Posted on 03 December 2008
Tags: AMD, AMD CPU, AMD Phenom, AMD Phenom II, AMD Phenom II CPU, AMD Phenom II X4, AMD Phenom II X4 920, AMD Phenom II X4 940, AMD Phenom II X4 CPU, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, CPU, Hardware, Intel, Intel 920, Intel 940, Intel Core i7, Intel Core i7 920, Intel Core i7 940, Intel CPU, Phenom, Phenom II CPU, Processors, Tech, Technology
I dunno about you, but I think that AMD has lost a lot in Intel’s favor. Actually, they lost almost all, but they are trying to get back on track. However, I don’t really enjoy their tactics - I guess you remember that guy who left Intel for AMD, but he also took their secrets [...]
Posted on 31 July 2008
Tags: AMD, AMD Chipsets, Apple, Chipsets, Intel, Intel Chipsets, Intel Larrabee, Intel Nehalem, Larrabee, Nehalem, nvidia, NVIDIA SLI, Snow Leopard, VIA, VIA Chipsets
Lately, there were some rumors that pointed to a change that Apple could make and this is that Apple might replace Intel chipsets with AMD or VIA chipsets for their products. Some consider this very unlikely, but so far nobody explained why. Also, nobody said to us why this change would be good and why [...]
Posted on 06 June 2008
Tags: AMD, Black Edition, core, CPU, hidden pins, overclocking, Phenom, SB700, SB750
This may seem quite unreal, but looks like the future AMD triple and quad-core Phenom processors will have a set of hidden pins that would enable slight modifications in the core’s performance when put together with specific chipsets.
The information popped up when a 2.8GHz Black Edition CPU was mounted on a SB700 motherboard, and began [...]
Posted on 22 May 2008
Tags: AMD, ATI, ATI Radeon, GDDR5, GDDR5 memory, GPU, graphic card, nvidia
6 months after Samsung unveiled their GDDR5 memory, AMD announced that the next generation of ATI Radeon graphics cards will be based on the fore-mentioned technology. AMD will name Qimonda as their new partners to supply them with the GDDR5 modules, which will benefit stream processing and also boost gaming performances.