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AMD Starts Shipping Its Tri-Core Toliman Processors

AMD has just started shipping its latest processor offering, comprised of triple-core Phenom processors, also known as Tolimans. At the moment, the chip manufacturer is only shipping the chips to OEM vendors and system integrators, but they are not available through AMD's retail channels yet.The chips are 65-nan...

13 March 2008
07:35 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Exclusive Interview with AMD

AMD's 780G platform has been one of the most important announcements made at this year's CeBIT exhibition. So, in order to find out more about this particular product, as well as AMD's plans for the future, we've carried out a very exciting interview with Ian McNaughton, senior product manager at ...

11 March 2008
09:42 GMT

AMD's Tri-Core Chips Are About To Kick In - OEM Edition Only?

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
06:24 GMT

AMD, Back Into Dell's Arms With Tri-Core Phenom-Based Systems

The separation between Dell and AMD seems to be yet another storm in a glass of water, as the PC vendor is far to turn its back on the world's number two chip manufacturer. Recent reports show that Dell plans on adding a whole new series of AMD-powered computing systems, based on the chip manufacturer's Tri...

18 February 2008
03:57 GMT

Analysts: AMD's Upcoming Puma Platform May Already Be Buggy

Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is still struggling to push its previously buggy quad-core processors on the market, but bad luck seems to follow the company. Tech analysts claim that the upcoming Puma platform for mobile computers is affected by some serious technical issues.AMD announced the Griffin proces...

14 February 2008
02:48 GMT

AMD Updates its Supported Motherboards, Gets Ready for Phenoms

Advanced Micro Devices has just issued an update to the list of motherboards that support AMD Phenom processors. The list is comprised of all the AM2+ motherboards that can work with the latest Phenom processors.The Phenom-Ready certification shows the users that the recommended motherboard is fully functional when u...

12 February 2008
10:51 GMT

AMD is Playing Hide And Seek With Its Phenom Processors

Advanced Micro Devices' latest Phenom processors are hidden by a complete veil of mystery in a game that it's not funny anymore. Rumors about extended delays knock heads with other pieces of news claiming that the processors are ready to roll on the market even earlier than scheduled. Although this is quite...

9 February 2008
07:10 GMT

AMD Rumored to Delay High-Performance Phenom CPUs to Q3

AMD has been rumored to have rescheduled the release dates of its quad-core AMD Phenom CPUs with increased computing power. According to some Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, the company will delay the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 parts to the end of the third quarter of 2008. The delay is caused by a buffer-re...

9 February 2008
04:54 GMT

AMD Will Show its Tri-Cores at CeBit, Phenoms Are Still Missing

AMD is supposed to finally unveil its triple-core Phenom 8400 and 8600 processor during this year's CeBIT expo and show that will take place in Hanover during 4-9 March. The chip manufacturer will also unveil its low-power quad-core Phenom 9100e, but the other quads in the family, the Phenom 9700 and 9900 will,...

4 February 2008
05:42 GMT

CPU Names and Conventions: Intel, AMD Crash-Course

Names and conventions are the only thing that keeps us from going mad with the avalanche of new products that are dropped on the market on a daily basis. Processors are not an exception to the rule, but it seems that the numbering system got a little mixed up, so I'd rather make things clear before you start sma...

30 January 2008
04:18 GMT

MSI to Cut Support for 125W Processors On the K9A2 CF Motherboard

MSI has decided to terminate support for its K9A2 CF motherboards running CPUs with a thermal envelope higher than 125 Watts. This means that the K9A2 CF users won't be able to get support if they are using AMD Athlon 64 6000+, 6400+ and older FX-62 processors.The company's decision is extremely odd, since...

28 January 2008
11:35 GMT

AMD Will Build their "Fusion" CPU on Top of the Phenoms

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

The B3 Phenoms Willl Show Up at the CeBIT 2008

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

Barcelona B3 Stepping, Fixed and Ready to Roll Out

Good news have finally start to emerge from the Advanced Micro Devices labs. It seems that the CPU manufacturer has managed to fix the infamous TLB erratum bug affecting its quad-core processors, and they will be ready for mass availability soon.AMD chief executive officer Hector Ruiz announced that Opteron and Pheno...

