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“Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It’s the fusion of CPU and GPU compute within one processor, significantly enhances active/resting battery life, and provides high bandwidth IO.” Joe Macri, AMD chief technology officer, said. Macri spoke of the project last week at a reviewer... |
13 November 2009
08:24 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has revealed details about one of its most anticipated products, namely the Llano microprocessor, which will combine a general-purpose x86 processor with an integrated graphics engine. Slated to debut sometime in 2011, according to the company's latest roadmap, ... |
12 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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The people at VMware have just issued the new version of their virtualization solution for Mac OS X, VMware Fusion 3. Announced last month, and slated for release on October 27, the new installment is highly optimized for the latest Mac OS version, and claims to provide “the ultimate Windows 7 experience.&rdquo... |
27 October 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Device is said to be planning to launch its first 'Fusion' chips, featuring and integrated GPU and CPU core on the same chip, which will be manufactured using a 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process technology. There have been many rumors about said chips, but it... |
16 October 2009
09:25 GMT |
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VMware, Inc. has announced VMware Fusion 3, a new version of its professional-class virtualization solution for Mac OS X. Dubbed as “the Best Way to Run Windows on the Mac,” VMware Fusion 3 will be available worldwide on October 27. Interested parties can secure their copy by pre-ordering the new version ... |
6 October 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, one of the world's leading vendors of computer processors and platforms, has just announced the debut of its new AMD Fusion Partner Program. Coming as the company's first ever global partner program to provide its channel partners with the tools and resour... |
30 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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The people at VMware Inc. have issued a new beta update to their powerful virtualization solution for Mac OS , VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion allows Intel Macs to run x86 operating systems, like Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in a virtual machine, side by side with Mac OS X. The release of VMware Fusion 2.0.6 Bet... |
25 September 2009
06:34 GMT |
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There's no doubt about the fact that the PC market has evolved significantly over the last years, with notebooks selling better than desktops and computer processors boasting new, more energy-efficient microarchitectures. The world's leading chip makers, Intel and AMD, are expected to update their CPU portf... |
7 September 2009
04:39 GMT |
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One of the biggest announcements made by Nintendo for the hardcore crowd at its E3 press conference was that of the development of Metroid: Other M, the long awaited new chapter in the story of Samus Aran.The big surprise has been that the game is being developed by Team Ninja and that it is coming for the Nintendo W... |
18 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Soon after AMD officially announced the purchase of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, the computer processor manufacturer revealed its plans to develop a fusion chip that would combine an x86 processing core and a graphics core, to provide the end-user with an alternative solution to a low-power computer system. ... |
21 April 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of interviewing AMD's John Swinimer, public relations manager for the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker, who told us a couple of interesting facts about some of the company's upcoming products, including the much anticipated APUs (Accelerated Processing Units). Th... |
10 April 2009
03:15 GMT |
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The latest news on the web reveals a few more details on AMD's forthcoming Dragon platform, the logo it will bear, to be more precise. The logo for the company's platform shows a dark dragon with red glowing eyes holding the AMD Fusion badge. Moreover, the news also unveils the slogan the company will use f... |
24 November 2008
03:17 GMT |
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A group of experts from all over the world have used powerful laser technology to recreate the extreme conditions inside planetary cores or stellar surfaces. Besides the obvious consequence that this study may have on the general comprehension of the formation and evolution of the solar system and, ultimately, the un... |
24 October 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Last Thursday, Advanced Micro debuted its new “The Future is Fusion” campaign, whose main purpose is to inform users about the different technologies and products coming from the Sunnyvale, California-based company. Moreover, the Fusion campaign is also meant to provide details of how AMD's pro... |
22 September 2008
05:59 GMT |
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AMD, which is currently the number two competitor in the computer processor market, has announced today the introduction of its new corporate brand campaign, which follows a catchy new tagline, "The Future is Fusion." As the company explained, the new campaign is meant to provide users with details on AMD's prod... |
