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Software development has proved to be just as important as hardware development. Usually, hardware makers need to take the lead and practically teach programmers how to better use the hardware available.
The first obvious move in such a direction was Intel’s introduction of the MMX extensions that offered prog... |
26 May 2012
07:48 GMT |
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You'd think that AMD's Radeon HD 7990 would be the end-all of all dual-chip graphics card efforts, but this does not seem to be the case if recent reports are to be believed.
The folks at DonanimHaber may have just stumbled upon the most queer of information pieces this year has seen so far.
Apparently,... |
25 May 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Taiwanese mainboard manufacturer MSI, also known for its powerful notebooks and video cards, has recently announced the R7770 Power Edition 1GD5/OC video card, on its official website. This is a unique model with special cooling and overclocking features. MSI’s new Radeon HD 7770 video card comes with a very s... |
24 May 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The Bulldozer AMD FX series of central processing units ended up disappointing most people, even though the chip did exactly what AMD said it would. That said, we'll be more cautious in our assumptions regarding the FX-series central processing units that will replace them. Speaking of which, we now know whe... |
24 May 2012
03:09 GMT |
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World’s biggest computer manufacturer, American company HP is reportedly selling the HP Pavilion G6 notebook powered by AMD Trinity in Taiwan for just 570 USD. In European currency that’s just 446 EUR, and the laptop is indeed delivered all around the world so, if any European Trinity fans want one,... |
23 May 2012
07:41 GMT |
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We talked a lot about AMD’s lack of software optimization right before Trinity’s official launch. AMD needs to work on software development, as relying on Intel’s compilers is a very bad idea. CyberLink software company has just updated its media processing software suite with complete support for A... |
23 May 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Even though AMD's Brazos 2.0 accelerated processing units have yet to be launched, machines based on them are making their presence felt. The product whose specifications surfaced this time around is called pavilion dm1-4210au and is a laptop made by HP. With hardware based around the E1-1200 Brazos 2.0 APU,... |
23 May 2012
03:28 GMT |
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MSI, the well-known mainboard manufacturer is also in the business of making mobile PCs, such as the fastest Ivy Bridge notebook called GT70, or today’s Win U270 that has just been listed on the company’s official website. The netbook is powered by AMD’s E2-1800 processor that we described in detai... |
22 May 2012
11:11 GMT |
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We've only just finished writing about how good the first quarter turned out to be for AMD's APU and graphics sales.
Now we can toss a passing glance over the whole graphics market, thanks to Jon Peddie Research.
Long story short, the number of GPUs shipped, whether they were part of CPUs/Chipsets or not... |
22 May 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices managed to get the long end of the stick in graphics sales during the first quarter of the year (2012). Sure, laptop chip shipments dipped about 2%, but desktop APUs (accelerated processing units) managed an 84% jump. Jon Peddie Research says so anyway. Coupled with boosts of 4% to desktop GP... |
22 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 launches in October and, like we mentioned before, AMD will be ready with Hondo CPUs. Considering that Hondo CPUs are still made in 40 nm manufacturing technology at TSMC, the company is reportedly preparing a 32 nm version to better counter Intel’s Clover Trail on power consumption.... |
22 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Back in mid-February we reported the departure of Eric Demers from his position at Advanced Micro Devices and now we get to write about the new post he will fill.
Eric Demers leaving AMD was not something we expected to see, but the corporate vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) surrendered his post by... |
22 May 2012
05:05 GMT |
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We have just finished detailing a motherboard based on a still unreleased Intel chipset and, now, we get to check out a photo of an AMD-powered platform too.
This time around, we can't really go into as much detail as we could when checking out the Q77M vPro Motherboard.
