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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 ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View carries four Mini DisplayPort connectors
04/26/2010, AMD’s latest workstation class video card, the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View, will come with a quartet of Mini DisplayPort connectors where you can use all four simultaneously, depending on the configuration of choice. Apart from that, you can also merge [...]
AMD Ontario Fusion-based processor
04/22/2010, Word has it that AMD has released samples of a second Fusion-based processor known as “Ontario”, where it will target low power devices such as netbooks, tablets and other simpler gizmos. The Ontario is basically a System on a Chip [...]
Acer Aspire One 521 Netbook To Get An AMD Processor?
04/19/2010, Despite Intel’s Atom processor enjoying much of the success in the netbook market, let’s not forget that AMD is also still in the game, and word is going around the Acer is gearing up to launch a new 10.1-inch netbook [...]
AMD Introduces The ATI FirePro V8800
04/07/2010, AMD has just introduced the ATI FirePro V8800, supporting DirectX 11 features, similar to that from the Radeon HD 5000 series, albeit with hardware and software that has been optimized for workstations. The core is capable of handling 2.6 teraflops [...]
AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card unveiled
03/31/2010, AMD has released its ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card that is capable of offering stunning performance thanks to its 2GB of GDDR5 memory alongside rendering capability in excess of 1 billion pixels per second (!) in [...]
Details On Upcoming AMD Processors Leaked
03/19/2010, AMD should be releasing its desktop-oriented 6-core processors, codenamed Thuban, next month. The first release should see four chips, the Phenom II X6 1035T, 1055T (in 95W and 125W TDP versions), and the 1075T being released. The chips, manufactured on [...]
AMD Fusion processors out next year
03/11/2010, Netbooks looks set to be here to stay for many more years, co-existing peacefully with notebooks, and this has finally caused AMD to shift gear by catering for a dedicated netbook processor under their Fusion range that ought to see [...]
New Asus Motherboard Can Unlock Latent AMD CPU Cores
03/03/2010, If you’re trying to eke performance out of your computer, the Asus M4A89GTD PRO series motherboard might just be able to give you that extra edge that you’ve been looking for, especially since it can enable the instant unlocking of [...]
AMD ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card
02/09/2010, AMD has rolled out its latest ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card which is an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX 11 card that targets small form factor PCs. Despite its relatively small size, it still sports full DirectX 11 support, ATI [...]
AMD ATI Radeon HD5450 graphics card
02/04/2010, AMD outs its latest ATI Radeon HD5450 graphics card, being the most affordable DirectX 11 (and OpenGL 3.2) solution in the market as at press time, retailing for no more than $60 a pop. Despite that highly affordable price point, [...]
Intel And AMD Gearing Up For 6-core Processors
01/30/2010, Looks like we’ll be seeing some 6-core processors from both Intel and AMD sometime soon. Intel will be offering its Core i7-980X from the end of March, though you’ll need some pretty deep pockets to pay for its asking price [...]
AMD has new Phenom II and Athlon II processors on the cheap
01/25/2010, AMD just unveiled its latest batch of processors that won’t go beyond the $100 price point by far, with the AMD Athlon II X2 255 3.1GHz processor retailing for a mere $74 in industrial quantities, whereas the AMD Athlon II [...]
AMD unveils ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module
01/22/2010, AMD has lifted the curtains on its ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module which will target graphics-intensive embedded systems. Boasting compliance to the industry-standard MXM 3.0 specification for graphics subsystems, you will find that the Radeon E4690 features reduced [...]
