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It seems that Acer is not the only company with thoughts of changing its business direction, as Advanced Micro Devices also seems to be seriously considering a more bold approach to the tablet segment.Advanced Micro Devices has been without a Chief Executive Officer for a fairly long time now.Granted, an interim has... |
8 April 2011
09:40 GMT |
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As one of the worlds better known suppliers of PCs, ASUS has to always exploit every opportunity, and this happens to include AMD's Fusion platform, which lies at the heart of two new entry-level laptops.Netbooks are known for their low-end hardware, low prices (compared to other mobile PCs) and their screen si... |
7 April 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has just announced that the company has started shipping the very first batch of Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) to its OEM partners and that the first desktops and notebooks built around these processors are expected to reach the market by the end of the second quarter 2011.
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5 April 2011
02:08 GMT |
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Micro-Star International has once again assumed its role as purveyor of all kinds of computers, in this case having supplied part of the worldwide market with a certain machine that has only been official in North America for about a week.Like so many other companies, Micro-Star International hasn't been doing ... |
1 April 2011
04:06 GMT |
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It looks like laptops really are starting to get launched again, even those that don't use Intel's infamous Sandy Bridge CPUs, like MSI's X370, which is powered by the AMD Fusion Brazos platform and boasts the E-350 APU.Advanced Micro Devices, back at the start of the year, finally made a strong case ... |
30 March 2011
06:14 GMT |
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AMD's first generation of Fusion chips has really managed to capture the attention of the whole computing industry, but this may just be the beginning as reports seem to suggest that Samsung, together with other companies, is planning to release an important number of Llano-powered notebooks in the summer of 201... |
30 March 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Now that new games are being made and BDXL disks allow for larger PS3 titles, among other things, companies are considering processing platforms for the next generation of game consoles, and it looks like AMD wants in on the cake.Nowadays, there is a serious performance difference between game consoles (Xbox and PS3... |
28 March 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Just when we though that we had a firm date for Llano's release and that everything is gearing up for a July launch, a semiconductor analyst at financial consultants Sterne Agee comes forward to claim that the company will actually start to ship its second generation Fusion APU to major PC vendors, including HP ... |
24 March 2011
16:01 GMT |
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It really looks like the IT market is getting back to its routine of getting supplied with new devices on a regular basis, now that even MSI is letting loose with both Intel and AMD-powered products, in this case an AiO. End-users keeping track of happenings on the consumer market will have most likely seen that, al... |
24 March 2011
10:59 GMT |
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They say there is a first time for everything, and it looks like Micro-Star International just performed a feat that had no precedent for it, namely release a mobile personal computer powered by AMD's Fusion architecture.Advanced Micro Devices may not have filled the industry with mainstream or stronger APUs (a... |
24 March 2011
10:13 GMT |
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It looks like AMD's chips with integrated graphics are expanding their horizons, as they are now showing up in less ordinary devices, like a certain digital signage media player developed by iBASE.One might remember that Advanced Micro Devices unleashed its low-cost Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) ea... |
24 March 2011
06:25 GMT |
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The laptop market may be expected to grow by 50% now that Intel CPUs and chipsets are shipping more or less normally again, but AMD-powered machines have been coming out in the meantime without any problem, two of them, made by ASUS, having now been listed.The ironic part about the whole episode with Intel's 6-... |
23 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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That AMD solutions have started to be used in tablets is already common knowledge, more or less, but it looks like the company will not follow some of its peers as far as software availability is concerned.With all the hype surrounding the tablet segment, there are few PC and smartphone makers that haven't at l... |
23 March 2011
03:27 GMT |
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AMD may have, so far, unleashed APUs only for the entry-level market, but it won't be too long before mainstream chips show up, at which point the company actually expects them to start challenging regular CPUs.Zacate and Ontario processors aren't all that magnificent in terms of raw processing (though sti... |
21 March 2011
03:58 GMT |
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It seems that Advanced Micro Devices definitely doesn't plan to let the tablet market slip through its grasp, having decided to push its Fusion technology in this segment as arduously as possible.When looking at how Advanced Micro Devices is dealing with the tablet industry, one might draw the conclusion that i... |
18 March 2011
05:34 GMT |
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AMD has just announced that its Radeon graphics cards, as well as Fusion APUs, offer hardware-based graphics acceleration in Microsoft's IE9 browser, enabling the company to deliver a rich multimedia experience without having to give up on battery life or increase the power demand of the system.
