Hector Ruiz Plans to Sell AMD's Consumer Division
	Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said during the meeting with the company's shareholders that he saw more changes coming as part of the restructuring policy. He also admitted that AMD had been a poor performer on the CPU market during 2007, but the new restructuring plans would make AMD "consistently" profitable. Despite the fact that his keynote was a little too cryptic, his estimations point to the fact ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Driver Mistakenly Flagged as Hack Attack
	Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger. According to various reports, the university administrators spotted the attack only when the computers restarted themselves without any reason. After further investigation, it has been discovered that the systems contained some sort of spyware which ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DirectX 10 (In)Compatible Hardware Brought a World of Pain on Vista Users
	Windows Vista was launched for businesses in November 2006 and to the general consumers in January 2007. It took Microsoft well over a year to produce the first service pack for the operating system, thus delivering a comprehensive sign that the platform has reached a level of maturity that recommends it even to the hardcore Windows XP users. And in this regard, SP1 could mean the end of Microsoft sabotaging its own Windows Vista ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 16:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Open Source ATI 6.8.0 Driver Released
	The open source ATI 6.8.0 driver was released yesterday, after a long time in the making. Some of the major improvements include Radeon support for r5xx, rs6xx and r6xx chips, using ATOMBIOS, the porting of mach64, r128 and radeon to libpciaccess and improved BIOS/driver interaction on Radeon. ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Reports are In: 100 Million Graphics Chips Sold in Q4
	The graphics industry has nothing to worry about, or so claim the quarterly sales reports released by Jon Peddie Research (JPR). The market leaders are Nvidia and Intel, who accounted for a combined 77.1% of all graphics processors sold during the last three months of 2007. AMD's graphics division, ATI is right behind, but is experiencing dramatic shipment decline and market share loss. It seems that more than 106.4 milli ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 04:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Radeon HD 3450, HD 3470 and HD 3650, Coming Out Next Month
	AMD is going to release its second wave of graphics cards to complete the Radeon 3000 series. The only details that have emerged on the web are concerning the Radeon HD 3870 X2, AMD's first video card that is alleged to feature two GPUs bridged by a PCI-Express 2.0 link. The low-end 3400 and 3600 graphics cards have been kept in complete dark, and their specifications haven't been posted anywhere. Both Radeon HD 3450 ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Work on a New PCIe Bridge
	AMD has recently attended the "Analyst Day" conference, where the Wall Street analysts judged the company's failure on the market. As every "convict" that is the target of harsh accusation, AMD laid their cards on the table. The "investigators" managed to squeeze interesting names in the company's roadmap, such as the "Montreal" processor, or the "Piranha" server platform. The chi ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Delays the ATI R700 Graphics Chips
	AMD have announced that they would rather not launch a new family of graphics processors the next year, as previously planned. The company made the decision of delaying the ATI R700 graphics chips in order to cut capital expenditures and return to profitability in the shortest time. The graphics division is already under threat, as Nvidia continues to deliver new series of graphics processors on the market. Rick Bergman, the ... [read more >>]
	15 December 2007, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Has a Bad Year, Ruiz Is to Take Financial Comfort
	There is no secret that AMD have just reached the financial pit's bottom and have started scratching their way to the surface, but there's a long way ahead until they reach a zero balance. Profits are still out of discussion and it would take a new generation of CPUs to make AMD return to the rich people. The company yesterday went crying on the shoulders of New York Stock Exchange analysts and thold them how badly ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI's Hybrid Crossfire, under the Scope
	ATI previewed today the Hybrid Crossfire specifications in an early test regarding the hardware that is alleged to power the non-professional gaming sector. The hybrid technology refers to pairing an integrated graphics processor with a discrete one, to achieve higher performance at lower costs. Integrated GPUs are known for their increased latency when gaming or executing video-intensive jobs. It would be impossible for the ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD, Disappointed with ATI
	AMD confirmed that they will take the "goodwill impairment charge" over the ATI takeover, since the company's goodwill value was impaired. AMD spokespersons said that the company "concluded that the current carrying value of its goodwill which the Company had recorded as a result of its October 2006 acquisition of ATI Technologies Inc. was impaired." The conclusion was drawn by company's financia ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell's XPS 420 to Feature CableCard TV Tuner
	Dell has announced that they are going to add a digital cable tuner to their XPS 420 computer, just like the previous release, the 410, featured. The XPS 420 workstation comes with an ATI TV Wonder digital cable tuner that adds an extra $180 to the final price per system, less than half the price Sony has imposed for their TV Tuner series. The Dell pick is a common cable tuner, chosen to add as less price load as possible to ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's RV635, to Feature the New DisplayPort Interface
	There have been a lot of rumors and suppositions about AMD's RV635 XT board, the world's first graphics card to provide the new digital display interface, dubbed DisplayPort by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The new interface is alleged to replace the old and not-so-efficient DVI and VGA connections in the near future. Based on a micro-packet architecture, the DisplayPort is supposed to deliver ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sapphire HD 3850 ULTIMATE Edition Is Here!
