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Eurocom's Panther notebook has such powerful hardware that the company went as far as to say that it was the most powerful laptop in the world. I'll leave it to it and its various challengers to decide if that's really true, through whatever means they choose. Provided they bother staging a competitio... |
17 May 2013
09:02 GMT |
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AMD has already told the world, twice (some might even say three times) to Never Settle for just any graphics card offering, and now it is doing it again.
The Sunnyvale, California-based corporation has updated the Never Settle program with the “Level Up” plan.
Through it, all video boards from Radeon... |
16 May 2013
02:13 GMT |
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Yesterday, when we wrote about the MSI GX70 gaming notebook, we mentioned that for all the might of the Richland AMD A10-5750M, the APU didn't have the best possible integrated GPU, despite it being much better than anything Intel offered. So a discrete graphics card has been added as well. Said discrete graph... |
15 May 2013
02:27 GMT |
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People may be misled by reviews and reports into thinking that just because AMD stopped competing directly with Intel on the high-end CPU market, it doesn't have high-end CPUs or APUs at all. Naturally, this is not the case. AMD's A-Series, especially the upcoming Richland collection of accelerated proces... |
14 May 2013
04:01 GMT |
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No longer content with just the consumer processor and graphics card markets, Advanced Micro Devices has been working hard on a technology that will secure it a section of the server industry.
The company has introduced the Open 3.0 premium server architecture, which simplified motherboard design for servers with a... |
13 May 2013
10:28 GMT |
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Tablets have been blamed for the decline in notebook demand, but some companies are singing a different tune. Or the same tune but with different notes.
Basically, slates that don't need keyboards have been eating the market share of normal laptops, ultrabooks included.
Yet there has been an increasing numbe... |
13 May 2013
04:59 GMT |
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AMD's Kabini accelerated processing units, set to be used in notebooks, have been the talk of the industry for a while now, along with the Richland APU series and Intel's Haswell upcoming collection. However, the information available on the Kabini line has been, for the longest time, quite incomplete, du... |
13 May 2013
04:36 GMT |
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While preparing for the release of Richland 6000-series APUs, Advanced Micro Devices has been putting together some lower-end chips as well.
In this case, the A4-4000 dual-core running at 3 GHz has been formally launched.
The world has known about the May release since March, and it seems this chip, at least, is co... |
13 May 2013
04:01 GMT |
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AMD said it would enter the dynamic random access memory market a while ago, but other than an initial offering, a test mostly, it didn't pipe up again.
This has now changed: AMD has introduced the AMD Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series Memory and Radeon RAMDisk 4.1. AMD Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series Memory.
The compan... |
8 May 2013
10:16 GMT |
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Often something unexpected happens, even on the IT market, and Advanced Micro Devices has definitely taken the world by surprise when it leaked the specifications of the flagship Volcanic Islands GPU. The Sea Islands range of graphics processing units will power the Radeon HD 8000 series graphics cards, and has alr... |
8 May 2013
08:35 GMT |
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I've heard and read a lot about the Richland series of accelerated processing units, even reported on the latest pictures of the high-end models. What some may not yet know is that there will be a bunch of low-end chips too, some of which will have disabled graphics. That's why they'll qualify as C... |
3 May 2013
05:17 GMT |
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I am tempted to call this a controlled leak. It just seems too convenient that on the same day when Intel's i7-4770K Haswell CPU gets overclocked to 7 GHz, AMD's Richland APUs also make the news.
Still, whatever the reason may be, I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Long story short, t... |
3 May 2013
04:07 GMT |
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After releasing the Catalyst 13.5 beta 2 version for desktop cards, AMD turned its attention to the notebook series and has outed a new beta version of the Mobility Catalyst graphics driver, namely the 13.5 beta 3 version.
The newly released package expands the compatibility list by adding support for the AMD Radeon... |
3 May 2013
02:17 GMT |
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We doubt Intel will ever buy Advanced Micro Devices, not just because of the long-standing rivalry between the two, but also because that would give Intel a monopoly on the CPU industry, and there are regulations against that.
Nevertheless, a person speaking to the Tech Trader Daily blog (identity unknown) says tha... |
2 May 2013
04:17 GMT |
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A while ago, AMD announced that, as part of its Never Settle free game bundle program, the Radeon HD 7790 graphics card would ship with Far Cry 3 and a 20% discount coupon for Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
Now, Sapphire has announced another deal involving that particular board, one that includes SimCity.
I'm no... |
2 May 2013
03:19 GMT |
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The relationship between suppliers and customers on the IT industry is a rather ambivalent one. Customers tell suppliers and tech designers what they want, but they don't always get it, as suppliers have limitations of their own.
Closer collaboration can help make products that perform better and more in line ... |
2 May 2013
03:04 GMT |
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In the wake of its latest product release (FX-4350 and FX-6350 CPUs), however quiet and stealthy, Advanced Micro Devices has cut the prices of quite a few A-Series and FX processors.
