A brief look at AMD’s Steamroller core
Hot Chips 24: Big numbers, plausible but vague details
At Hot Chips 24, AMD’s Mark Papermaster gave a keynote speech that had a few technical tidbits in it.
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AMD Media SDK Announced At AFDS
Exposing fixed function hardware to the masses...
What this SDK aims to do is enable the use of AMD’s fixed function hardware blocks and GPU acceleration abilities by exposing them through APIs and code samples.
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AMD and ARM joined by Imagination, TI, and MediaTek
AFDS 2012: HSA foundation aims to mix, match, and code
It’s starting. At AFDS, AMD today announced the HSA Foundation, basically a governing body for the HSA/FSA architecture.
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Computex 2012: AMD to launch Tahiti 2 next week
To 1GHz and beyond!
AMD is going to be launching Tahiti 2 in the near future, at least according to almost every board maker in Taipei.
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AMD delays desktop Trinity one quarter
Unlikely to be for technical reasons UPDATED
It looks like AMD is going to delay the desktop version of Trinity until September.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What good are benchmarks when a PC is ‘good enough’?
Modern problems for modern systems
With each new chip that comes out, benchmarks become less and less relevant, and are now almost pointless.
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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.
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Godfrey Cheng leaves AMD
Another good guy out the door
It is our sad duty to report that Godfrey Cheng is leaving AMD.
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What’s the right way to launch a graphics card?
Nvidia’s GTX 680 sells out from online retailers in less than a day…
The GTX 680 is without a doubt a card that has been well received by many reviewers.
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AFDS 2012: All the news, plus links
Updated with links as we go.
All the AFDS 2012 stuff here.
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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.
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