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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.
Triple screen gaming with Samsung and AMD
01/08/2010, [CES 2010] I randomly bumped onto this triple-display gaming setup from Samsung, powered by AMD. Even today, few games are supporting multi-monitor gaming, but it’s still cool to see it in action. Samsung has worked on reducing the bezel size [...]
Acer Ferrari One Notebook
12/09/2009, If you’re looking out for a new notebook to tote around, you’ll want to check out Acer’s latest Ferrari One. It boasts a 11.6-inch display, dual-core AMD Athlon CPU, 4GB of RAM and an ATI HD 3200 graphics chip. Aside [...]
AMD to demo Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D Playback
12/07/2009, CES 2010 ought to be interesting as AMD prepares us by announcing that they will be demonstrating Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D Playback there. Guess 3D entertainment has just taken on a whole new level with this technology! It would be interesting [...]
MSI X430 Gets AMD Neo Processors
11/28/2009, MSI has added another slim laptop to its X-Slim line of ultraportables. The successor to the X410 is the X430, and it doubles the number of cores with its Athlon Neo X2. Graphics will be handled by its Radeon HD [...]
ARM loves Google OS
11/24/2009, I just read an upbeat post about Chrome OS from Bob Morris, the director of Mobile computing at ARM. Here’s an excerpt: It truly levels the playing field for platforms. For the most part today, the OS and HW are [...]
ATI announces Radeon HD 5970
11/17/2009, ATI has just announced the fastest video card in the world, taking over from where NVIDIA left off after a long, long time clawing its way back to the pinnacle of its game. Touted to be the speediest card ever [...]
AMD ATI HD 5970 price leaked
11/16/2009, Guess you can’t keep a good thing hidden – the AMD ATI HD 5970 graphics card that boasts dual GPUs alongside 2GB RAM has had its pricing leaked, purportedly going for a wallet bustin’ $599.99 – for a video card, [...]
AMD Breaks 7GHZ Barrier
11/14/2009, While most people out there are talking about Intel’s Core i5 or i7, let’s not forget about AMD’s Phenom II processor. As can be seen in the picture above, some folks have managed to break the 7GHz barrier with this [...]
Intel To Offer Larrabee At Preferential Prices?
11/03/2009, If you’re interested in computer graphics, you’ll certainly have heard of Intel’s upcoming high-end Larrabee GPU. Sources online claim that Intel is planning to offer preferential pricing for the GPU on its own, as well as bundled with other Intel [...]
AMD 6-Core Thuban Processors In 2010
11/01/2009, With Intel bullying AMD around with its Core i7 processors, AMD will be gearing up to hit back with its rumored AMD Thuban 6-core processors. While AMD hasn’t officially confirmed but, but the Thuban should sport 45nm processing cores, support [...]
AMD Radeon HD 5970 video card leaked
10/30/2009, The AMD Radeon HD 5970 video card has been leaked out without any official announcement just yet, although there is an image of it as shown above. This video card was reportedly supposed to be the HD 5870X2 originally, where [...]
ATI To Power Next-gen Xbox?
10/14/2009, There isn’t anything official on this just yet, but if our sources around the Internet are to be believed, it seems that AMD/ATI has already got the deal to power the next-generation Xbox console. This probably shows that Microsoft is [...]
The ATI Radeon HD 5800 is the fastest GPU in town
09/23/2009, The Next generation AMD GPU has arrived: The ATI Radeon HD 5870 should have been called Radeon 2X: when compared to the Radeon HD 4890, It has twice the number of stream processors, twice the transistors, twice the texture and [...]
