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AMD Updates Athlon II Family with Eight New Processors

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the debut of a couple of new desktop processors, part of the company's extending line of Athlon II chips. With Windows 7 just around the corner, these new parts are expected to provide system builders and users alike with a choice for an affo...

20 October 2009
03:58 GMT

eMachines Intros New SFF Desktop PCs

Acer's eMachines has just announced the introduction of two new small form factor desktop PCs, part of its latest EL1300 series of desktop systems. In addition, the system vendor also announced the launch of a new 18.5-inch widescreen LCD, specifically designed to go along with the EL1300 series of PCs. Both mod...

21 May 2009
02:28 GMT

AMD Rolls Out Kuma-Based Athlon X2 7850BE

In addition to the launch of its highly anticipated Radeon HD 4770, AMD's first 40nm desktop GPU, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker also rolled out a new product, part of its successful line of Athlon X2 processors. Simply dubbed Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition, the company's new dual-core processor i...

29 April 2009
04:02 GMT

AMD to Add More AM3 Processors in April

Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker, AMD has just recently announced a series of new Phenom II processors, coming with support for both AM2+ and AM3 sockets. However, the company is already expected to further expand its line of 45nm-based processors, by introducing new models from its Phenom II and Athlon range o...

10 February 2009
04:08 GMT

Phenom II Chips Already Listed, AMD Kills Older CPUs

According to the latest news on the web, Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Phenom II processors have already appeared at online retailers, although the company has not officially introduced them yet. The new Phenom II X4 920, which runs at 2.8GHz and the Phenom II X4 940 running at 3GHz are displayed at prices ra...

28 December 2008
03:42 GMT

AMD Prolongs Life of Athlon Brand with 45nm Chips

According to the latest news on the Web, the world's second largest chip manufacturer, Advanced Micro Devices, is planning to bring back to life its well known Athlon brand with the revamped K10 micro-architecture. It seems that the almost ten year old brand will see new addition as soon as April 2009, and we�...

20 December 2008
05:00 GMT

NEC Intros All-in-One PowerMate P4000 and P6000

Recently, Japan's NEC has been creating quite a buzz in the world of computer systems, as it is said to have launched a new series of desktop computer systems, the PowerMate P series all-in-one desktop PCs. Part of the series, NEC has just announced two new systems, the P4000 and the P6000, which have been desig...

11 November 2008
10:54 GMT

Can AMD's Upcoming Athlons Beat Intel's Atom?

Intel's Atom processor, the small-sized, low power CPU that is featured in most of today's current netbooks is bound to get a new competitor, coming from the company's long-time rival, Sunnyvale-based AMD. As we mentioned in a number of our previous articles, AMD has been rumored to be working on new C...

11 September 2008
10:34 GMT

AMD to Release Atom Rival in November

It seems that AMD is finally determined to make a move against Intel's Atom processor. While the chip giant is said to release the first dual-core Atom sometime in October, the Sunnyvale company decided to make available as of November 65 nm Athlon microprocessors that would target the same market area as Intel&...

11 September 2008
03:17 GMT

AMD Cuts Prices for Quad-Core, Triple-Core and Dual-Core CPUs

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

Atom vs Athlon - Athlon Better

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

AMD Launches New Desktop Processors

Advanced Micro Devices prepares for the launch of its much awaited line of quad core central processing units, the Phenom class of products, but until then the hardware manufacturing company tries to capitalize as much as possible on the low cost and entry level performance market segments with a new range of offerin...

9 October 2007
05:00 GMT

AMD Moves in Mysterious Ways

The PC world loves competitions and head banging against the walls of performance and price, even more so at the very high end of the hardware spectrum. Every time a company launches a new processor, memory module, video card or whatever other piece of hardware you may think of, users gather around, observing benchma...

23 July 2007
05:43 GMT

AMD Schedules 45-watt Dual-cores and New Price Cuts

As if the latest Athlon 64 X2 CPUs weren't energy-efficient enough, AMD plans to release 45-watt versions for these CPUs. One of the reasons behind this move is that AMD intends to reposition the entire Athlon 64 X2 CPU family towards entry level users, immediately after the upcoming Phenom processors are releas...

30 May 2007
09:58 GMT

AMD Athlon to Get Renamed

In a frenzy of changes by major processor manufacturers, Advanced Micro Devices, which is one of them, should have the biggest effect over its faithful audience, changing the Athlon brand name.Even though this should be the least of their concerns at the present time, according to Polish website, pclab.pl, AMD is goi...

26 April 2007
03:13 GMT


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