18 January 2008
04:24 GMT

Ouch! Intel Faces the Errata Wall in Its 45-Nanometer Quad-Cores

Intel's 2008 roadmap suffered quite a bump with the 45-nanometer quad-core Penryns. Although things seem to run just smoothly for the number one x86 CPU manufacturer, there has been a slight delay in launching the Penryn powerhorses. Initially scheduled for January this year, the official launch date has been di...

16 January 2008
11:12 GMT

Don't Worry, Barcelona's B3 Phenoms are Safe and Sound

We have told you earlier this morning that there might be a problem with the third stepping of the AMD Phenom processor. French hardware site Erenumerique reported that AMD officials told them that the company received the first B3 revision of the Phenom silicon. To cut the story short for those living under their ro...

11 January 2008
09:55 GMT

CES 2008: AMD's B3 Stepping Failed to Fix The TLB Errata

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
04:21 GMT

Bad Habits Die Hard: AMD to Delay Phenom 9700 and Phenom 9900 to Q2

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

CES 2008: Asus to Display nForce 780a-Enabled Motherboard

The nForce 680i SLI has been the top chipset product for more than a year, ant it is high time Nvidia retired it, but the newer and more powerful nForce 700 series of chipsets for the AMD platform are expected to arrive later this quarter. Gigabyte was quite impressive with its GeForce 8200 motherboard the company pr...

10 January 2008
09:09 GMT

AMD to Release Two New Dual-Core CPUs For Q2

As far as AMD is concerned, the new year is supposed to bring more than a new stepping of errata-free Barcelona and Phenom chips. The company has confirmed that it has outlined the general plans of shifting the K8 production to the 65-nanometer line, while phasing out the 90nm 6400+ (3.2GHz) and 6000+ (3GHz) product...

5 January 2008
06:36 GMT

Phenom-Ready Certified Motherboards Fail the Compatibility Test

The Phenom-Ready certification offered to motherboard manufacturers by AMD is meant to spare the users the headache of picking an incompatible model for their newly-purchased Phenom processor. This was a minor aspect until now, as Phenoms could not make it to the market, so it would have been impossible for the custo...

27 December 2007
10:53 GMT

Quad-Core Phenoms Delayed Yet Again

American chip manufacturer AMD is drawing the bottom line over what should be regarded as a bad year for business. This year was marked with a series of disappointments in delivering the world's "first native quad-core processor". The Phenoms are affected by a design mistake that renders the computer useless, sh...

27 December 2007
04:27 GMT

AMD Discounts the Phenoms: Buy One, Get One

Advanced Micro Devices has been the target of all bad things that could happen to a chip manufacturer. There was the Phenom delay, then the Phenom malfunctioning, the Barcelona fiasco, the ATI goodwill impairment scandal and the shameful, soap-opera-like Analyst Day. The company is bruised and limping, yet, everybody...

17 December 2007
06:43 GMT

AMD Missed the 45-nm Train But Aims Directly at 32-nm Technology

Intel has already been taking advantage of the brand-new 45-nanometer family of Penryns for some time, yet AMD missed the train, since all their competitive products are handicapped and had to be pulled off the shelves. There's always a second chance and the only thing the company should focus on is the next-gen...

15 December 2007
03:56 GMT

SPEC Sends Barcelona Benchmarks to Recycle Bin

AMD has officially announced that Barcelonas are not to be publicly available until 2008. The market is already short of Barcelonas, since the company sells the chips in volume only to their selected customers, after an extremely attentive screening process. As for attentive screening, they should have done this with...

