After several delays, AMD plans to launch its long-awaited R600 graphics processors. AMD is currently briefing select members of the press on its R600 architecture in the Tunisia, but there is no embargo date on the R600 for DailyTech — we can show you benchmarks now. AMD plans to launch a completely new DirectX 10 […]
“Earlier this week, AMD significantly upped the ante in their ongoing price war with Intel. Prices on AMD’s entire Athlon 64 lineup were slashed; CPUs ranging from the Sempron 3000+ all the way up to the Athlon 64 FX-74 were affected. As a result of the cuts, buying a high-end dual-core CPU has never been […]
This week during Intel’s spring IDF conference in Beijing, the chip giant revealed several initiatives that it claims will give it a prominent position entering 2008. One of the most stand-out projects in the works is dubbed Geneseo, aimed at competing squarely with AMD’s Torrenza technology. Both AMD and Intel express interest in opening up […]
Last week Giuseppe Amato discussed AMD’s mobile roadmap for the next two years. Although the mobile platform roadmap in his presentation was identical to the one from the Fall 2006 AMD Analyst Day, he added some interesting details during the session. Although Amato was very scarce with details about the 65nm versions of current Turion […]
The year started off on the wrong financial foot for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), as the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based microprocessor maker posted what its CFO called a “disappointing and unacceptable” Q1 financial report.
AMD reported Q1 revenue of $1.23 billion, 30 percent down from $1.77 billion in sales for Q4 2006 and 7 percent lower than […]
Microsoft is offering a low-cost, scaled-down version of its student software in developing countries to help billions of poor people access computer technology, the company said Thursday. A Student Innovation Suite including Windows XP, Office, and Learning Essentials 2.0 will be sold to “qualifying governments” beginning later this year for three US dollars a unit. […]
AMD has named the rest of its upcoming ATI Radeon DirectX 10 product lineup. The new DirectX 10 product family received the ATI Radeon HD 2000-series moniker. For the new product generation, AMD has tagged HD to the product name to designate the entire lineup’s Avivo HD technology. AMD has also removed the X-prefix on […]
Ed. Chip firm AMD is continuing to talk up its forthcoming K10 “Barcelona” microprocessor, and to insist it will beat the competition hands down.
Guiseppe Amato, AMD’s European technical director, said: “Barcelona is an architecture that must be faster.” He said that people wanting to move to the redesigned K10 core using Socket F would only […]
R600XT will be officially known as Radeon HD 2900 XT when it launches in May. It seems that R600XT will be available first followed the XTX. According to DailyTech, the Radeon HD 2900 series features 320 stream processors and supports 128-bit HDR rendering, 24xAA, physics processing. Other features include integrated HDMI output capabilities with 5.1 […]
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 […]