Compared to o... |
17 March 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Netbooks may have been selling less and less because of the tablet market, but they are far from through, especially now that AMD is challenging Intel on the mobile front by scoring design winds like ASUS' Eee PC 1015B and 1215B netbooks.Makers of laptops have been struck hard recently, what with the Intel 6-se... |
11 March 2011
08:39 GMT |
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After it managed to score a huge success with the introduction of the first generation of Fusion chips, AMD has recently announced that more than 50 mainstream software applications are now accelerated by its new APUs (accelerated processing units).This allows the software programs to use the computational horsepowe... |
7 March 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Developed especially for high-performance laptops and mainstream desktops, AMD's upcoming Llano processors will be available in at least three different SKUs as the company plans to offer both dual-core and quad-core chips as well as different on-die graphics.
This latest report comes from Fudzilla, which cla... |
4 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Last year some may not have expected it, but it looks like AMD really is showing some daring and prowess on the mobile front, especially with the various devices based on its Brazos platform that were brought over to CeBIT 2011.Until the middle of last year, Advanced Micro Devices had practically no noticeable stake... |
4 March 2011
10:49 GMT |
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It seems that even though announcements at CeBIT are fewer than one would expect, AMD was still able to turn some heads by entering its Fusion architecture into one of the largest markets in the world, the one in Cina to be exact.As consumers no doubt know, Advanced Micro Devices now has its own means of competing i... |
2 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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It would appear that recent events on the IT market have created conditions that placed Advanced Micro Devices in the position where it can't meet APU demand, so it seems it increased orders with TSMC for APUs.End-users that have been following the news will know that, last month, both Intel and Advanced Micro ... |
22 February 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Every time a company or another gains an award of some sort, it is only natural that it would issue a press release as a means to celebrate, and AMD seems to have done just this sort of thing.Each year, many trade shows are held, but so are conferences meant to establish which IT company excelled in certain areas.Th... |
18 February 2011
09:25 GMT |
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It would appear that, even though it was launched weeks ago, the Fusion platform from Advanced Micro Devices is not really widely available, at least not in motherboards selling through retail channels.As end-users know, Advanced Micro Devices, early this year (before CES in fact) unleashed its long-awaited Fusion a... |
18 February 2011
09:12 GMT |
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When it was first introduced by Ageia back in 2004, hardware accelerated physics seemed like it had the potential to transform the whole gaming industry, but now, almost seven years thereafter, the whole excitement that surrounded the technology seems to have died down. However, GPU physics could return to the center... |
18 February 2011
09:07 GMT |
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CyberLink has just announced that it has released new updates for its PowerDVD, PowerDirector, MediaShow and MediaEspresso applications which now enables hardware accelerated video playback, transcoding and rendering on the AMD Fusion family of processors.
The updates can be downloaded free of charge by all those ... |
18 February 2011
05:30 GMT |
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It would appear that Gigabyte has gotten around to sending a certain motherboard based on AMD's new platform to European stores, complete with an APU and endurance-boosting features.Gigabyte is always working on some new motherboard or another, and it seems that, this once, it chose to go for an AMD platform.Gr... |
18 February 2011
03:52 GMT |
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AMD may not have scored as many mobile design wins as Intel, but its Fusion architecture still got adopted fairly well, and Acer made a point of bringing a netbook based on one such chip at MWC 2011.The Acer Aspire One 522 doesn't exactly fit the category of new devices getting their first real demonstration at... |
15 February 2011
04:14 GMT |
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AMD and Adobe have recently announced that the company's recently released Fusion APUs fully support hardware acceleration for Flash videos and are able to playback content encoded at resolutions as high as 1080p.
Flash video files playback is one of the most taxing tasks that a CPU can run and low-power proc... |
9 February 2011
15:31 GMT |
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In a classical case of one company's curse is another one's miracle, it seems that, unsurprisingly, AMD is reaping benefits from how Intel and its partners found themselves selling faulty motherboards.As end-users no doubt know, Intel recently found that all of the motherboards so far built with its 6-Seri... |
9 February 2011
10:03 GMT |
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AMD's Fusion platform will certainly impact the evolution of the IT market over the course of 2011, and the latest numbers coming from the market seem to support this possibility, given the fact that the company's already shipped up to a million chips to its partners.Given the fact that there are multiple s... |
9 February 2011
06:45 GMT |
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It seems like AMD has changed its plans regarding the release of the Llano APU line as multiple sources confirm that the company now aims to launch its second generation Fusion chips sometime in May, instead of early Q3 as most of the rumors implied.
Previously, AMD planned for Llano to enter mass production in Ju... |
8 February 2011
15:31 GMT |
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ASRock has recently been revealed to have scored big on the mainboard market, more or less, and it looks like it wants to keep going up, even if it means being the first to supply a Fusion platform priced at under 100 Euro.The AMD Fusion technology is an architecture which powers APUs (accelerated processing units),... |
1 February 2011
05:21 GMT |
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During a press event that took place in Singapore this week AMD has showcased a 5W version of its dual-core Ontario C-50 APU that is especially designed to be used in tablets and other low power devices.