That's because ASRock's pla... |
22 May 2012
03:23 GMT |
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AMD’s top single GPU video card, the Radeon HD 7970 reportedly shows considerably better performance in single- and double-precision floating point computing using OpenCL. We got this impression the first time we saw AMD's GCN architecture GPU compute benchmarks, but we thought it was some AMD-specifi... |
21 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Every battery test done on Trinity compared AMD’s reference test systems with retail shipping Ivy Bridge notebooks from different manufacturers. To stick to the correct principles of benchmarking, when comparing two devices inside a system, the main system should be exactly the same. Only the performance dif... |
21 May 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Texas-based processor designer Advanced Micro Devices is launching today the Embedded R-Series Platform, on its official website. These are basically Trinity CPUs that are destined for embedded applications. In the performance computing world, energy efficiency is mostly a new concept. The embedded market, on the ot... |
21 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Last week, at the company's GTC 2012 conference, Nvidia discussed their current low yields and wafer availability problems. The manufacturer reportedly claims that the yields are high, but the wafer availability is low. This is in direct contradiction with TSMC’s promise to make Nvidia a priorit... |
21 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Right now, AMD is enjoying being the company making the most powerful mobile GPU. The Radeon HD 7970M is currently shipping in Eurocom’s Racer 2.0 gaming notebooks. This is the highest performing mobile GPU from AMD, and it will likely enjoy high sales until Nvidia’s own mobile flagship leaves the c... |
21 May 2012
02:23 GMT |
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We were delighted to report about AMD’s Trinity performance in the new and long-anticipated computer game, Blizzard’s Diablo III. We’ve mentioned the imbalance between AMD’s chip and Intel’s processor regarding the power consumption and especially the price, but it seems there’s mu... |
20 May 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Just like we anticipated, there is a strong chance that Intel’s UltraBook game might be won by AMD. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Advanced Micro Devices reportedly believes the same thing. Apparently, we were not far away with our deductions, and yesterday’s good news for AMD only seem to str... |
18 May 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Although the AMD Brazos 2.0 launch is still scheduled for next month, Japanese company Fujitsu is listing the new Esprimo EH30/HT desktop all-in-one system as available, on its official website. AMD’s APUs have been, and still are, a great success for the company and will probably help things change in th... |
17 May 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Well-known graphics card expert Sapphire is launching today the Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition video card, on its official website. This is a fast pre-overclocked video adapter that comes with an efficient cooling system. The card is built around AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit ... |
17 May 2012
06:14 GMT |
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As most experts said before, AMD seems to be winning the Fusion bet. We were able to write about some of AMD’s achievements last year, and we have another win to report today. Llano and Brazos already conquered 43% of the desktop market, although AMD doesn’t have a superior x86 CPU in any price range. T... |
16 May 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Popular custom notebook manufacturer AVADirect is now taking preorders on notebooks configured with AMD’s most powerful mobile GPU, the AMD Radeon HD 7970M. The Radeon HD 7970M mobile chip is built with the same architecture as the desktop Radeon HD 7870. Here, “Pitcairn” has a frequency of only 8... |
16 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is going to be making lots of system-on-chip devices from now on, but the complexity of technologies and interfaces means it can't afford to mess up too much. The design stage is just one step of creating a marketable device. Verification and manufacture come after, and then the product ... |
15 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Hong Kong-based Hightech Information System Limited is reportedly preparing the custom-designed, perfectly silent and fanless HiS AMD Radeon HD 7750 iSilence 5 video card. The card is built on AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit that comes with a very small 123 square millimeters die siz... |
15 May 2012
11:21 GMT |
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With the first Trinity APUs out of the way, we can look to the future and gather up whatever reports exist on the chips still unreleased. As it happens, we didn't have to look in too many places for data on the Brazos 2.0. CPU World got a lead on them. One of the chips, AMD E1-1200, is a 1.4 GHz entry-level ... |
15 May 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Korean well-know expert Zalman is reportedly showing some of the video cards using the company’s own design and custom cooling. The cards use the efficient VF3000, GV1000 and VF1000 VGA coolers. When it first started selling video cards late last year, Zalman was only working on AMD Radeon graphic cards. N... |
15 May 2012
09:44 GMT |
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We've covered the official launch of the five Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) from Advanced Micro Devices, but that doesn't really tell us everything we need to know. It ultimately falls to reviewers to figure out if a new product is all it's cracked up to be and if it is in any way bette... |
15 May 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Although during our meeting with Nvidia late last month the company’s presentation was touting “over 300 Ivy Bridge design wins,” we keep seeing many launches with AMD Radeon graphics instead. SONY’s adoption of the new Nvidia mobile line was regarded as a great achievement in the presentatio... |
15 May 2012
08:35 GMT |
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You'd expect us to immediately start listing all the laptops based on the new accelerated processing units (APUs) from Advanced Micro Devices, but that's not what we're going to do.
