Things are looking up for AMD. We're out in Austin, Texas this week for a preview of the upcoming 45nm Phenom II processor. While we're not allowed to divulge full details of the new chip, we can reveal it has massive overclocking headroom. Yesterday ...
21 Nov 2008
New York state’s economic development arm has delayed a vote on funding for the Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plant in Malta, N.Y., by at least a month. The board of directors of the Empire State Development Corp. meets Thursday in Manhattan. Board ...
21 Nov 2008
Hello everyone, i hope someone can give me some ideas on what might be wrong with my system. I currently just finished my dream gaming PC. To start off I decided to go with AMD, so i had purchased everything i needed that would be compatible as far ...
21 Nov 2008
New York state’s economic development arm has delayed a vote on funding for the Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plant in Malta, N.Y., by at least a month. The board of directors of the Empire State Development Corp. meets Thursday in Manhattan. Board ...
21 Nov 2008
After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz ...
21 Nov 2008
AMD's mainstream Phenom II processors should rekindle the competition with Intel for clock speed, according to a collection of reports of an AMD demonstration session. Based on the recently unveiled Shanghai architecture being used for new Opterons ...
21 Nov 2008
From AMD's upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it's AMD's second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the "overhead" built into...
21 Nov 2008
No, you're not looking at some high-precision, multimeter-laden kegerator ; the above is a picture from a recent AMD event in which things apparently got a little out of hand. The company started by talking up its upcoming Dragon platform (Phenom II X4, Radeon 4800 graphics, and 7-series chipset), took a few moments to discuss how its new 45nm chips will use 30-50 percent less power ...
21 Nov 2008
AMD's mainstream Phenom II processors should rekindle the competition with Intel for clock speed, according to a collection of reports of an AMD demonstration session. Based on the recently unveiled Shanghai architecture being used for new Opterons, the quad-core desktop chips should make a modest leap to 3GHz in official clock speeds but will have room for overclocking previously only available ...
21 Nov 2008
After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz using dry ice as a coolant, and well over 5GHz using liquid nitrogen (LN2) coolant. So, what's the point of this demo? After all, not many people have ...
21 Nov 2008
AMD SHOWED OFF its upcoming 45-nanometer 'Deneb' desktop chips for reviewers in Texas on Thursday, and overclocked it to what some observers said was 6.3GHz.
21 Nov 2008
No, you're not looking at some high-precision, multimeter-laden kegerator; the above is a picture from a recent AMD event in which things apparently got a little out of hand. The company started by talking up its upcoming Dragon ...
21 Nov 2008
Electronista | AMD debuts 45nm 4-core Shanghai Opteron - AMD has taken the wraps off it's 45nm quad-core 'Shanghai' Opteron processor line ", promising improved performance and energy savings. The company says "Shanghai" will be widely ...
21 Nov 2008
AMD’s plans to spin off its manufacturing operations as the Foundry Company received an unexpected blow this week from the man who more or less single-handedly created the concept of chip foundries. Foundries take designs from firms ...
21 Nov 2008
The first quad-core central processing unit (CPU) for notebooks in AMD’s line will be code-named “Champlain” and will be the base of the code-named “Danube” platform, AMD revealed at last week’s meeting with financial analysts. ...
21 Nov 2008
AMD overclocks 45nm Phenoms to 4GHz and beyond - According to AMD's latest roadmaps, 45nm Phenom II processors are just a few weeks away from launch—they'll materialize at the Consumer Electronic Show in early January. Not a bad time .
20 Nov 2008
Is Intel Bailing Out AMD? - It's surely not intentional, but Intel looks like they're giving AMD a chance to get back on its feet with its Bloomfield positioning. XbitLabs has seen a copy of Intel's ...
20 Nov 2008