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AMD has announced the latest addition to its embedded product lineup, the Sempron 2100+ processor. The new Sempron 2100+ has a thermal design power rating of nine watts – an ideal pick for fan-less embedded systems. The Sempron 2100+ is packaged in a Socket S1 package and is compatible with the AMD M690T chipset. It […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sunnyvale, Calif. — May 14, 2007 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the ATI Radeon HD™ 2000 series, a top-to-bottom line of ten discrete graphics processors (GPUs) for both desktop and mobile platforms. This family of GPUs delivers The Ultimate Visual Experience™ through best-in-class immersive high-definition gaming and high-definition multimedia playback.
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What we learned today is that Agena, the firm’s upcoming desktop quad-core processor in fact is alive and kicking and stream processing may very well reach beyond the enterprise application market and finally enable high-powered consumer applications the IT industry promised ten years ago.

AMD is sailing through rough seas these days and there wasn’t much […]

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.
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This new architecture will first make an appearance with the introduction of the Barcelona-family server processors. K10 features a native quad-core design that incorporates shared-L3 cache, HyperTransport-3 support and backwards functionality with AM2 motherboards. The original K10 desktop and server processors will debut on the 65nm architecture while in the second half of 2008, AMD […]

Over the next two weeks AMD will slowly begin to introduce its new brand name for high end desktop CPUs. The brand, Phenom, will succeed Athlon on all K10 offerings. Dual-core Agena processors will be labeled as Phenom X2; quad-core Agena as Phenom X4. The halo products, Agena FX and its family, […]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, competing with aggressive pricing!
“AMD has been taking a beating lately; when Intel released its Core 2 microprocessor family it was priced and performed aggressively, too aggressively for AMD to adequately compete with at the time. AMD’s marketing even went into remission as reviewers weren’t even seeded for speed bumps to […]

Less than one week after disclosing a $611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors. AMD will offer an initial $1.8 billion in convertible notes and will offer buyers an option to purchase an […]