The complete list is made up of the AMD A6-3600, A8-3800 and A8-3820 socket FM1 APUs, the AMD A6-5400K, A8-5500, and A8-5600K socket F... |
1 May 2013
04:27 GMT |
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I have reported on the FX-4350 and FX-6350 CPUs, so now I may as well cover the latest APU that got leaked too.
The chip in question has been exposed by the Aspire V5-122P-0643 notebook, whose product page is found here.
The processor is called Temash A6-1450 and has four cores (x86) as well as Radeon HD HD 8280 ... |
30 April 2013
10:47 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may be talking mostly about graphics cards and accelerated processing units lately, but it still has a bunch of CPUs for sale. In fact, the company has just launched a pair of new Vishera units, called FX-4350 and FX-6350. The former is a quad-core model with a base clock speed of 4.2 GHz and... |
30 April 2013
10:37 GMT |
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Even with all the progress made in terms of processor integration, software continues to be divided into programs best run on x86 chips and programs that run better on highly parallel GPUs.
AMD does not exactly like how computers work nowadays, from this perspective. That is why, last week, it held a press conferen... |
30 April 2013
09:52 GMT |
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AMD has released a recent beta version for the Radeon HD AGP, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series graphics cards. This update fixes a driver crash in Company of Heroes 2. Users report that, although the mentioned issue has been fixed, there are still plenty of bugs to be repaired. For example, an AMD Radeon HD 4870 user re... |
30 April 2013
03:32 GMT |
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Now that both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices have finished with their mind-blowingly overpowered graphics adapters, they can pay attention to the millions of people that can't, in fact, afford the GeForce GTX Titan and Radeon HD 7990.
To get right to the point, Advanced Micro Devices has put together the Ra... |
29 April 2013
04:45 GMT |
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AMD continues to hold back information on its Richland accelerated processing units, but that hasn't stopped all leaks from providing details.
On this particular occasion, Lenovo is the source, or rather its H535 and H535s computers.
The A8-5500 and A10-5700 quad-core processors are listed, along with the A4-6... |
27 April 2013
05:38 GMT |
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After the release of the Catalyst 13.4 WHQL and 13.5 Beta 2, AMD has outed the Embedded GPU and APU driver version 12.104, compatible with both the 32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s Windows Vista, 7, and 8 operating systems. In addition, the package supports the E6760 and E6460, R, and G Series, and the R... |
26 April 2013
02:48 GMT |
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AMD has released a major driver update for its current product line, integrating a lot of fixes for Team Fortress 2 and other major titles.
The new AMD driver has arrived with a surprising number of features and a lot of them are geared towards gaming.
Probably more interesting than the fixes and improvements in t... |
25 April 2013
18:21 GMT |
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AMD has just released the Catalyst 13.4 WHQL and 13.5 Beta 2 graphics driver versions, which bring a handful of fixes and significantly improved performance for a large number of games.
The 13.5 Beta 2 version is compatible with both bit versions of Microsoft’s Windows Vista, 7, and 8 operating systems, and i... |
25 April 2013
03:15 GMT |
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Today will end with quite a few versions of the AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics card out on sale.
Then again, that isn't quite true. While AMD and a bunch of its partners have all released Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics adapters, none of them had anything unique to contribute.
This, of course, is AMD's ow... |
24 April 2013
11:01 GMT |
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I'm sure I'll have practically flooded this section with tidbits about new Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards by tonight. Still, as tedious as it is to report on the arrival of each new video card box, I may as well get it over it, especially since it's not all that often that a high-profile product like t... |
24 April 2013
09:10 GMT |
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Drivers are something that Advanced Micro Devices could have been spending more resources on, but for a while, it felt like it didn't need to. Now, though, it is faced with a rather delicate situation: NVIDIA advantage in getting the frames to the displays. AMD has just released the Radeon HD 7990 Malta dual-... |
24 April 2013
07:16 GMT |
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The rumors of Advanced Micro Devices having chosen April 24, 2013 as the launch day for the Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” graphics card have proven true: the dual-Tahiti adapter is now out.
Setting aside the technical specifications for the moment, there are things that may stir admiration and satisfaction, bu... |
24 April 2013
02:12 GMT |
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At first glance, one might say the G-Series chips that AMD has just released are fairly straightforward: x86 SoCs with integrated Radeon HD 8000 graphics. Engadget made a very interesting observation though, one with potentially massive implications. There is a small "X" at the bottom right corner of the logo. The... |
23 April 2013
04:22 GMT |
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For all intents and purposes, the first steps of the Jaguar micro-architecture from Advanced Micro Devices came in the form of the hardware used in the Sony PlayStation 4 game console.
The Jaguar is being used in other things as well though, in this case embedded system-on-chip devices bearing the brand G-Series.
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23 April 2013
02:30 GMT |
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Biostar is one of the many motherboard makers with Advanced Micro Devices as a client and partner, which means it usually gets information on upcoming chips earlier than everyone save its fellows.
Sometimes that information slips through the cracks of the world wide web, like now.
A CPU support list has shown the R... |
22 April 2013
10:42 GMT |
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This past weekend, we found out what the exact specifications of the newest and greatest upcoming AMD graphics card were. Now we get to follow up on that with some benchmark test results.