	Sapphire Technolog have just announced the industry's fastest graphics card to feature passive cooling. The new video card runs at 828MHz (1.66GHz effective) and has a core clock speed of 668MHz. The 256 MB of GDDR3 should suffice for mainstream use. The card comes with the ATI Avivo Technology for crisp and clear images, while the built in UVD (Unified Video decoder) allows hardware-accelerated Blu-Ray media decoding, which sensibly ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The New Radeon Processors Are Going Multi-Core
	AMD has been reported to change the classical approach towards their GPUs in the forthcoming R700 series. The nowadays GPUs use parallelism for heavy computing, while preserving their monolithic structure and the same number of stream processors, texture units and so on. AMD is determined to give up the current technology in favor of a multi-core architecture. The R700 cards will all feature GPUs with variable numbers of R700 ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Sacrifice CEO Hector Ruiz
	There is no doubt that AMD has had a tough year, which reflected in over $1.5 billion US loss and multiple delays in releasing the company's first quad-core processor. The Intel competitors always seemed one step ahead of them, while they were busy taking up the ATI business. The recent unveiling of the Phenom processor caught AMD by surprise when the 9700 series had to be pulled off the shelves due to an issue with TLB erra ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Alienware's New Area-51 ALX Desktop System: Power of the Overclocked Quad-Core Intel Penryn Unleashed
	Alienware has been creating specialized, high-end, gaming-oriented rigs for quite some time now, providing certain configurations that really sound "alien" to most normal users. And now the "alien" engineers have come up with yet another technical marvel, because the company has just announced the Area-51 ALX desktop with the new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, the first 45nm desktop processor. Furthermore, they ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Launch the RV670 GPU on November 19th
	The long awaited AMD GPU using the 55 nm technology, the RV670, has just been tagged with a November 19th stamp on its back according to American Technology Research's Doug Freedman. According to some sources, the GPU that will be launched will wear the ATI Radeon HD 3800 moniker, while others name it the ATI Radeon HD 2950 Pro, but the thing that everyone agrees on is that this will most probably be the 55 nm version of the R600 core ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 16:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AIGLX Support from AMD
	After a month since AMD released a Radeon HD 2000 R600 Linux driver, they have launched another one that provides AIGLX support used for Compiz ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Next Generation Radeon Will Come on The 15th of November
	Advanced Micro Devices's graphics division, the formerly the independent computer hardware manufacturing company ATI, is not really know among the computer users as the most timing inclined and abiding outfit in the industry, but it looks like things are a little different right now as a number of sources are reporting that the preparations for the launch of the next generation of Radeon discrete graphics units are right on track. ... [read more >>]
	15 October 2007, 12:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sapphire Ups Its Radeon HD 2900 Pro
	Sapphire has announced the launch of a graphics card that is powered by the Advanced Micro Devices built Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing unit but which comes with 1GB of dedicated video memory that works at a higher clock speed than previous models. Based on the 80 nanometer fabrication process the Radeon HD 2900 Pro comes with no less than 700 million transistors while using a unified superscalar shader architecture and being Direc ... [read more >>]
	15 October 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Planning to Dual Core The RV670
	Traditionally a graphics card comes with a single graphics processing unit and in some case users needing extra performance in games and other 3D intensive applications can join up two or more such cards in order to form multiple setups like CrossFire for AMD/ATI cards and SLI for cards based on Nvidia made processors. As the number of cards that can be stacked into a SLI or CrossFire configuration is somehow limited, an alter ... [read more >>]
	06 October 2007, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Prepares The Radeon 2900 GT
	After the graphics division from Advanced Micro Devices quietly announced the launch of the downgraded version of the Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics processing chip that will be available under the name of Radeon HD 2900 Pro and serve as a bridge across the performance gap that spans between the 2600 and 2900 series, now it looks like yet another lower performance version of the 2900 GPU is in the making. This new graphics processing[ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	27 September 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Radeon HD 2900 Pro, Viewed from The AMD Perspective
	After much discussion and many rumors flying around on the World Wide Web, Advanced Micro Devices finally announced the official launch of the Radeon HD 2900 Pro range of products that are intended to be used as a bridge between the performance and the mainstream market segments. While these graphics cards are packing some serious performance boosts over other similar solutions, they will only be available in limited quantities and for a s ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top of The Line Club 3D Graphics Card Announced
	Club 3D just announced the launch of a new high end discrete graphics card aimed at gamers and computer enthusiasts and this brand new product is based on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing unit. This new card is the implementation of the AMD/ATI R600 graphics processing unit that comes with a core clock of 600MHz while providing enough performance for the high end market segment. Thanks to its new R600 GPU this Cl ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 10:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Huge Irony? Intel Server Mainboards with AMD Graphics
