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Foxconn will soon launch a couple of barebone PCs called “Nano PCs” and priced at under $200 / 152 Euro.
They are called AT-5300 and AT-5600 and use Intel and AMD processors, respectively.
To be more precise, the former utilizes the Atom D2700, while the latter has an AMD E-450 “Brazos” APU ... |
4 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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TUL Corporation, an exclusive manufacturer of AMD graphic cards, has just released today the company’s custom design of the HD7800 series cards, on its official website. We’re talking about the PowerColor HD7870 and HD7850. PowerColor claims their HD7800 series is packed with selected power kit and effic... |
4 May 2012
09:38 GMT |
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The chief executive officer and the board of directors of Advanced Micro Devices have finally decided who would assume the position of chief marketing officer. The new senior vice president and CMO is Colette LaForce, 39, a former member of Dell. She will report directly to President and CEO Rory Read. Currently, ... |
4 May 2012
08:34 GMT |
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The so-called shortage of 28nm-based graphics adapters might start being less of an issue by the end of the month, according to a recent rumor.
People may not immediately realize it when browsing online stores or visiting their local computer shops, but NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices, and OEMs, don't really... |
3 May 2012
05:01 GMT |
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As we said before, SOI is a very resourceful concept and can show amazing improvements in the right conditions. Every foundry needs a SHP (Super High Performance) manufacturing line and GlobalFoundries wants this line to be based on SOI. Compared to the bulk process, enhancing your producing line with SOI technology... |
3 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Passionate people seem to be at the right place and at the right time. So was Semiaccurate’s Charlie Demerjian who was reportedly able to catch a glimpse of AMD’s new Leo Demo. The demo is used to show how a developer can use the GPU compute power of AMD’s APUs and GPUs. We’re talking about ... |
3 May 2012
03:41 GMT |
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A prototype of AFOX Radeon HD 7850 has reportedly landed in a test lab. As the benchmark results were much lower than the experts expected, they’ve decided to check it with GPU-Z. A check was truly in order since the 256 Bit Radeon HD 7850 was delivering results closer to the 128 Bit Radeon HD 7770. Using the ... |
3 May 2012
03:05 GMT |
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As we said in the beginning, SOI helps reducing leakage, power consumption and increases the achievable frequency. This is exactly why Trinity is able to achieve such low power consumption levels like 15W / 25W and 35W. The Trinity APU will have working frequencies between 2 GHz and 3.8 GHz. Other than refining the... |
2 May 2012
17:44 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices decided it was time to give prospective customers an incentive to buy its products, so it appealed to the interests of those most likely to put thought into what CPU to buy next.
People who like to play games, especially those who know their way around a computer, are the ones who are likely ... |
2 May 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Eurocom Corporation has just announced the new 15.6" EUROCOM Racer 2.0 notebook powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge and AMD’s new Radeon HD 7970M mobile GPU, on its official website. Eurocom is well known as a developer of long lifespan, fully upgradable notebooks.The Racer 2.0 is a 15.6" small form factor lapt... |
2 May 2012
05:40 GMT |
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As we said in Part I of our AMD Trinity Architectural Preview, Trinity’s x86 modules are being upgraded to the “Piledriver” design. Piledriver is being characterized by AMD as “2nd Generation Bulldozer core.” The Piledriver compute module is comprised of two integer cores sharing ... |
30 April 2012
13:31 GMT |
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A lot of info about AMD’s new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) called “Trinity” has recently surfaced on the net. AMD’s Trinity is the successor of the successful Llano APUs that completely destroyed Intel’s competing solutions when it comes to overall computing user experience. With t... |
30 April 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has just outdone itself without trying, having somehow allowed its next driver package to slip through its fingers and reach the Internet.
We aren't talking about the latest official release of the software meant to go with the Radeon series of graphics adapters.
Instead, NGOHQ somehow... |
27 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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AMD has just announced on its official blog that they are offering a surprising bundle of three different games with the company’s Radeon 7900 Series of video card. The last time AMD announced a special game bundle was around two years ago, with the launch of the Radeon HD 5800 line. The game in ques... |
27 April 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Market analysis company Mercury Research has reportedly made public their study of the last quarter and concluded that AMD gained CPU market share from Intel. AMD's market grew to 19.1 percent from 18.2 percent, according to Mercury Research, and Intel's share of the market dropped to 80.2 percent during th... |
26 April 2012
17:19 GMT |
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Hong Kong company Hightech Information System Limited has reportedly presented the custom-designed, pre-overclocked HIS Radeon HD 7770 IceQX silent video card. The card is built around AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit that comes with a minuscule 123 square millimeters die size, contai... |
26 April 2012
14:02 GMT |
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Reportedly, HP has already listed the new Envy 4 series that currently has six different models on its online shop. The 1005tx and 1019tx are relatively entry-level models, while the 1004tx and 1021tx are part of the mid-range. The high-end is represented by the 1006tx and 1021tx Ultrabooks. The slower models are pow... |
26 April 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has reached the conclusion that its business operations could go a lot better if it had a nice, new private cloud to use, so it set about building just that.