Sure, we've already seen some notebooks here and there, but the landslide is only now about to start, assuming PC ... |
15 May 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The time is finally here: Advanced Micro Devices has officially launched the second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units, codenamed Trinity. AMD had a bunch of laptop processors as part of the previous year's APU collection, but the number of design wins wasn't exactly high. Now, though, the... |
15 May 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Texas-based CPU designer Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, is currently preparing and gathering stocks for the Q4 launch of the company’s first tablet targeted processor called Hondo. The chip is reportedly made at TSMC in the same 40 nm manufacturing process as Brazos 2.0.AMD’s long awaited Trin... |
14 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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After HP’s marathon product launch of last week, we were left with some interesting data to analyze. As HP’s SleekBooks manifest mostly the same battery life and thickness, Intel’s UltraBook don’t seem so appealing anymore. As much as we like Intel’s new development direction, it seems ... |
12 May 2012
20:23 GMT |
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Famous Taiwanese semiconductor foundry TSMC has reportedly posted very high profits for last month. In April, TSMC’s revenue reached a very high 1.38 billion dollars. That represents a 9.2 percent growth when compared with April last year. The difference is likely coming from the fact that in 2011, 40 nm manuf... |
12 May 2012
18:42 GMT |
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Mini IT component manufacturer SHENZHEN JIEHE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. or just JEHE, better known as Giada, has just launched the Mini PC Giada A51 micro system, on its official website. The Mini PC Giada A51 is using AMD’s Brazos family member E450. This is a low power dual core CPU using two Bobcat c... |
11 May 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices will have both desktop and laptop accelerated processing units for consumers to buy, but that doesn't mean it won't have other chips too. In fact, the Sunnyvale, California-based company is also going to launch the R-Series, which is basically the mobile “Trinity” series... |
10 May 2012
04:23 GMT |
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AMD’s record breaking Radeon HD 7970 rightfully deserves a super cooler of its own. Prolimatech is happy to oblige and the new MK-26 Pro VGA cooler for the HD 7970 has just been spotted. The Pro version is an enhanced evolution of its twisted heatpipe older brother. The new cooler is 60 grams heavier than the ... |
9 May 2012
05:13 GMT |
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During a launch event in Shanghai, China, HP revealed a great number of products, including some Ultrabooks and their AMD-powered counterparts.
We've known for a while that Advanced Micro Devices would eventually get one of its chips inside super-thin and light laptops.
This is, after all, the purpose of tha... |
9 May 2012
04:49 GMT |
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You'd have thought that companies wouldn't be making them anymore, but people have been wrong about things before and they would be wrong in assuming this. PC makers have not, in fact, stopped making netbooks. Shipments aren't at the level of last year or two years ago, but entry-level laptops are st... |
8 May 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Today it was confirmed that the official AMD Trinity architecture launch is pending this month. The Texas-based CPU maker is reportedly only planning to launch its thin & light laptop mobile APUs, with the desktop versions of Trinity following in August. Wondering about why is AMD only launching the laptop versions ... |
8 May 2012
03:53 GMT |
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In addition to desktop and laptop accelerated processing units, Advanced Micro Devices has chips for servers and other industrial applications. One series of such processors has just gained a broader software support.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company dedicated a whole press release to the G-Series embedded A... |
7 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 managed to squeeze past the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in benchmark tests, but AMD might not allow this ranking to last much longer.
If what AtomicMPC says is true, then the Sunnyvale, California-based company will release a card that attains higher clocks on the same voltage.
The manufacturin... |
7 May 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Neither Acer nor Advanced Micro Devices has formally spoken about the Aspire E1-421, but that didn't stop retailers and watchful people from revealing its existence.
In fact, we have something better than a rumor to report on in this instance: the Brazos 2.0-based laptop has been caught on photo.
The AMD acc... |
7 May 2012
02:45 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may be far behind Intel on the sever and data center market, but it might decrease that huge gap by a little bit. Soon.
The company will reportedly participate in Facebook's Open Compute Project, OCP for short.
The goal of OCP is to produce a standard hardware platform for data centers... |
5 May 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Besides an enhanced IPC and generally, a more capable x86 core architecture, AMD is shooting for higher frequency on the desktop side and less power consumption in the mobile area. But all these don’t mean that AMD sees any advantage in a low yield 4.5 GHz part on 28 nm SOI rather than having a high yield 3.8 G... |
4 May 2012
17:08 GMT |
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Foxconn will soon launch a couple of barebone PCs called “Nano PCs” and priced at under $200 / 152 Euro.
They are called AT-5300 and AT-5600 and use Intel and AMD processors, respectively.
To be more precise, the former utilizes the Atom D2700, while the latter has an AMD E-450 “Brazos” APU ... |
4 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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TUL Corporation, an exclusive manufacturer of AMD graphic cards, has just released today the company’s custom design of the HD7800 series cards, on its official website. We’re talking about the PowerColor HD7870 and HD7850. PowerColor claims their HD7800 series is packed with selected power kit and effic... |
4 May 2012
09:38 GMT |
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The chief executive officer and the board of directors of Advanced Micro Devices have finally decided who would assume the position of chief marketing officer. The new senior vice president and CMO is Colette LaForce, 39, a former member of Dell. She will report directly to President and CEO Rory Read. Currently, ... |
4 May 2012
08:34 GMT |
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The so-called shortage of 28nm-based graphics adapters might start being less of an issue by the end of the month, according to a recent rumor.
People may not immediately realize it when browsing online stores or visiting their local computer shops, but NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices, and OEMs, don't really... |
3 May 2012
05:01 GMT |
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