbers show, according to technology research firm iSuppli, that Advanced Micro Device's announced steady revival has already begun. While its archrival Intel managed to score one point of microprocessor market share over Q4 2007, AMD made it grow by two percent compared to last year’s first quarter. Intel went to 79.7 percent market share in Q1 2008, 1.2 percent more than the 78.5 percent regist ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Super RV770 Comes to Take Away NVIDIA's Crown
	We all know that NVIDIA has been wearing the crown for the highest performance graphics card, for a couple of years now. The release of its GT200-series has been highly talked about and most believe that the manufacturer’s reign is still far from over. But with the release of its RV770-based cards, ATI is breathing hard down NVIDIA's neck, for the very first time in a long time. As most of you already know, the ATI Radeon ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's SB800 Is a Completely New Southbridge
	As we have already presented to you yesterday, details about AMD's chipset roadmap for 2009 have been found loose on the web. But because such information tends to come in bits and pieces, today we found another set of details regarding AMD's future chipsets and this ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Chipset Roadmap for 2009 on the Loose
	The official AMD's motherboard chipset roadmap for 2009 has been revealed by the guys from ChileHardware, and we had a look at it. Some of the things showed here are not much of a surprise, the next-generation AMD motherboards will feature the latest technologies, including DDR3, on which we've alr ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Adds New Phenoms to Its Desktop CPU Lineup
	AMD is taking a shot at the desktop processor market with the release of three new Phenom processors. One of these CPUs, the new Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, will become AMD's flagship model, taking the place of the company's previous title holder, the Phenom X4 9850. Unlike the Black Edition Phenom, the other two models are somewhat of a surprise, as they are built as low-power quad-cores. These two new procs are dubbed Phenom ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Your Overclocked HD 4870
	AMD officially announced its new Radeon graphics card lineup last week, but we are already reading news about factory overclocked versions of the new cards, coming from AMD's partners. Diamond Multimedia is one such partner that has decided to announce an overclocked HD4870 model, which is expected to take on NVIDIA's high-end cards. The new product is the fruit of a collaboration between Diamond Multimedia, PC build ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gainward Goes with AMD's Latest Graphics Cards
	Last week AMD finally rolled out their new graphics cards based on the RV770 graphics processor unit. As a result, enthusiast users can now order the new cards from a number of AMD partners. A new member has been recently added to this list of partners, Gainward, which up until now offered graphics cards based only on NVIDIA's GPU architecture. The graphics card manufacturer has announced, for the very fist time, two new ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4870 Brings 1.2 TeraFLOPs of GPU Power
	It might seem that AMD/ATI have really managed to come up with two really grand graphics monsters this time, in the form of the HD 4800 series. And even if the launch wasn't exactly the most carefully-planned event (after all, there were quite a lot of add-in-board (AIB) partners that have announced their new versions of this family before the AMD/ATI managed to), the truth of the matter is that this event might actually change the fa ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Brings Back ATI All-In-Wonder Series with New HD Version
	As mentioned in one of yesterday's articles, these past few days have been extremely busy and tumultuous on the graphics card market, both major players in this particular segment (ATI/AMD and NVIDIA) launching a couple of very interesting products, some of them targeting the exact same specific price points. And in order to capitalize on the momentum created by the release of the HD 4850 and HD 4870 models, AMD has decided to let yet ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 01:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI to Counter 9800GTX+ with Overclocked Radeon 4850 Cards
	The past couple of days (and weeks) have proved to be extremely interesting, as far as graphics cards were concerned. First of all, we've seen NVIDIA launch its GT200 architecture (the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 models), then ATI hit back with the HD 4850 and HD 4870 units. Last (but certainly not least), NVIDIA has also announced the imminent availability (July) of its GeForce 9800GTX+ card, a higher-clocked 9800 GTX and a d ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2008, 12:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel to Be Found Guilty in Europe, Innocent in the US
	The computer processor market had been dominated, for the past decade or so, by two big names, Intel and AMD, with the latter almost constantly occupying the underdog position. As you might have heard from quite a lot of our previous articles on this subject, the big &qu ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD and Nvidia Wrestle Again for Mainstream Market Share
	The war on the GPU market we announced a few months ago continues with new rounds between Nvidia and AMD, the industry's two big players. Only a week ago, AMD launched a new series of graphics cards, the Radeon HD 4850, which made Nvidia react right away. The Santa Clara ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ASUS, PowerColor and Sapphire Announce HD 4000 Series Cards