18 September 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Remember those "old" cassette players that once represented the center of any car audio system? Well, although they're long gone now (at least from modern vehicles), it would seem that they've served as a model for the device you're about to see as follows, namely the CA-IP500 Head Unit from Fusion, a ... |
22 August 2008
13:26 GMT |
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Results of computer simulations carried out at the Nagoya University, Japan show that, in the outcome of the tremendously energetic event that gave rise to what we now call the universe, ripples propagating through matter caused clouds of gas to condense and collapse, so as to form the first objects to shine visible ... |
1 August 2008
03:49 GMT |
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The Vulcan laser, currently the most powerful in the world, was used recently to test future nuclear fusion reactor concepts. During the experiments Vulcan was able to heat matter to a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun which is averaging about 5,500 degrees Celsius. The rel... |
19 May 2008
09:17 GMT |
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The Taiwanese AMD subsidiary spilled the beans earlier this week on the company's APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), also known as the Fusion chip. As its name suggests, Fusion is a new breed of chips, similar to Intel's Larrabee project, which combines both GPU and CPU technologies onto a single silicon di... |
16 May 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly in talks with Taiwanese semiconductor TMSC regarding the fabrication of AMD's upcoming Fusion processor. The manufacturer has been producing its graphics processors at its foundry partners for some time now and it seems that it will take the same approach with its upcoming CP... |
13 May 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices' chief technology officer, Phil Hester, has just stepped down. The news was broken by one of the company's spokespersons, who also said that Hester will not be replaced yet. The resignation is effective immediately, as the ex-CTO is "looking to do new things."Hester was recruited by t... |
12 April 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Graphene, the material discovered by professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov in 2004, was recently used by researchers from The University of Manchester to make direct measurements on the fundamental constants of the universe. The research conducted by professor Andre Geim, took place at The School of Physics an... |
4 April 2008
02:52 GMT |
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Stars spend most of their lives burning hydrogen through nuclear fusion reactions to produce the energy required to remain stable as long as possible. By doing so, two hydrogen atoms are fused together to create a single helium atom and a fair amount of energy. However, at some point in time, the star will begin proc... |
21 March 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Intel's upcoming Nehalem micro-architecture is expected to get under the microscope at this year's Intel Developers Forum conference, that will take place in Shanghai, China. The company has provided the press with an architectural update to its roadmap during yesterday's pre-briefing, but more details... |
18 March 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Integrating graphics cores inside CPUs has triggered yet another competition between Intel and AMD. The latter company has been working on its Fusion chip for quite some time now, and it seems that the company's need for producing graphics cores has pushed it into buying the Canada-based ATI.AMD's upcoming ... |
14 March 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Bringing the Sun to Earth, that's what nuclear physicists dream of today. The imminent depletion of fossil fuels, the inefficiency of renewable power sources and dangers posed by the use of nuclear fissionable fuels point to only one future energy-production solution, nuclear fusion. More than two thirds of the ... |
3 March 2008
05:09 GMT |
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There is no doubt that the cheap, Linux-based ultra-portable computers will get a new lease of life with the advent of Intel's Diamondville processors. Based on the Silverthorne architecture with a small die size and ultra-low power consumption, the Diamondville will get widely adopted by the upcoming UMPC crea... |
29 February 2008
05:19 GMT |
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If you are thinking that shifting from 32-bit software to the 64-bit version is a pain in the back, consider this: the next revolution in the processor world will require a complete rewrite of the existing code. Advanced Micro Devices claims that the actual software will have to be flushed out in order to leave room ... |
13 February 2008
10:00 GMT |
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It is largely speculated throughout the astrophysical community that the first stars might have been created out of dark matter, albeit while we mostly know nothing about dark matter and dark energy, what it is made of and its properties, now a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan, Katherine Freese, pr... |
13 February 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices came with further details regarding the upcoming Fusion processor line. According to the company, the chip will power especially gaming computers or desktop systems targeted at the enthusiast market.The Fusion processor is a mixed breed of chips that will combine a graphics pr... |
