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AMD - Price Slashes, New Models and Phaseouts
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
This week there have been some movements in AMDs product portfolio. Not only did the chipmaker make some moderate price cuts, it also introduced a few new models as well as phased out some of the older offerings.
On 5/2/2013 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
Sex, Lies & Benchmarks: Why Nobody Should be Surprised with AMD's Trinity Launch
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
There is quite a storm in a teacup brewing today. AMD's decision to launch the Virgo platform in a controlled environment was met with quite the resistance from the certain media, and gaining traction.
On 9/27/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD's Phaseout of 45nm Phenoms Imminent After Manufacturing Issues
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Albeit the AMD FX line wasn't very well received by reviewers, the customers obviously liked the part and the 45nm Phenom II CPUs are now being phased out, as sources from distributors indicated.
On 12/5/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
AMD "Llano" Fusion A8 APUs Go on Sale, Motherboards too
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
Even though the sales is expected to officially start on the last day of June (next Thursday), multiple e-tail and retail started to offer Fusion A8 APUs and motherboards for sale.
On 6/21/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Readies for Fusion and Bulldozer: Phenom Prices Slashed
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
With the introduction of the new top of the line quad-core Phenom II X4 980 CPU from AMD, the microprocessor supplier also slashed prices across the board for its Athlon and Phenom desktop CPUs.
On 5/9/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Waves Good Bye to Phenom II with X4 980 Black Edition
HARDWARE NEWS
With the release of the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition AMD released their fastest clocked processor to date. It is clocked at 3.7GHz, slightly shy of the highest clocks Intel officially reached on the Pentium 4 years ago.
On 5/4/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more

X86 Market Stays Flat in First Quarter 2011
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
According to x86 processor market share released by Mercury Research, the respective shares of Intel and AMD have remained mostly flat in the 1Q 2011. This boils down to Intel holding 81%, while AMD commands 18.2%.
On 4/28/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Moves CPU Architecture Into Tick-Tock Mode; schedules 20nm, 14nm APUs
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
On AMD FAD 2010, the company disclosed not just the codenames and product names of their upcoming products, but also released a glimpse in how are they going to develop in the future.
On 11/10/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Llano "Fusion" taped out, 32nm SOI CPU + GPU
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE ANALYSIS
Recently, we spoke with AMD about the announcements the company is making on this weeks' ISSCC Conference in San Francisco. It looks like K10 family is getting its third manufacturing process...
On 2/9/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Steam Hardware Survey November 2009: Over a Million new Win7 users!
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
After seeing the level of adoption of Windows 7, we are now starting to wonder how long until market share overtakes not just Windows Vista, but Windows XP as well?
On 12/29/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Intel Tick Tock slows down: Sandy Bridge slips into 2011?
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Lack of competition hurts the market - AMD's continuous delays of their next-gen architecture combined with Intel's ill-fated Larrabee effort resulted in slowdown of Intel's Tick-Tock cadence, starting with 32nm Westmere.
On 12/21/2009 by Nebojsa Novakovic... Comments (0) Read more
Steam Hardware Survey October 09: 1080p panels above 10%
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
Continuing our analysis of Steam's monthly hardware survey [July 2009, August 2009, September 2009], October update shows revealed that Back to School 2009 is an unfortunate miss for Windows 7 release date.
On 11/25/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

GPU Computing shows superior efficiency in Australian Outback
GRAPHICS, ENTERPRISE, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NEWS
A lot was said about the efficiency differences between CPU and GPU. But when we leave benchmarks and move into the real world, things tend to develop in a way you do[n't?] expect.
On 10/12/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD demonstrates 24 LCD setup on a single computer
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
You know what Eyefinity is, now the question is - what is the limit you can get from a single computer? AMD demonstrated a 24x24", 55.29 Mpixel [11520x4800] setup.
On 9/10/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Buy one PC, get another free
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
It looks like IBuyPower found a way to sell even more desktops: if you buy one of their gaming configurations, you'll get a MSI netbook for free!        
On 9/4/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Interview: OC legend Vince "Kingpin" Lucido
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE INTERVIEWS
Nobody arguably makes better LN2 [liquid nitrogen] containers than Kingpin Cooling. Vince Lucido aka k|ngp|n spoke with BSN* while recovering from some very painful tattoo work.
On 8/31/2009 by Chris Barton... Comments (0) Read more

AMD to launch its fastest CPU ever on August 13th, 2009
HARDWARE NEWS
AMD is getting ready to release fastest clocked processor in its history: 3.2 GHz barrier [Athlon 64, 64 X2, Phenom II 955] is falling with Phenom II 965 Black Edition, 3.4 GHz CPU.
On 8/3/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
A-Data launches DDR3-2200 with 2oz. copper PCB
HARDWARE NEWS
A-DATA announced XPG Plus Series DDR3-2200+ Dual Channel Kit, which is the highest clocked DDR3 RAM to be sold to date. Courtesy of advanced technology and a few tricks, of course.
On 7/28/2009 by Thomas Jørgen Jacobsen... Comments (0) Read more

Expert's view: What AMD needs to do to sell its TWKR processors
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Chris Morley, CTO of MAINGEAR Computers voices out his opinion on what AMD needs to do with its recently unveiled AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition.
On 7/6/2009 by Chris Morley... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition hits 7 GHz!
HARDWARE NEWS
During SF3D's overclocking event in Finland, AMD Phenom II 955 officially became the fastest quad-core processor to date, reaching 7.004 MHz!
On 7/6/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

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