The following are the results of the card being tested and compared against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU board.
As s... |
22 April 2013
03:14 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices hasn't been the bearer of good news lately, not counting the hype raised around the Malta Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, so we can safely say that its latest staff choice is a good thing.
What the Sunnyvale, California company did was rehire a certain renowned graphics expert that it lost... |
20 April 2013
04:24 GMT |
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There might once have been uncertainty as to whether or not Advanced Micro Devices would ever actually release a dual-GPU Radeon HD 7000 graphics card, but there is no doubt left now. The estimated arrival date, for one, is no longer estimated. It is a sure thing: April 24, 2013, which means Tuesday, four days afte... |
20 April 2013
03:49 GMT |
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During a recent conference call with financial analysts, Advanced Micro Devices revealed some things about its operations, beyond the financial losses suffered during the first quarter of the year. As it happens, the Kabini accelerated processing unit has finally started to bring money to the coffers of the CPU, AP... |
19 April 2013
04:31 GMT |
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We really have to wonder what it means when the best compliment one can bring to the financial results of a company, in this case AMD, is that it suffered the smallest loss ever seen in a year.
Sadly, the heavy reorganization that Advanced Micro Devices went through over the past couple of years did not allow for m... |
19 April 2013
02:25 GMT |
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AMD has just released the 12.101.2.1-130416a version of the Catalyst performance graphics driver, which is targeted only at its Radeon HD 7790 graphics card. The package is compatible with Microsoft’s Windows Vista, 7, and 8 operating systems, both 32- and 64-bit versions.
The new driver, if updated, will fix ... |
18 April 2013
04:08 GMT |
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Back in March, during the WorldHostingDays event, Advanced Micro Devices put together a presentation (PDF file) in which it revealed a few things about a new series of microprocessors called Kyoto. Found here, the file, titled “A Vision for Tomorrow’s Hosting Data Center,” says that Advanced Micro... |
18 April 2013
02:28 GMT |
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We suppose the auction on eBay should have been enough of a hint that Advanced Micro Devices would soon be releasing the dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 graphics adapter. Cards with two Tahiti GPUs have been around since last year, but they are few and made by AMD's partners. Malta will be the reference dual-chip me... |
17 April 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices hasn't released its newest dual-GPU graphics card, but it sent out some engineering samples a while ago, to its partners. These samples were never meant to come within reach of the general public, but alas, one has done so. There is an auction on eBay, right now, for a Radeon HD 7990 ada... |
17 April 2013
02:01 GMT |
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Recognition is always awesome to have, which is why Advanced Micro Devices wasted no time in shouting from the rooftops, so to speak, that Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine named it a top Corporate Citizen.
CR Magazine compiles a list of companies periodically, ranked according to accountability and responsibil... |
16 April 2013
09:40 GMT |
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Sapphire may already have a pair of Radeon HD 7790 graphics cards out, but that didn't stop it from launching another one.
Called Sapphire HD 7790 2 GB OC, it uses 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM memory.
The OC stands for “overclocked” of course, and we don't just mean the GPU.
While other video cards ... |
16 April 2013
08:30 GMT |
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ASRock has just launched new BIOSes for its AMD-based motherboards. The package includes CPU updates for all mentioned motherboards. To begin with, the updates for FM2A75M-DGS, FM2A55M-VG3, FM2A55M-DGS, FM2A75M-DGS R2.0 and FM2A55M-DGS R2.0 update the EZ-OC table, the X-Boost table for Richland CPU and add a BIOS se... |
15 April 2013
09:16 GMT |
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With Kabini and Kaveri accelerated processing units already shipping to developers, one would think that information leaks would happen more, but this doesn't seem to be the case, although we do have some data on a few of the chips.
In fact, information on AMD's upcoming processor product line seems to be... |
15 April 2013
05:47 GMT |
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There are rumors and then there are rumors, and what we have here, thanks to the nice folk at Hexus.net, is definitely one of the latter, likely to leave a lot of people reeling.
To avoid a lengthy egress, it has been reported that Advanced Micro Devices is working on a central processing unit with a clock speed of... |
12 April 2013
09:46 GMT |
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While Advanced Micro Devices is busy updating the Never Settle game bundle, its partners continue to release graphics cards based on its reference designs.
PowerColor is the one making a move, having prepared the AX7790 1GBD5-DHV2/OC, or the Radeon HD 7790 OC V2.
Obviously, the OC in the name means the card is fa... |
12 April 2013
03:32 GMT |
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It occurred to Advanced Micro Devices that there was no game available on all the graphics cards included in its Never Settle free game program from the Radeon HD 7700 up. Naturally, the company pounced on the opportunity to make its products even more appealing. Through a deal with Ubisoft, the retro-styled first-... |
12 April 2013
02:49 GMT |
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NVIDIA may be trying to downplay the PlayStation 4 and AMD winning the contracts for both the CPU and GPU cores in the PlayStation 4, but the rest of the world is quite excited from what we've seen.
AMD itself is quite pleased with the product, and believes it will finally allow game developers to create title... |
11 April 2013
09:57 GMT |
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