Introduced at the beginning of this month during CES 2011, the Ontario C-50 APU is part of AMD's Fusion fa... |
28 January 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Giada has long been a supplier of small form factor computers and, while its announcements aren't overly frequent, they sometimes manage to make the headlines anyway, this once by making use of AMD's recently lunched Fusion platform.As end-users know, Advanced Micro Devices officially released the Fusion m... |
28 January 2011
06:13 GMT |
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While tablets are currently seen as mostly travel companions and such, Advanced Micro Devices expects them to gradually gain usefulness as home electronics, thus acting as a door for further adoption of x86 chips.With all the promise seen in the slate market, it did not come as a surprise to hear that AMD, like so m... |
28 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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It is a given that any platform would have both advantages and drawbacks, but an overall good impression eventually separates the promising from the not very promising, and a certain MSI motherboard has supposedly been classified as the former.As consumers know, the AMD Fusion platform was finally outright launched ... |
25 January 2011
07:37 GMT |
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With all the new releases of laptops based on the latest Intel and AMD CPUs, there isn't really a shortage of new and good mobile computers, but a certain news about a Toshiba laptop still caused conflicting feelings, so to speak. With AMD officially introducing the Fusion platform at the start of the month, a ... |
24 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Already there have been official releases of various mobile computers based on AMD's latest Fusion processors, and it seems that MSI has just made one official, the product being dubbed CR650.Like all other makers of desktops and/or laptops, Micro-Star International has been dutifully giving Intel's and AM... |
24 January 2011
04:08 GMT |
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AMD's Fusion architecture has already shown its prowess, what with having already sold one million APUs, but it seems that a recent report regarding the company's plans for the Bulldozer may not have been not interpreted correctly.As end-users know, Advanced Micro Devices finally got serious on the Fusion ... |
24 January 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Even though the official release of its Fusion platform only happened a relatively short while ago, Advanced Micro Devices seems to have already shipped quite a solid number of accelerated processing units.A large amount of sales in a short time after official launch automatically places a certain product in the suc... |
22 January 2011
06:46 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has long been getting ready for its transition to a more advanced manufacturing process, and it seems that whatever plans it had in terms of roadmaps have been changed.
As consumers know, Advanced Micro Devices released its first Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units) weeks ago, even be... |
22 January 2011
06:22 GMT |
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Sometime in the upcoming months, AMD plans to introduce its second generation of Fusion chips, code named Llano, recent reports suggesting that the APUs are on track for being released in the second quarter of the year, if everything goes as planned.
Although no official announcement regarding the release schedule... |
20 January 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Following on the success of the Brazos platform, AMD launched yesterday a special embedded version of its AMD Fusion chips, and manufacturers were quick to announce their solutions build on top of this new platform, CompuLab being the first to do so with the fit-PC3.
Touted by the company as the world's small... |
20 January 2011
03:22 GMT |
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It seems that Acer is no longer dealing in just 10-inch netbooks, having also prepared a certain laptop which, although featuring what one may call entry-level performance capabilities, has a larger than usual screen. AMD's Fusion platform definitely seems to have gained a widespread adoption among makers of mo... |
18 January 2011
03:06 GMT |
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In tune with its status as promoter of the netbook, Acer has delivered a new entry-level mobile computer, developed in collaboration with sister brand eMachines and based on a dual-core processor.
Even though tablets have begun to noticeably affect the popularity of netbooks, low-end laptops are still very much a... |
18 January 2011
02:41 GMT |
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It really seems that the “app store” application delivery system is becoming more and more widespread, with just about every big name in the CE and IT segments coming up with some sort of system of this type, AMD being one of the latest to join the pack.
As some of you already know too well, AMD has la... |
18 January 2011
02:41 GMT |
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With AMD releasing its Fusion processors even before CES, it came as no surprise when companies, like Acer, demonstrated laptops powered by the APUs, like the Aspire One 522 netbook.
The main asset of the Fusion processors from Advanced Micro Devices is that, while having full CPU capabilities, they also feature p... |
12 January 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Since AMD finally released a noteworthy platform for netbooks and ultraportables, it makes sense that system builders would start to make systems based on it, as proven by Fujitsu, whose latest Brazos laptop has just been detailed.
Intel may have placed a sort of limit on how large netbooks based on the Pine Trai... |
12 January 2011
09:47 GMT |
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ASUS definitely did not have just a few things on display at CES, 2011, and it seems that a certain one of its laptops, even though it has yet to be officially launched, was spotted alive and well.As one would have expected, ASUS's booth at CES held its fair share of new mobile computers, not just desktops.One ... |
10 January 2011
10:30 GMT |
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