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AMD's upcoming 'Richland' APU clock speeds detailed

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  • Posted January 29, 2013, 9:39 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • With AMD's successor to Trinity already shipping to computer makers we’ve been hearing more and more details about the upcoming parts. Last week, Chinese website Expreview revealed the initial lineup for Richland on the desktop, and now VR-Zone is complementing…

MSI GX60 notebook ships with Win8, Trinity, HD 7970M for $1,300

MSI GX60 notebook ships with Win8, Trinity, HD 7970M for $1,300
  • Posted November 8, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Folks shopping for a new gaming notebook with Windows 8 preinstalled have at least one option from MSI. The new GX60 is properly equipped to handle most modern PC games on respectable settings, and although it's pricier than you'd pay for a desktop equivalent, the system...

AMD A10-5800K APU Review: Trinity Comes to the Desktop

AMD A10-5800K APU Review: Trinity Comes to the Desktop
  • Posted October 2, 2012, 10:47 PM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • AMD has continued refining its Fusion offerings since launching the first APUs early last year. Just four months ago the company launched Trinity for mobile platforms -- arguably where its APUs provide the most value.

    Now AMD is finally prepared to offer a desktop version, which brings a new socket and a new high-end chipset. Given that Piledriver improved Bulldozer's power consumption, we expect Trinity to be more efficient than Llano, while Cayman's VLIW4 architecture should boost the GPU's speed -- or so we hope.

Weekend tech reading: What HTPC users can expect from Trinity

Weekend tech reading: What HTPC users can expect from Trinity
  • Posted September 30, 2012, 12:38 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Intel started the trend of integrating a GPU along with the CPU in the processor package with Clarkdale / Arrandale. The GPU moved to the die itself in Sandy Bridge. Despite having a much more powerful GPUs at its disposal (from the ATI acquisition), AMD was a little late...

AMD details second gen A-Series desktop APUs, coming next week

AMD details second gen A-Series desktop APUs, coming next week
  • Posted September 27, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD has unveiled the launch lineup for their second generation A-Series APUs for desktops based on Trinity silicon. The chip designer launched mobile processors of the same variety earlier this year to take advantage of seasonal back-to-school sales while desktop…

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 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 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...

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,…

Rumor: AMD "Piledriver" FX CPU production to begin Q3 2012

Rumor: AMD "Piledriver" FX CPU production to begin Q3 2012
  • Posted May 24, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Citing information from "industry sources", TechPowerup reports that the next generation of AMD FX processors will be in production during Q3 of 2012. While the wheels of production are expected to spin up for high-end FX desktop CPUs later this…

Leaked slides shed more light on upcoming Trinity APUs

Leaked slides shed more light on upcoming Trinity APUs
  • Posted May 3, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD is expected to release their next generation Trinity APU very soon but if you are growing impatient and would like an early look at some key features, keep reading. A series of leaked slides have found their way to…

AMD Trinity and Brazos 2.0 APUs ship to OEMs, launching this quarter

AMD Trinity and Brazos 2.0 APUs ship to OEMs, launching this quarter
  • Posted April 20, 2012, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • AMD has confirmed that its next-generation accelerated processing units (APUs) under the A-Series "Trinity" and E/C-Series "Brazos 2.0" lines, have begun shipping to device manufacturers and should start showing up in consumer laptops and desktops this quarter. The chips represent…

Report: Intel Ivy Bridge launch set for April 29, AMD Trinity on May 15

Report: Intel Ivy Bridge launch set for April 29, AMD Trinity on May 15
  • Posted April 5, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • More information on Intel and AMD's planned launch for their respective next-generation processors has come to light thanks a couple of reports by CPU World and SWEClockers. According to the former, Intel will kick things off announcing the first desktop…

AMD's Piledriver-based chips to feature energy-recycling tech

AMD
  • Posted February 22, 2012, 10:51 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD is working hard on a successor to the Bulldozer core that arrived in the last quarter of 2011 with its FX desktop CPU lineup. Dubbed "Piledriver", little details are available about the new processor cores so far, except that…

IBM will manufacture some 32nm "Trinity" APUs for AMD

IBM will manufacture some 32nm "Trinity" APUs for AMD
  • Posted February 6, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • AMD has reportedly enlisted IBM to manufacture some of its next-generation Fusion chips, code-named "Trinity". The move was disclosed by the company's CEO Rory Read at an analyst event and follows a string of low yield issues with 32nm chips…

AMD will focus less on desktop CPUs, more on mobile APUs

AMD will focus less on desktop CPUs, more on mobile APUs
  • Posted February 3, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, Hardware Breaking News
  • During its annual Financial Analyst Day last evening, AMD shared its products and initiatives for the next two years. Along with pledging to better execute its ideas, the company said it would focus on system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, low-power solutions and heterogeneous computing...

AMD Trinity APU internal benchmark slides surface

AMD Trinity APU internal benchmark slides surface
  • Posted November 21, 2011, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD's upcoming 'Trinity' APU is expected to swing into production as early as January 2012 and arrive in actual products somewhere around late Q1 and early Q2. Although details are rather thin regarding performance, the Turks over at DonanimHaber have…

Rumor: AMD's Llano to remain in short supply until 2012

Rumor: AMD
  • Posted October 3, 2011, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Last week, AMD revised its third quarter revenue forecast warning that manufacturing issues at GlobalFoundries had curbed supply of Llano processors. The company said they were throwing substantial resources at improving 32nm yields and that progress was being made. However,…

AMD unveils Radeon E6460, roadmap reveals 2012 desktop plans

AMD unveils Radeon E6460, roadmap reveals 2012 desktop plans
  • Posted September 26, 2011, 4:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD has unveiled a new embedded discrete graphics processor with double the 3D graphics-crunching power as its E2400 GPU. The entry-level Radeon E6460 GPU "sets a new bar" for features and performance among its kind and AMD supposedly plans to…

Leaked roadmap details AMD's upcoming mobile APUs

Leaked roadmap details AMD
  • Posted September 26, 2011, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • A leaked AMD roadmap, dated July 2011, is doing the rounds online with details about Llano's mobile successor in 2012 and offering a peek at the company's 2013 Fusion plans. According to the slides posted at the 3DCenter forum, AMD's…

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