	Intel presented a lot of interesting products and features at this year's Intel Developer Forum and the first place was taken by the upcoming generation of central processing units, just like it was expected. Right after that, Intel also presented a number of innovative technologies and even some portions of its roadmaps, concerning not only the desktop and notebook computing platforms, but also the server market segment. It is wel ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 12:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's RV670 Based Graphics Cards Approaching
	Sometimes it looks as if the entire computer hardware manufacturing industry is floating on a huge sea of rumors and half formed opinions as there are so many hearsays about some many deployed or yet to be launched components that is practically impossible to keep track with all of them. For those die hard AMD and ATI fans that are waiting for the next generation graphics processing units from AMD there are a few good news bas ... [read more >>]
	22 September 2007, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIS Goes Turbo with The Radeon HD 2600Pro
	HIS announced today the launch of another graphics card based on the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro GPU which is aimed somewhere between the middle end and high level market segments because, while the graphics chip that powers it is better suited for middle level applications, its fast clock settings are approaching those typically found only in high end products. Apart from the high graphics core and memory speeds, the new HIS Radeon HD 2 ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Releases New Open-Source Linux Driver
	The RadeonHD driver has been released yesterday and it's being hosted on FreeDesktop.org. This new driver is the result of AMD's cooperation with Novell, supporting the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) group. Although it has a lot of improvements, there's still much work to be done. The RadeonHD driver is mainly written by the Novell/S ... [read more >>]
	18 September 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIS Announced a Radeon 2900Pro Graphics Card
	The R600 graphics processing unit together with several of its variations is found on the latest AMD family of graphics cards which are available under the commercial name of Radeon HD 2xxx. This product line, ranging from the entry level Radeon HD 2000 to the extreme performance Radeon HD 2900XT, was created as a response to Nvidia's GeForce 8xxx line. Fully compatible at a hardware level with the latest specifications of the DirectX ... [read more >>]
	17 September 2007, 02:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Very First VGA Cooler from Akasa
	Most graphics cards are coming nowadays with active cooling solutions that are cleverly designed and offer a wide range of features that will help them do their job better: keep your hot graphics processing unit cool. While there will always be cards equipped with passive cooling systems that rely solely on their heat dissipation surface to do the job, the hot parts of these cards, mainly the graphics processing units and the video memorie ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.41.7 Display Driver Released
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release is a bit special, as it is recommended to be used exclusively on ATI Radeon HD 2000 family. Moreover, AMD suggests to distributors to use the previous version (8.40.4) for distribution packages. Now the good news: this v ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 02:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Demo Right Here!
	Congratulations for clicking on this headline. In a few moments you'll be playing Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, as we've finally made available the free downloadable demo of the game right HERE, on Softpedia. Below, you have your basic system requirements, a little stuff o ... [read more >>]
	11 September 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Offers 4,000 Updates for 32- and 64-bit Vista on Top of ATI Radeon Graphics Cards
	There is a veritable flood of ATI Radeon graphics card updates available from Microsoft. In fact, the volume of driver updates designed to address both 32-bit and 64-bit copies of Windows Vista running on systems also using ATI Radeon graphics cards is close to 40,000, as Microsoft explained. In the recent period, Windows Vista, especially the x64 editions, have faced a veritable onslaught via the drivers associated with ATI Radeon graphic ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Prepares DirectX 10.1 Compliant Cheap Graphics Cards
	While the new Microsoft graphics API, DirectX 10.1, created a lot of unhappiness among gamers that recently purchased high level graphics cards, for computer hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD's graphics division the new DirectX versions means an opportunity to tout their technologies and launch a new line of products, ranging from the expensive high end solutions, to the affordable middle level cards and to the downright chea ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 09:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Symantec Educates Microsoft on x64 Windows Vista Update
	Microsoft seems to be in need of some education related to its Windows Update practices and Symantec seems more than happy to oblige it. The issue is related to the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and the mandatory driver signing mitigation introduced by Microsoft in order to safeguard the operating system's core from unsigned code. All kernel modules on systems running the x64 editions of Windows Vista must feature digital signature ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Accuses Nvidia of Cheating
	Benchmarking is one of the most widely used methods of testing out the relative performance of one or another hardware component and establishing which company makes the best products from a given price and functionality range. Or at least that's how it is supposed to be as there were a number of flawed benchmarks in the past that were optimized for certain class of hardware products while clearly reducing the performance and thus the ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sapphire Will Soon Launch Another Dual-GPU Graphics Card