Cloud services are being very actively encouraged, but most companies are unwilling to risk placing their data and resources in the han... |
26 April 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Now that the first quarter of 2012 is over and done with, Advanced Micro Devices is taking its turn at saying what is what on a financial level.
Apparently, the January-March period wasn't the most productive, with revenue going down all around, according to the company's press release.
On the so-called ... |
26 April 2012
04:30 GMT |
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The price of AMD’s FX-8150 has reportedly been reduced significantly lately. Online sites show the CPU at a low 179 EUR for the European buyers. That would be around 235 USD for the US customers.
Ever since the launch of its current flagship, AMD has been aware that the level of performance its first iteration... |
25 April 2012
11:07 GMT |
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TUL Corporation, owner of the PowerColor brand, has announced today on its official website a multi-monitor edition of the AMD Radeon HD 7870 card. The latest edition of PowerColor HD7870 Eyefinity 6 is optimized for multi-display, the Eyefinity technology being able to drive up to six monitors from a single c... |
25 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Programs don't work as well on all types of processors, which means that sometimes it takes a special collaboration between the chip makers and software developers to optimize performance. What we have learned from one of AMD's most recent press releases is that the Sunnyvale, California-based company has... |
25 April 2012
04:02 GMT |
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The A10-4600M is going to be AMD's main player on the notebook chip market, as soon as the Trinity series of accelerated processing units makes its debut.
We now know what the specifications of the APU are, but that's not all that the folks at Nordic Hardware got their hands on.
Advanced Micro Devices&#... |
25 April 2012
02:32 GMT |
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The rumor mill has been turning and turning while trying to grind out all possible details about the AMD Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics card.
So far, we have a pretty clear picture of what the card with two Tahiti 28nm chips will be able to do.
The video board has 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, 6-monitor EyeFinity, 4,096 ... |
24 April 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Today, AMD announced on their official blog that their collaboration with Adobe to bring the first implementation of OpenCL heterogeneous compute within the Adobe Creative Suites family has brought up to ten fold performance improvement in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6. AMD has promised computer... |
24 April 2012
10:39 GMT |
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MSI is apparently on a roll lately. The company seems to be enjoying many firsts this week. We managed to spot one of the company’s newest netbooks powered by the much-anticipated AMD Brazos 2.0 platform. We’re talking about an urealeased CPU, called AMD E2-1800, that has two cores working at 1,700 MHz. I... |
24 April 2012
08:51 GMT |
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We've looked at the new high-end graphics processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices and, now, we can go ahead and check out what laptops it has already become part of. Eurocom is the company that formally introduced mobile systems equipped with the AMD Radeon HD 7970M discrete GPU. There are two, Intel Ivy... |
24 April 2012
08:11 GMT |
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French company Soitec is a manufacturer and developer of Silicon On Insulator wafers that is headquartered in Bernin, France. SOI technology is well known to the computer enthusiasts all over the world, as this is the technology AMD used to manufacture its CPUs since the 2003 K8 architecture. The initiator of SOI was... |
24 April 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has finally reached the point where its “Pitcairn” GPU architecture is ready to serve mobile personal computers.
What we are looking at is the first Radeon HD 7900M series mobile discrete graphics processing unit from the Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Codenamed “Tha... |
24 April 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Having a GPU out for three years and still not delivering on the features you've promised for that product is not something a GPU company should desire. And then there is AMD. They’ve made some great CPUs over the years and ATI, later AMD, has built great GPUs also. The thing is that even AMD’s Bulld... |
24 April 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Gigabyte has recently presented the new pre-overclocked and custom cooled AMD Radeon HD 7870 GV-R787OC-2GD Video Card, on its official website.
The card comes with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory on a 256-bit interface and is factory overclocked to a high 1100 MHz. That’s a very high overclock from the reference def... |
23 April 2012
03:38 GMT |
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AMD is reportedly planning to give up support for cards using GPUs from the infamous HD2000 series, but, unfortunately, they’ll also kill support for the successful HD3000 and HD4000 series.UPDATE: as several readers have pointed out, this move from AMD will only affect Linux users. The Windows driver... |
21 April 2012
06:04 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices will soon deliver a new graphics processing unit at its next “AMD Tuesday” event. This means that, in three days time, a new GPU will be ready to assist customers. The chip in question is a 28nm Pitcairn-based discrete GPU, for laptops. It bears the name of Radeon HD 7970M and... |
21 April 2012
03:48 GMT |
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For some reason, Advanced Micro Devices didn't score many design wins with its Fusion architecture, even though the Llano accelerated processing units weren't half bad.
