Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Coming Soon

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Coming Soon
AMD is going to release the new Phenom II X4 965BE next week, according to Tweaktown.

We’ve also found a little info about this processor from the AsRock website, and according to the chart shown below, the model name of Phenom II X4 965BE is HDZ965FBK4DGI. The chip is [...]

Overclocking Trials Push AMD PhenomTM II Processors to the Limit

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

PC speed-freaks from across Europe will be pushing their processors to the limit in a series of extreme overclocking trials over the next month. The trials, which have been organised by AMD (NYSE:AMD), will see forum users from 19 leading technology forums from across the continent compete in a series of pedal-to-the-metal contests where they [...]

Pushing AMD PhenomTM II Processors to the Limit

Monday, June 1st, 2009

PC speed-freaks from across Europe will be pushing their processors to the limit in a series of extreme overclocking trials over the next month. The trials, which have been organised by AMD (NYSE:AMD), will see forum users from 19 leading technology forums from across the continent compete in a series of pedal-to-the-metal contests where they [...]

AMD Delivers World’s First 1GHz Graphics Processor

Monday, May 18th, 2009

AMD has announced availability of a factory overclocked graphics processor that is the first to break the 1 GHz barrier using standard air-cooling solutions.

According to AMD, the new ATI Radeon HD 4890 utilizes advanced GDDR5 memory and a 1GHz clock speed to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power. AMD also lists a dozen of ATI [...]

AMD Opteron Processor Upgrade Program Drives Faster Time to Benefit in the Data Center

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Bangalore, India, April 07, 2009— Offering partners and customers another cost-effective way to benefit from the performance and efficiency of AMD OpteronTM processor technology, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a global AMD Opteron Upgrade Program. The program includes 2000 series and 8000 series dual- and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors along with the upcoming six-core processor [...]

Dual-core Phenom, Calisto is coming in June

Monday, May 18th, 2009

3.0GHz and 3.1GHz
Phenom II X2 550 will be the 3.1GHz dual core Phenom II. This is a harvested version of Deneb quad-core, that will have two cores disabled and we’ve learned that it should launch in June, and Computex might be a good time.
This dual-core can achieve very high performance as it [...]

32nm CPUs next year from AMD

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Although Advanced Micro Devices was previously expected to get ready to produce central processing units under the 32-nanometer process technology only in 2011, it seems that the chip maker plans to speed things up a little. Dirk Meyer, chief executive of AMD, stated recently that the company was set to “ramp up” production in the [...]

AMD Phenom II AM3 pricing

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

With estimated dollar-to-pound pricing hovering between £100-£150, knowing what etailers will be charging, on pre-order, can enhance or detract away from the attractiveness of the DDR2/DDR3-compatible CPUs. Priced, say, 15 per cent too much and they become pointless. Priced 15 per cent lower than what we reckoned in the review and they become intrinsically attractive.
Let’s [...]

AMD finally launches fastest cpu: Phenom II

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

AMD’s 45nm, quad-core Phenom II has finally arrived. It’s available in two flavors, the 2.8GHz X4 920 and the 3.0GHz X4 940 Black Edition, going for $235 and $275, respectively. AMD’s naturally touting the ostensible cost savings of the chips . The Dragon platform includes a Phenom II proc, 4800-series Radeon HD graphics and a [...]

AMD unleashes linux code for general purpose computing

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

AMD, the chip rival for Intel has released “the fundamental Linux code” that is needed to develop open-source 3D-acceleration drivers for its R600 and R700 ATI graphic-processors series.
The news is intended for those who want to create drivers for potent GPU series of ATI Radeon HD 2×00, HD 3×00 (both R600), and Radeon HD 4×00 [...]