	Graphics cards arranged in multiple units setups are not something out of the ordinary but 'traditional' configurations like Nvidia's SLI or ATI's CrossFire technologies have a number of bad parts like the need to buy two or more graphics cards ( a very big money sucking trend), lots of power needed for stable operation and a compatible mainboard. For users not having all of the above, the traditional setup may or may n ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Low Cost DirectX Cards Selling in Droves
	Graphics cards can be easily split into two large categories: discrete and integrated into the chipset cards. While until very recently discrete graphics cards were the incontestable kings of performance and efficiency and they were having a field day, now as the mobile computing systems are starting to sell better than desktops, the integrated kind takes the lead, partly because of increases in technology which bring quite enough performa ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Issues with ATI Graphics Cards
	As I said yesterday, in order to obtain best results from Google Earth you need to have at least a 32 MB graphics card. But somehow, even if you own a more powerful hardware device, you encounter problems with the mapping tool. So, how can we fix th ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Diamond-made Professional Graphics Cards
	Diamond Multimedia is a well-known and liked hardware manufacturing company in the United States which focuses itself on high-end graphics cards targeted at gamers and related multimedia products. After years of developing both gaming and professional graphics cards, the company retired from the professional market and concentrated exclusively on the gaming and multimedia businesses. Now, it looks like the Diamond company is back on the ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GECUBE GEMINI 3 – World's First Dual GPU Radeon HD2600XT Card
	Integrating dual graphics processing units on the very same video card is not really hot news as the technology to do this and much more has already been around for a number of years. This approach of integrating two graphics processing units on the same card comes with some advantages over the more traditional multi card setups like SLI or CrossFire as it ultimately allows users to gain more performance in games or other graphics intensiv ... [read more >>]
	01 September 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Launches a High-End AGP Graphics Card
	In a world dominated by PCI Express graphics cards and multi graphics setups like the Nvidia's SLI or AMD/ ATI's CrossFire it looks as if there is still a quite strong demand for AGP based video cards. Nvidia, the green goblin of the graphics market, announced a long time ago that it dropped the AGP standard for good considering it obsolete but ATI stated that the old graphics standard still has some juice left as the n ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HIS Launches The HD 2600XT iSilenceIII
	HIS announced the launch of an ATI based graphics card, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII, which features a Zalman cooling solution with heatpipes and DDR3 video memory modules. Because of the completely noiseless cooling solution employed by the manufacturing company, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII is perfect as a multimedia appliance that fully supports the HD 1080P high definition video standard. HIS Radeon HD 2600XT iSile ... [read more >>]
	28 August 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Affordable ATI Radeon HD 2900 Cards
	The graphics cards market is almost entirely dominated by Nvidia, the green goblin of the computer industry, at least on the high-end segment. While ATI cards were never far behind and on some occasions, they were taking the lead in the performance and image quality departments, overall, Nvidia is the most important graphics cards manufacturer and vendor with high end graphics chips that are enjoying a lot of popularity. Tradi ... [read more >>]
	24 August 2007, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GeCube's Radeon HD 2400 Pro AGP8X
	In a world centered on increased performance, at least in the computer hardware department, it looks as if old standards for hardware components die and are buried in a rather speedy manner. Or some stay around as a niche market long after the replacement standard which features massive improvements, has arrived. This is the case with the old AGP, the shorthand for accelerated graphics ports, which reached the venerable 4th revis ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus Launches Two New Graphics Cards
	Asus announced the launch of two new high-end graphics cards, the EAH2600PRO/HTDI/256M based on an AMD chip and the EN8600GT/HTDI/256M card that is based on an Nvidia graphics processing unit. Both of these graphics cards are featuring high quality bundled HDMI adapters that are certified by HDMI Licensing. Asus included the HDMI adapte ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 04:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.40.4 Display Driver Released
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release brings new features such as: TV Out Functionality and Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition. The TV out functionality was made available under Linux OS for all ATI video cards that support TV Out (composite, component vi ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Defective Radeons? No way!
	Rumors surfaced on many news web sites about a batch of defective Radeon video chips that AMD's graphics division (formerly the ATI company) shipped to several hardware manufacturers. The rumors spoke about a defect in the BIOS chip of several thousands Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 graphics chips due to a faulty flashing procedure that left the cards unable to use their UVD units. According to the news site ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 09:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia