Category: CPU and Chipset - Published: December 13, 2007
AMD yesterday held its 2007 Financial Analyst Day in which it revealed its updated corporate roadmap. AMD has a flurry of new platform releases planned out for 2008, 2009 and 2010 and, contrary to previous analysts days, the company had no problem detailing its initiatives in full depth.
AMD’s recent Spider launch marked AMD’s first foray […]
Category: CPU and Chipset - Published: May 16, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices plans to tie up transition to a new process technology and to a new memory type, according to documents seen by X-bit labs. While the move has its own logical explanations, back in the past the company did not risk to execute a similar plan. AMD’s microprocessors produced using 45nm process technology […]
Category: CPU and Chipset - Published: May 14, 2007
AMD has unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed FASN8. The quad-core processors are expected to deliver a high-end visual experience, especially when paired with AMD’s new DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, which began shipping today. AMD expects quad-core and dual-core AMD Phenom-based […]
Category: CPU and Chipset - Published: May 3, 2007
AMD plans to release its K10-derived Stars-family desktop processors later this year. The new Stars-family processors take advantage of AMD’s Socket AM2+, an updated Socket AM2 platform that adds support for the faster Hyper Transport 3.0 bus. AMD’s latest roadmap divulges information on its upcoming Hyper Transport 3.0 compatible chipset family, arriving in Q3’2007.
The new […]
Category: CPU and Chipset - Published: April 14, 2007
Yesterday, AMD held a press presentation in Munich, Germany to update journalists about its upcoming K10 processor. AMD’s Giuseppe Amato, Technical Director Sales and Marketing EMEA, had a few minutes to talk about the architecture at length. The integrated memory controller (IMC) will get a few new features in the K10 core. When utilizing multiple […]