Tag Archive for "amd"
AMD finally launches Trinity
A look at the 5 mobile parts launching today
AMD’s Trinity is finally here, and the first question on everyone’s mind is what is launching.
AMD’s Chuck Moore has passed away
Tech has lost one of it's brightest lights
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news that Chuck Moore, AMD Fellow and all around great guy has passed away.
Emilio Ghilardi leaves AMD
No word on this one, good, bad, or otherwise
AMD today announced Emilio Ghilardi, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, has left the company.
How does AMD’s Leo demo use GPU compute?
GDC 2012: Tiles and forward rendering
A lot of people question why GPU compute is needed for graphics, and the best example is AMD’s Leo demo.
Intel buys Cray’s interconnect arm but not for that reason
Laughably comical back-pedalling over AMD's SeaMicro buy
What do you do when your baby gets purchased out from under you?
AMD launches mobile HD7000 GPUs
Welcome the new HD7700M, HD7800M, and HD7900M
AMD has finally launched the HD7000M line we told you about last August with three new chips.
Adobe accelerates CS6 with OpenCL
Speed for the unwashed masses
Adobe and AMD today anounced that the next Creative Suite 6 (CS6) will be OpenCL based.
GCN-based Radeon HD 7000M series featuring “Enduro”
Levelling the playing field, oh and Windows 7-friendly
28nm GCN-based AMD Radeon HD 7000M series continues AMD’s mission to get some more check marks in terms of feature sets, and compete with NVIDIA offerings.
Where will AMD make 28nm APUs?
Question answered in the Q1 conference call
AMD solved a mystery about where the next gen parts are going to be fabbed in yesterday’s conference call.
Two new keynotes announced for AFDS
Gaikai, Penguin, but probably not an earthworm, Jim.
AMD just announced two more keynotes for this year’s AFDS conference, Gaikai and Penguin Computing.
AMD drops HD7900 prices, bundles three games
Dirt Showdown, Nexuiz, and Deus Ex:HR for free
AMD is dropping the price on their 7000 series cards today, but luckily that is only the start of the good news.
Godfrey Cheng leaves AMD
Another good guy out the door
It is our sad duty to report that Godfrey Cheng is leaving AMD.
AMD launches 1S Opteron 3200 series
Low cost hosting part for large providers
AMD is launching single socket Opteron’s today, welcome the new 3200 series.
Simple Fixes and Library Updates
ATI’s first Crossfire implementations still haunt us today...
One of my favorite games is an older real time strategy game called Company of Heroes; it’s a game that I’ve purchased five copies of.
AMD launches the last two HD7000 cards, HD7870 and HD7850
Filled in the gaps days before the competition start out
Reviews are always made quicker and easier by the utter lack of driver to run the product, so the AMD HD7800 series was a snap.
Sony Playstation 4 will be an x86 CPU with an AMD GPU
But that is only the beginning of the story
With the current wave of Playstation 4 leaks, it is time to spill some of the beans on what we know about the console.
Fusion based SeaMicro box to tip up really soon
Hugely coincidental timing, isn't it?
SeaMicro will have an AMD based server out in the very near future, almost as if they timed it with the company’s sale.
Why purchasing SeaMicro was important for AMD
Analysis: Few understand this deadly important server market
There are a lot of people that don’t understand what the AMD/SeaMicro deal is about, and the rampant handwaving is starting to get annoying.
AMD buys SeaMicro, and what a buy it is
And the new AMD server direction is......
It looks like AMD is starting the rumored acquisition spree with the impending purchase of SeaMicro.
Mixed Results for GPU sector
Better than last year, worse than Q3…
Word has just come in from everyone’s favorite market research group, Jon Peddie Research…
Intel vs phones vs ARM vs laptops
Deja vu all over again once again
The following is a modern re-interpretation of an older article on a completely different subject, call it deja vu.
AMD HD7770 Cape Verde with “Verdetrol 1GHz”
You don’t need pills for “extra performance”, just overclock it
AMD is launching its Radeon HD 7700 series discrete GPU today as the world’s first one GHz GPU for the $99 to $199 mainstream market segment.
Whispers say Eric Demers out at AMD
Is there anyone left?
Word has it that there is another high level casualty at AMD, once again on the graphics side of the house.
Two interesting demos at AMD FAD 2012
Nothing new, but still neat
At Financial Analyst Day 2012, AMD had the usual bunch of demos out, two of which were really interesting.
Fabless Works for AMD
Deep partnerships with both Global Foundries and TSMC keep things humming...
There have been a lot of stories lately about AMD’s future. One rather overlooked story is how AMD is moving forward with its fabless supply chain strategy.
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