25 January 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer AMD have revealed their two-year product roadmap that features new CPU architectures to put an end to the company's miserable year. AMD promises to deliver their first eight-core processor oriented towards the server market as well as a new category of desktop-level CPUs to include their "accel... |
14 December 2007
03:44 GMT |
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During the year's edition of the Intel Developer Forum, the largest computer hardware manufacturing company in the world presented a number of technologies and upcoming hardware components like central processing units and the like which are said to hit the market in the following years. One of those presented p... |
21 September 2007
04:19 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to integrate at some point or another the central and the graphics processing units into a single package, a move that should allow the hardware manufacturing company to offer a much more performance centered integrated graphics platform, while at the same time, the ''Fusion... |
20 September 2007
10:03 GMT |
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The idea behind AMD's Fusion chip, a combination between a central processing unit and graphics processing chip, is certainly nothing new as Advanced Micro Devices touted this approach for sometime now but until this moment there is no palpable product and the first chips are expected only in the last part of 20... |
11 September 2007
11:16 GMT |
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AMD looks forward to the integration and merging of the two most complex computer parts, the central processing unit and the graphics processor, as this step would bring better graphics quality and capabilities, while presenting end users with the ability to run more parallel centered software applications that are b... |
23 August 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better known as TSMC to the world) is a company that contracts the manufacturing of different computer hardware parts from their original designers that have not enough production facilities. This works great for both parties involved, as the original manufacturers can brin... |
6 August 2007
08:05 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC for short) is one of the largest chip makers that have no product of their own. They work on a contract, manufacturing computer chips or other parts of hardware for different brands. It's almost like a hardware outsourcing process. TSMC appears to have started work on... |
27 July 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Giuseppe Amato is the technical director of sales and marketing within the AMD company and he is involved in the distribution of AMD products on the European, African and Middle Eastern markets. In an interview with the hardware news site HWUpgrade, he talked about the new Fusion platform.While he firmly stated that ... |
17 July 2007
09:37 GMT |
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There were rumors some time ago that Beryl and Compiz projects will unite in the hope of a better future, but last night the development team behind the new project has finally announced the new name of the Beryl/Compiz merge and they've also made public the first video preview (see it at the end of the article... |
21 June 2007
06:47 GMT |
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On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was released over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium-based weapon, "Fat Man", was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. They were the first (and only) nuclear attacks in history.Officially, the first nuclear test - code-named "Trinity" -... |
11 June 2007
11:06 GMT |
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One step closer to a high-yield fusion reactor: a new, revolutionary electrical circuit should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion. But wait, there's more: it can do it every 10 seconds. Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine is already the largest pr... |
26 April 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Dr. Falk Herwig, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria, BC Canada, used swirling computer simulations which are reminiscent of Van Gogh's star paintings, to show the interior of a star during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, the final stage of a low- and intermediate-m... |
19 April 2007
08:50 GMT |
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In March 1989, cold fusion was brought into popular consciousness by the controversy surrounding the Fleischmann-Pons experiment, when "cold fusion" was hailed as a scientific breakthrough with the potential to solve the world's energy problems by providing a virtually unlimited energy source. It was dismissed ... |
31 March 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Some time ago, AMD was touting a new revolutionary concept, called Torrenza, which included a second type of processor as a mathematical co-processor, capable of performing specialized calculations similar to a GPU. The plan revealed a two-processor platform, connected through the soon to come Hyper Transport 3 spec... |
20 March 2007
06:10 GMT |
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Plasma is a very hot, ionized gas that conducts electricity and has a main role in the fabric of stars. The principle is simple: if we heat hydrogen ions to the point of ignition, they could fuse into helium and this fusion could be a clean, sustainable and endless energy source. And if the Sun does it, converting 40... |
10 March 2007
08:51 GMT |
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