14 December 2007
08:48 GMT

Dirk Meyer and AMD's Achievements List

The achievements AMD has been enjoying in the last year have been shaded by the launch and delivery pit stop because of their quad-core lines. These issues prevent AMD from keeping their promise to their customers and force the company to delay the shipment of several products until the first quarter of 2008. The mos...

13 December 2007
10:38 GMT

AMD Will Start Shipping Their Non-Existing Processor Line

Advanced Micro Devices have announced that they will ship their new Shanghai processor line starting the second half of the next year. Things are, however, more complicated for the chip manufacturer, since they have to unveil a processor that momentarily does not exist. The company has not managed to produce even a s...

12 December 2007
02:38 GMT

AMD in Freefall: They're Worth Less Than ATI Price

The last week has turned into a financial nightmare for chip manufacturer AMD. The company has reached the lowest share price and witnessed a true freefall in the market value: the whole company is now worth $5 billion, a shameful value for a company who could afford paying $5.4 billion for the ATI business takeover ...

10 December 2007
05:46 GMT

Barcelonas and Phenoms, Affected by a More Serious Issue

When things were settling just fine for the two unfortunate chip models from AMD, Phenom and Barcelona, rumors erupt to hit the company yet again. The BIOS patch AMD issued prior to November 19th is alleged to fix the L3 problem at a great performance cost, and there is even an operating system workaround to work at ...

10 December 2007
02:41 GMT

AMD: Human Translation for Company Tough Luck

The so-called microcode injection patch that was supposed to miraculously heal the Phenoms' faulty behaviour at speeds exceeding 2.4 GHz is a fiasco. It is true that it fixes the issue and the users will never experience system freeze on high overload again, but they won't experience high speeds either. All...

6 December 2007
06:18 GMT

AMD to Recycle Older Architectures

The fact that AMD is sitting on a timebomb is not a secret anymore. The company strongly lacks cash and their most recent products failed to impose themselves as quality standards. In fact, the Phenom line has done far worse, a third of the processors ending amputated at birth. I will spare you the teary introduction...

5 December 2007
11:49 GMT

Infamous TLB Errata, Genetically Inherited in the Phenom Family

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

AMD to Squeeze Revenue out of CPUs

The world's second chip manufacturer is still kept on a short leash in terms of pricing for their latest Phenom processors. The company will not be able to push their processor towards a $1000 retail price for another few months, but they hope that AMD Phenom models 9700 and 9900 would bring higher price-points ...

30 November 2007
04:30 GMT

AMD's Tri-Core CPUs, Due to Arrive Until February

AMD's launch of the Spider platform was a really close shave. We got used to AMD's delaying and setting timelines just for the joy of shamefully disrespecting them, but AMD has now entered the orbit of good luck. If we close our eyes regarding the errata issue, the Phenom CPUs will not lack in performance; ...

29 November 2007
11:00 GMT

The 'Black Edition' Phenom Is Ready, the FXes Go Back to Closet

Advanced Micro Devices recently promised that the Phenom 9600 "Black Edition" will be ready until December, but the high-end AMD Phenom FX processors will be subject of delay for an undetermined period of time. We have already got used to AMD delaying each major product, so there should be no problem; at least the 96...

29 November 2007
10:23 GMT

Nvidia 680i Chipset Rejects the 45nm Processor Transplant

Rumor has it that the new Nvidia 680i chipset does not support all the Intel's 45nm processor line. Well, things have gone official now, since the deal was given away by an EVGA forum staff member. Nvidia's new Nforce 680i chipset seems to have some compatibility issues with the next generation of Penryn pr...

23 November 2007
11:17 GMT

Abit Officially Supports Phenom: The First Phenom Ready Motherboard

Each new release in technology quickly becomes a battlefield for profit. That was the case with the mobile ringtones shortly after the cellular era and this is the case with the Phenom-Ready hysteria following the release of the newer Spider platform.Abit announced the release of the world's first motherboard th...