	Even though AMD hasn't yet officially released their next-generation Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards, AMD fans can already place their orders, thanks to a couple of manufacturers. Important names such as ASUS, Sapphire or PowerColor have already officially announced their version of AMD's next-generation Radeon 4000-series GPUs and users can check the specs of these cards on the above mentioned manufacturers' websites. ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Bring Dual-Core HD Radeon 4870 X2
	By now, most of you already know that AMD is planning to give the official treatment to its new graphics card lineup sometime next week. It is then that we will first hear about what the future holds for AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, and which are the next-generation graphics cards gamers will be using for their high-end gaming rigs. However, besides the highly anticipated Radeon HD 4850 and 4870, AMD is also expected to t ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Atom Competitor to Be Launched by the End of the Year
	AMD will not stand by and watch how Intel's Atom processor takes all the spotlight in the netbook market, especially since it is still far from producing a real competitor to the latter’s high-end CPU lineup. As we already mentioned before, AMD is planning to release a proc ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Allows Publishing Radeon HD 4850 Scores
	If you recently had the chance to read a review of one of ATI's upcoming Radeon 4850 graphics cards, then you should know that AMD approves of these reviews. And this is because users can already acquire the company's HD 4000 series cards in most of the countries in Europe and even Israel and some of them have already posted their impressions and benchmark results on various websites. Apparently, AMD has lost control ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Radeon HD 4870 at Just $299
	Don't you just love price wars? Somehow, they always end by allowing users to purchase better products for lower prices. Even more, if the products in question have similar performance levels, then definitely price wars are all the better for us. These days, we are witnessing NVIDIA and AMD fighting to draw more attention to their latest product lineups. With NVIDIA's GT200 series on the loose, AMD will have a difficult ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Future of Graphics after NVIDIA-Intel Feud
	As most of you already know, NVIDIA and Intel are currently feuding over a statement made by one of Intel's engineers, saying that users would soon have no need for GPUs. But there’s an upside to this, as the battle between the two chip manufacturers can only benefit users, since both companies are planning to change the way visual computing will evolve. This materializes in NVIDIA raising the performance bar for its products, while I ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PoweColor HD 4850 Cards in Stock
	Wondering where from to get your ATI Radeon 4850 graphics card? How about Germany, from an online retailer that has listed a PowerColor branded Radeon HD 4850 card as being in stock? Now, this should definitely come as a nice surprise to gaming users and technology enthusiasts who want to be among the first to get their hands on one of AMD's next-generation graphics card. On the other hand, this tells us another thing: w ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Low-Power Phenoms by the End of the Year
	Rest assured that AMD isn't going to let grass grow under its feet while Intel is prepping the release of the new Nehalem processors. The Sunnyvale-based chip manufacturer is planning to launch several low-power triple- and quad-core processors during the second half of this year. According to sources among the motherboard makers, these chips are expected to come with a TDP of 65W. The products are obviously not meant to compete with ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Upcoming RV770-based Cards Go Hollywood on Us
	No, AMD did not release the new graphics card lineup yesterday, as a response to NVIDIA’s new GT200 series. However, the chip manufacturer did do something, and that was to hold a press conference in San Francisco, during which it showcased "a milestone achievement in ultra-realistic and interactive visual computing." Not really the launch of a graphics card, but rather a marketing scheme to demonstrate the graphics capabilities ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

2009: The Year of AMD's Possible Comeback
	As most of you already know, AMD has lost the leading position in the high-end consumer market for quite some time now. Up until now, Intel has been king in the high-performance CPU market, thus leaving plenty of room for AMD to deal with the energy efficient market. Because it lacks the performance punch, AMD's processors are taken into consideration only when it comes to talking about the best performance/price ratio – which is wher ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 11:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Taking a Shot at the Netbook Market?
	With all the speculations, estimations and expectations going around about the netbook market, it comes as no surprise that AMD is planning a new energy efficient processor. This is all the more true especially since, as of now, the Intel Atom processor doesn't look like having so many competitors, and Intel is still facing problems in meeting the high product demands. According to the German websiste EeePCNews, AMD is pr ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia