With Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long-chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.
After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mind-share woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, […]
AMD today released six new 45 Watt AMD Athlon and Sempron processors. This is the company’s third silent launch this year.
In addition to the new chips, AMD today also implemented new price cuts, further slashing the prices of its Athlon chips. The new chips and price cuts are most likely the final product releases and […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]