22 November 2007
02:55 GMT

AMD to Sacrifice CEO Hector Ruiz

There is no doubt that AMD has had a tough year, which reflected in over $1.5 billion US loss and multiple delays in releasing the company's first quad-core processor. The Intel competitors always seemed one step ahead of them, while they were busy taking up the ATI business. The recent unveiling of the Phenom p...

19 November 2007
09:47 GMT

AMD's Phenoms Details Revealed

After the more or less successful launch and acceptance of its native quad core equipped line of central processing units which are aimed at the server market segment, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to make a big comeback on the desktop market with its Phenom class of processors that are aimed at competing with the lat...

10 October 2007
10:25 GMT

AMD Joins the Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is one of the most important groups that are aimed at providing developers with a comprehensive set of tools and software development kits and frameworks in order to simplify the creation and deployment of open source applications based on popular and widely spread programming languages like Ja...

10 October 2007
08:33 GMT

Yet Another Round of Price Cuts from AMD

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to make most of the incoming holiday shopping spree as the manufacturing company is hoping to gain some market share from its rival Intel, by lowering prices for its single and dual core product ranges that were already priced at a pretty low level when compared with similar offeri...

10 October 2007
04:24 GMT

AMD Launches New Desktop Processors

Advanced Micro Devices prepares for the launch of its much awaited line of quad core central processing units, the Phenom class of products, but until then the hardware manufacturing company tries to capitalize as much as possible on the low cost and entry level performance market segments with a new range of offerin...

9 October 2007
05:00 GMT

AMD Triple-Core CPU Details Revealed

It looks like Advanced Micro Devices is getting serious about their three core central processing unit design as some information is surfacing on the World Wide Web and they are starting to make waves even if the processors themselves will not arrive until the first quarter of the next year.The processor manufacturin...

8 October 2007
06:31 GMT

A New AMD Mainstream Graphics Chip Is Ready

While DirectX 10.0 compliant hardware from Advanced Micro Devices' graphics division came a little too late to the party and missed most chances to dominate the market, the DirectX 10.1 supporting graphics processing units from the very same manufacturing company are coming in fast and they promise better perfor...

1 October 2007
10:25 GMT

AMD Launches The Athlon64 X2 5000+

Advanced Micro Devices just can't wait to launch their new generation of dual and quad core central processing units, the Phenom class of processors, and for the gamers that are feeling a little bit depressed surrounded by so many new Intel processors, the manufacturing company just launched the Athlon64 X2 5000...

25 September 2007
09:35 GMT

790FX: The New AMD Chipset

Advanced Micro Devices is a company that has its collective hands full at the moment. For one thing it has to promote as best as it can the server line of the quad core processors that they just released and on the other hand (I'm running low on hands, here) they must prepare a new generation of mainboard chipse...

20 September 2007
03:27 GMT

AMD Provides More Information About The Upcoming CPUs

After Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its quad core Opteron processing units designed for servers which are based on the Barcelona cores, the processor manufacturing company also revealed the logo of the new and upcoming desktop intended quad core processor, the Phenom.The desktop version of the much await...

15 September 2007
06:32 GMT

AMD's K10 Family to Support DDR3 Memory

While Advanced Micro Devices promised a central processing unit architecture that will revolutionize computing experience for both the server and the consumer segments thanks to a larger number of cores and some innovative technologies, it looks as if the manufacturing company did not mention to its clients one impor...

13 September 2007
10:13 GMT

AMD to Launch 2.5GHz Quad Core Opterons in December

When Advanced Micro Devices officially launched their quad core central processing units two days ago, most of the server manufacturers felt just a little bit cheated as the company presented only processors with a low clock speed, which tops at 2.0GHz. AMD stated that higher clocked quad core processors based on the...

12 September 2007
08:40 GMT

Asustek and Gigabyte to Go for AMD RD790

Advanced Micro Devices will launch its much awaited RD790 chipset designed for the new generation of central processing units in the last days of September, and two important players on the mainboard market, Asustek and Gigabyte, are very likely to release compliant motherboards immediately after that. The AMD RD790 ...

30 August 2007
10:06 GMT


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