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AMD, also known as Advanced Micro Devices, is a semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California. The company was founded on May 1, 1969 by a group of ex-Fairchild Semiconductor executives. AMD’s products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers. The company also offers embedded systems applications. Currently, AMD is the second-largest supplier of x86 architecture-based microprocessors and one of the largest GPU suppliers in the world.
AMD Thuban hexa-core processors
09/21/2009, AMD is going to roll out hexa-core processors to consumer computers, otherwise known as the Thuban. In addition, these uber-fast processors will be backwards compatible with current AM3 and AM2+ motherboards, making us wonder whether this could dent Intel’s bottom [...]
AMD Athlon II X4: quad-core computing under $100
09/16/2009, AMD is back at providing great value to the consumer: its new Athlon II X4 brings a level of performance that is comparable to Intel’s Q8xxx series, but at a much lower price point. AMD has designed this processor to [...]
Crysis on iPhone
09/14/2009, Just how powerful are AMD’s next generation GPUs? Strong enough to run Crysis-level graphics on the iPhone – as demonstrated by AMD using their next-gen platform’s 2.5 teraFLOPS of floating-point power and DirectX 11 abilities. Does this signal the death [...]
AMD chip drives 6 displays, might be useful for 10 people on the planet
09/11/2009, This morning, AMD demonstrated in grand fanfare its new chip’s ability to drive 6 displays. And because you can pack four graphics cards in a (big) PC, that’s a total of 24 screens at once, driven by a single computer. [...]
AMD EyeFinity paraded
09/10/2009, AMD just took their soon-to-be Radeon HD 5800 series graphics chipset out for a spin, where it is also known as Eyefinity. They hooked up the ATI-branded technology video card to half a dozen DisplayPort outputs that were running at [...]
AMD Congo unveiled
09/10/2009, AMD has just rolled out its latest Congo processor, the next-generation Ultrathin Platform that will comprise of a speedy 1.6GHz Turion Neo X2 while featuring specifications that focuses on graphics performance and battery life. Congo will rely on a Radeon [...]
MSI to roll out AMD Yukon notebooks
08/21/2009, Word has it that MSI from Taiwan will roll out their new range of AMD Yukon-powered ultra-thin notebooks sometime this October, although there could be unforseen circumstances where the October release date will have to be pushed back until further [...]
CPU against GPU in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
07/28/2009, WSJ’s Don Clark has written an interesting article about how GPUs (graphics processing unit) and CPUs (central processing unit) are competing to be the top processor in Hollywood’s Computer Graphics (CG) business. In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, ILM [...]
AMD CPU+GPU fusion in 22nm in 2010?
07/24/2009, Rumor has it that AMD’s CPU and GPU “fusion” won’t happen until the second half of 2010 when the 22nm (nanometer) process will be ready for production. Intel has already shown its plans for a CPU+GPU integration in the form [...]
Caustic hardware ray-tracing to be shown at SIGGRAPH
07/22/2009, You might have seen the first CausticOne card on this site some time ago: it was a prototype of a hardware ray-tracing accelerator that will be demonstrated at SIGGRAPH this summer. Caustic Graphics is not the first company to try accelerating [...]
AMD RS880 Integrated Graphics
07/02/2009, AMD isn’t going to take things lying down with their ATi line of graphics chipsets, letting NVIDIA rule unchallenged in the video landscape, and has hit back with the RS880 integrated graphics which will feature AMD’s new Radeon HD 4200 [...]
AMD Introduces ATI Radeon E4690
06/01/2009, AMD has released its latest video card, the ATI Radeon E4690 that will feature a similar embedded chipset as that of newer Radeon HD 4000 chipsets, although it manages to cram the visual core and 512MB of GDDR3 memory into [...]
AMD Merging Its CPU and GPU Business
05/06/2009, Three years after buying ATI, AMD is reorganizing its GPU and CPU business under the same roof. The goal is to unify the company’s goals, but also unify CPU and GPU in a single chip – the vision that led [...]