Now, everyone seems to be anticipating the Trinity APUs, as if the Llano barely had any significance. It goes to show how something can g... |
20 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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AMD’s Senior PR Manage Phil Hughes has recently posted a picture of AMD’s first shipment of “Trinity” and “Brazos 2.0” CPUs, on AMD’s official blog.“Trinity” is AMD’s not-so-secret weapon against Intel’s HD4000 and especially against Nvidia’s new... |
20 April 2012
11:25 GMT |
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AMD has recently held its conference call with financial analysts and has given some indication of where it stands in regard to its upcoming series of accelerated processing units.
Advanced Micro Devices could certainly do with some more interest on the part of those companies known for making PCs, especially mobil... |
20 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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At this point, we've written about the supposed state of TSMC's 28nm process so many times that we may as well see what those directly affected think of the matter.
Truth be told, we've already done this, as far as NVIDIA is concerned anyway, hence the general impression that TSMC is not doing as wel... |
20 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Team Katana from the Land of the Rising Sun has reportedly achieved the highest 3D Mark 11 Extreme Preset result in the world, using their single-GPU card based on AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 architecture. The card’s GPU was clocked at an amazing 1747 MHz, while the video memory worked at a 1971 MHz actual freq... |
19 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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The Abu Dhabi investment group that bought the CPU FABs from AMD some time ago and renamed them Globalfoundries, is now investing $4,8 million (3,6 mil. Eur), along with Germany’s State of Saxony into semiconductor research. The theme of the two-year research is a three-dimensional chip packaging, but it will ... |
18 April 2012
08:36 GMT |
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We said, last week, that the Radeon HD 7900 graphics series from Advanced Micro Devices was in for some cuts in prices and, sure enough, here they are. Then again, we might say that the previous rumors didn't exactly pan out, but that is actually a good thing in this instance. That is to say, AMD actually lo... |
18 April 2012
05:24 GMT |
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While some might have never heard of it, MIPS stands for “Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages” and is a RISC type of processor architecture, just like AMD’s or Intel’s x86 CPUs are. It is not something radically different and hard to develop and to develop for, like Intel&rsquo... |
18 April 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Amazon has listed the ASUS U32U ultraportable as available for order and shipment.
The price is $449.99, or 342.64 Euro, according to exchange rates, although it is more likely that, should the notebook reach the old continent, the price will be closer to 400, or even the full 450 Euro.
Anyway, the 13.3-inch laptop... |
17 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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AMD is reportedly concentrating on their Fusion promise they’ve made six years ago when they’ve acquired the GPU design company, ATI. Therefore, their next radically new processor architecture will first be introduced in the company’s APUs during the next year.AMD’s Bulldozer has been a huge d... |
17 April 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Professional graphics designers now have, or will soon have, an extra reason to consider buying AMD FirePro professional graphics cards when making a workstation.
Advanced Micro Devices and product development software maker PTC have announced a partnership for improving Creo performance.
More precisely, they inte... |
17 April 2012
04:58 GMT |
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In the battle for the server market, AMD has reportedly started shipping faster CPUs on almost every front. Updated versions of its CPUs started to appear in the energy-efficient line, the top line, the dual socket line and the quad socket versions.For those who need a reminder, AMD’s Opteron CPUs, designed for... |
15 April 2012
07:53 GMT |
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As all the NVIDIA Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards kept coming out, Advanced Micro Devices would just not reduce the prices of its Radeon HD 7900 series.
This was weird, because the GTX 680 managed to best the HD 7970 in many areas, although not all of them, while costing less.
Now, though, it is said ... |
13 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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While Intel's Ivy Bridge approaches, Advanced Micro Devices readies its Trinity APU series, and there seems to be some new information on a concern regarding the latter.
Granted, concern may be too strong a word, since this isn't about some flaw or necessary weakness, but it is close enough.
Essentially... |
12 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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In an attempt to collect as much info on AMD’s Trinity results as possible, German blog site Citavia has compiled a list of results obtained from working with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software. According to Wikipedia, BOINC is “an open source middleware system for volun... |
10 April 2012
03:16 GMT |
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A new video card will soon show up for order, if it hasn't already, courtesy of PowerColor.
After so many high-end cards from NVIDIA's partners, PowerColor is offering something different.
Long story short, the company has completed its latest AMD-powered card: PowerColor PCS+ HD7850.
As the name implies... |
7 April 2012
05:39 GMT |
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If you've owned AGP graphic cards and used to install new drivers often, then we'd assume you're quite familiar with the "No compatible hardware found" error; and the fact that the Catalyst Hotfixes are the solution for this problem should be no groundbreaking news.
The real news is that we've go... |
6 April 2012
10:09 GMT |
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