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AMD's Hondo APU will only support Windows 8 and Linux

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  • Posted September 17, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Software
  • AMD’s upcoming mobile chip codenamed Hondo will happily run inside Windows 8 tablets but those hoping to add Android support for dual-booting goodness are out of luck. Steve Belt, corporate VP of ultra low power products for AMD, recently told…

AMD's SeaMicro launches new servers with Opteron and Xeon chips

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  • Posted September 11, 2012, 11:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • SeaMicro has unveiled the first product updates to its energy-efficient server platform since being acquired by AMD earlier this year, launching the SM15000 server and Freedom Fabric storage enclosures. The new servers are aimed squarely at the cloud computing market, offering...

Weekend tech reading: AMD shares Steamroller details

Weekend tech reading: AMD shares Steamroller details
  • Posted September 2, 2012, 12:49 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Ever since the relatively disappointing debut of AMD's Bulldozer microarchitecture, we've been curious to find out what happens next. New architectures sometimes have their share of troubles, but they often bring with them quite a bit of headroom for improvement, especially once there's...

Discrete GPU shipments down in Q2, AMD regains market share

Discrete GPU shipments down in Q2, AMD regains market share
  • Posted August 28, 2012, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Gaming
  • Following on from another report earlier this month covering the entire graphics market, where Intel came on top once again thanks to its integrated offerings, JPR has released new market share figures related strictly to discrete add-in board (AIB) GPU…

AMD intros new FX quad-core, price cuts across the board; details on "Vishera" FX Series leak

AMD intros new FX quad-core, price cuts across the board; details on "Vishera" FX Series leak
  • Posted August 27, 2012, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Following a round of price cuts for its Radeon graphics cards last week, AMD is now revising prices across its processor lineup while also adding a new member to the existing FX family. The latter is a quad-core part based…

AMD plans new round of Radeon price cuts, Sleeping Dogs bundle

AMD plans new round of Radeon price cuts, Sleeping Dogs bundle
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • As expected, it didn’t take long for AMD’s response to Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 660 Ti to arrive. According to Anandtech, the company will be enacting a new round of price cuts later this week, which will be affecting the…

Hackers target AMD's blog, steal usernames, emails and passwords

Hackers target AMD
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web, IT Security
  • AMD’s official blog has become the latest victim of hackers after a four-man group known as r00tbeer breached its server, defaced their blog and dumped a SQL database with the user credentials of nearly 200 of the...

JPR: GPU shipments up 2.5% despite 1.5% decline in PC market

JPR: GPU shipments up 2.5% despite 1.5% decline in PC market
  • Posted August 16, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • Despite a decline in computer shipments, the second quarter of 2012 proved to be "good" if not "great" for the graphics hardware industry according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). GPU shipments totaled 126 million units, up 2.7% from the same…

AMD's response to GTX 660 Ti: new drivers, HD 7950 BIOS update

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  • Posted August 16, 2012, 3:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Software
  • With the Windows 8 RTM now available through official avenues, AMD has updated its display drivers to offer the first unified Catalyst release for Microsoft's last three operating systems. Radeon users running Windows 8 will benefit from support for DirectX…

AMD stock value on the rise following buyout chatter

AMD stock value on the rise following buyout chatter
  • Posted August 9, 2012, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Shares in Advanced Micro Devices are on the rise following speculation that the semiconductor company could be headed for a buyout. Share value shot up roughly 8 percent yesterday afternoon, topping out at $4.46 before dropping slightly to close the…

Apple chip designer Jim Keller heads back to AMD

Apple chip designer Jim Keller heads back to AMD
  • Posted August 1, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • AMD announced today that Jim Keller, the veteran engineer who led development of their successful K8 architecture over a decade ago, will be rejoining the company as corporate vice president and chief architect of AMD’s microprocessor cores. He is leaving…

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 Super OverClock Review

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 Super OverClock Review
  • Posted July 26, 2012, 11:10 PM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • Celebrating Tahiti's "half birthday" last month, AMD relaunched its Radeon HD 7970 with a "GHz Edition" that increased the reference design's core clock speed from 925MHz to 1GHz with the intention of allowing the company to claim it offered the world's fastest GPU. But the festivities were short-lived for several reasons.

    Now Gigabyte has taken matters into its own hands with what seems to be a far more interesting solution. Armed with five fans, nine heatpipes and a huge vapor chamber, one might consider the HD 7970 SOC to be overkill, and to that we say "hell yes!"

