AMD has just started shipping Opteron and Phenom processors in the long-awaited B3 silicon revision. After more than five months of continuous delays, the chip manufacturer has started shipping the first B3 processors to system integrators and its OEM partners.The B3 silicon revision of the Opteron family can be easi... |
13 March 2008
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Chip manufacturer AMD is ready to launch and ship its Barcelona-based Opteron server processors. Although they have been slated for official launch quite a while ago, the processor silicon was affected by a crippling bug that would occur when the system is working at full load. Advanced Micro Devices is currently sel... |
29 February 2008
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices will release its upcoming tri-core offerings anytime now. Company officials claimed last month that AMD will treat the upcoming Phenom 8000 processors and low-power chip based on the Phenom processor as top priorities for the first quarter of 2008.Chinese press agency publish... |
27 February 2008
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices seems to bury the Phenom FX processor series, in order to focus on the more affordable Black Edition series. The differences between the FX and the Black Edition versions are lying beyond the classy black box the Black Edition ships in. These differences reflect in performance... |
28 January 2008
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you have surely heard of the plaguing Translation Lookaside Buffer erratum that hit AMD's Phenom and Barcelona quad-core processors last year. This tiny detail brought AMD close to the bottom pit and made investors run away in fear. I have mentioned in a previous article... |
25 January 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices keeps on failing the users' trust test, just like it did last year. We have reported during the last year about the Phenoms and Barcelonas being affected by the Translation Lookaside Buffer erratum, an issue that leads to system freeze when the CPU reaches full load, espe... |
11 January 2008
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News of AMD having delayed its processors yet again are not much of a surprise anymore. Back in 2007 it was a common company policy for AMD to delay its processor lines multiple times. Finally, when they got on the market, it was noticed that they were severely crippled by the Translation Lookaside Buffer erratum.Tho... |
11 January 2008
03:20 GMT |
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AMD have just announced that they have released their special edition of the Phenom 9600+ quad-core processor, known as the "Black Edition". This version has the same features as the original Phenom 9600+, but provides full access to the clock multiplier.The special edition has the same price as the standard one but ... |
19 December 2007
11:50 GMT |
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If you ever thought that things can not go worse, AMD is the exception that can confirm the rule. The more time passes, the more processors AMD discovers to suffer from the infamous TLB errata. The four-core Opteron chips are apparently available on the market, but they seem to benefit from customer-proof protection,... |
6 December 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Little took AMD's Spider platform launch to transform into a gigantic failure, and leave them with chipsets, GPUs and no CPUs. Spider is a good choice of words, because AMD dropped the 9700 just as the spider drops its limbs to go away. The 9500s and 9700s finally made it to the market, luckily, because they wer... |
30 November 2007
05:47 GMT |
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