AMD: "our goal is not to achieve x86 benchmark supremacy because it doesnÂ’t matter"
Godfrey Cheng, Director of Client Technology Unit at AMD, has posted a new blog about how despite offering roughly the same amount of transistors in the same size package, AMD's upcoming Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit codenamed Llano is superior to Intel's Sandy Bridge. Four years ago, our...
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Rage3D Previews The AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD are not allowing us to confirm, deny or acknowledge the existance of certain aspects of their newest Flagship graphics board, due to be launched before the end of Q1 2011. However, we can share with you some sweet and tasty pictures of the flagship card, codenamed Antilles. Image:...
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AMD Does Not Believe in Intel's Thunderbolt.
AMD: Thunderbolt Is Just Another Proprietary Standard Advanced Micro Devices, the second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors on the globe and the designer of half of the world's discrete graphics adapters, said that Intel Corp.'s recently introduced Thunderbolt input/output technology will...
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MSI's Radeon HD 6990-based graphics card looks the part (video)
More than just pictures, here's a video of a consumer-ready Radeon HD 6990 by MSI. If you've got a desktop case with a view, we can't think of a better thing to put on prominent display than a giant, red-trimmed graphics card -- and that's exactly what MSI's new Radeon HD 6990-based unit provides....
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AMD Appoints Henry Chow to Board of Directors
Hopefully Mr. Henry Chow will be an invaluable asset to AMD and continue to aid in it's growth. SUNNYVALE, Calif. —3/1/2011 AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Henry Chow, 65, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Chow spent more than 40 years at IBM, holding various...
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AMD Furthers Commitment to Embedded Customers with New Products and Expanded Support
New CPU models for AMD Embedded G-Series platform offer “Bobcat” core technology for headless applications and AMD Fusion Partner Program introduces new Systems and Technology track for embedded customers. NUREMBERG, Germany —3/1/2011 At Embedded World today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced a...
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 Press Deck Leaked
Rage3D reader Heinz68 let us know that Turkish site donanimhaber.com published all AMD confidential HD 6990 preview slides. While it is slated for release on the 8th of this month, AMD's Radeon HD 6990 was detailed to sections of the industry. It wasn't long before someone leaked the press deck,...
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[Rumor] AMD Radeon HD 6990 Might Not be PCIe Compliant
For compliance, it can't have a pair of 8 pin power connectors period. ---Quote (Originally by shadow001)--- The HD5970 card still had a 6 + 8 pin PCI-e power arrangement no matter what the user decided to overclock the card to after it was bought,and had PCI-e certification because at it's...
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The Future is not x86 vs. ARM - It's APU vs. CPU (ARM or x86)
Up until very recently, the CPU and the GPU in a PC were always separate because the technology to integrate them didnÂ’t exist. Now it does. As a result, the microprocessor industry is undergoing a rapid transformation. APUs are changing everything . . . quickly. Microprocessors with dedicated...
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Lucid Virtu GPU Virtualization Software Review - Sandy Bridge and Discrete coexist
Lucid says that its Virtu software performs "GPU Virtualization" technology in order to achieve what it does. That term might not make a lot sense as it's stated but in many ways this software was aided by the work Lucid did on HYDRA. The Lucid Virtu software is a layer that actually rests below...
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MSI and Gigabyte first out with B3 stepping P67 boards
Gigabyte is already shipping out B3 stepping motherboards for P67 while MSI is right behind them with an announcement about their exchange procedures going into effect now. Asus has already announced it's intentions, though no word yet on exact availability from them. EVGA never even got to market...
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AMD Demonstrates Drop-In Upgrade of Server from Magny-Cours to Interlagos [Bulldozer]
A quick proc swap and a BIOS update moves you to the new AMD Bulldozer core based Interlagos processors, a dual-MCM design with 16 cores per processor package: Upgradeability means that the current platforms that support AMD OpteronTM 4100/6100 Series processors should be the same as the platforms...
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Intel® Announces SSD 510 Series Featuring 6Gbps SATA
34nm technology based drives using SATA 3 6Gbps interface to offer high performance for premium users: Intel Corporation announced today the next in a line of new solid-state drives (SSD), the Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series. The new Intel SSD 510 features fast SATA 6 Gigabits per second...
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" in the Flesh
[H]ard|OCP slowly undresses the AMD Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" for us! For those of you that didn't have a chance to read the site over the weekend, we posted a sneak peek of the Radeon HD 6990 Antilles and gave you our thoughts (as much as we can at this point) on what we have seen so far. Hit the...
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AMD Announces Coreboot support for the AMD Embedded G-Series platform
Moving toward AMD APU appliances through embedded solutions using an open-source platform: One market, where AMD Embedded has struggled despite having a very compelling x86 offering is in the deeply embedded space where other architectures such as PowerPC, MIPs and ARM also play today. Frankly, in...
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