AMD to launch desktop "Trinity" and "Vishera" APUs in October

AMD to launch desktop "Trinity" and "Vishera" APUs in October
  • Posted July 16, 2012, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD has reportedly postponed the launch of its Trinity processors for desktops from August to October in order to make some adjustments to the chips’ designs, according to sources from motherboard makers talking to DigiTimes. The report is in line…

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7000-series pricing ahead of dual-GPU launch

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7000-series pricing ahead of dual-GPU launch
  • Posted July 16, 2012, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD is following up from the launch of its Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition graphics card, which sought to take the single-GPU performance crown from Nvidia’s GTX 680 late last month, with a new round of price cuts that will…

Gigabyte's five-fan, Super OverClock Radeon HD 7970

Gigabyte
  • Posted July 13, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware
  • [Upcoming review] Gigabyte has a long running tradition of releasing its own Super OverClock versions of popular high-end graphics cards featuring its distinctive three-fan design and factory overclocks. The latest model takes a break from the usual design however...

AMD awarded $12.6 million supercomputing grant by US government

AMD awarded $12.6 million supercomputing grant by US government
  • Posted July 12, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • AMD has been given a grant under the FastForward program to the tune of $12.6 million to research next generation supercomputing technology. The program is a joint effort between the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy designed…

Best of Graphics Cards: Gaming at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600

Best of Graphics Cards: Gaming at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600
  • Posted July 11, 2012, 2:00 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • A powerful graphics card is likely the most expensive component in your PC if you're a gamer, but with all current and past-gen GPUs available in the range of $100 to $500, it can be tough to pick the right solution for your needs.

    In an effort to narrow things down, we're about to compare today's most relevant gaming cards that sell for $200 or more, testing them in a slew of games to see how it breaks down as we look for the best graphics cards for gaming at resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

AMD slashes Q2 revenue guidance, shares slide

AMD slashes Q2 revenue guidance, shares slide
  • Posted July 10, 2012, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell as much as 9% in early trading after the chip vendor slashed its second quarter sales outlook, which is now expected to fall 11% from the first quarter. The company originally expected revenue…

Intel appeals $1.33bn antitrust fine to EU's second highest court

Intel appeals $1.33bn antitrust fine to EU
  • Posted July 5, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • Intel has appealed against its record antitrust fine, labeling the evidence used against it by the European antitrust regulators as "profoundly inadequate" following a record €1.06 billion ($1.33bn) fine for anti-competitive practices...

Catalyst 12.6 drivers improve performance, plug security hole

Catalyst 12.6 drivers improve performance, plug security hole
  • Posted June 29, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, Gaming
  • The official release of AMD's Catalyst 12.6 driver has finally hit the scene. As expected, the unified driver features a long list of bug fixes and improvements for users with video cards dating back to the Radeon HD 2400 series.…

AMD Goes For The Crown: Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

AMD Goes For The Crown: Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review
  • Posted June 22, 2012, 1:33 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • Having successfully launched their first 28nm GPU last January, AMD went on to release an entire family of Radeon HD 7000 GPUs over the next few months. The last of the series were the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 graphics cards, which were closely followed by the launch of Nvidia’s next generation flagship part, the GeForce GTX 680.

    Fast forward to the present day and it'd appear that AMD is desperate to claim the bragging rights of offering the single fastest GPU money can buy. As the name suggests the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition features a core clock speed of 1GHz, along with overclocked GDDR5 memory running at 1500MHz. But is it worth it?

Dual-GPU AMD graphics card makes appearance at AMD summit

Dual-GPU AMD graphics card makes appearance at AMD summit
  • Posted June 15, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • At AMD's Fusion Developer Summit 2012, the company announced a brand new, high-end workstation offering labeled the AMD FirePro W9000. While the top-shelf graphics solution is a noteworthy announcement on its own, there was one curious inconsistency which caught the…

AMD lists first desktop Trinity APUs, arriving in all-in-one PCs this month

AMD lists first desktop Trinity APUs, arriving in all-in-one PCs this month
  • Posted June 14, 2012, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Despite rumors that the second generation Trinity APU family for traditional and all-in-one desktops had been delayed until sometime this fall, AMD has gone ahead and quietly detailed the upcoming lineup. These chips will be based on the same quad-core design as AMD's mobile Trinity APUs...

HSA Foundation announced, AMD licenses ARM technology

HSA Foundation announced, AMD licenses ARM technology
  • Posted June 13, 2012, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments on Tuesday announced the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, a new non-profit consortium that seeks to "define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing that will provide…

AMD Trinity APU desktop parts delayed until this fall

AMD Trinity APU desktop parts delayed until this fall
  • Posted June 12, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD took the wraps off their long-awaited second generation Trinity APU last month. When it was announced, we were told the APU would power mainstream and ultrathin notebooks as well as traditional and all-in-one desktops. While that still remains true,…

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