Phoronix has the details on AMD’s opening up of its graphics chip specs. The measure may allow for better drivers for their graphics chip lineup improving compatibility and performance as well as stability. A nice gesture, now it’s up to…
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ATI(AMD) has released new Catalyst drivers for its line of graphics cards bringing them up to version 7.9. The drivers tout a number of performance improvements for their 2400/2600 series of cards and a new chromatic adjust option for the…
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AnandTech has an early look at the AMD Barcelona quad core chips. They’ve got a desktop bound Phenom chip and server oriented Opteron quad core(s) on their test bed and from the early results performance is looking good in many…
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DigiTimes writes of AMD’s plans to tap TSMC for production of the graphics core portion of its Fusion chips. The platform will initially see a CPU and GPU sharing the same socket on a chip while future versions will combine…
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HardOCP has quite a bit of information for everyone coming straight out of AMD’s Analyst Day. To start it off they have information on AMD’s direction in both CPU and GPU technology which includes their Fusion efforts. To cap things…
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TheTechLounge has a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 notebook. The performance-seeker oriented notebook comes equipped with a 2.4GHz AMD dual-core mobile Turion, two Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS graphics cards in SLI, and two 7200RPM notebook drives in a RAID-0…
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DailyTech has the story on AMDs demonstration of a Quad-core CPU running at 3GHz. Its Phenom chip has had a number of setbacks in the clock-rate race but this demo (which happens to run with three HD2900XT cards) may show…
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DigiTimes writes of VIA’s next set of CPUs set to debut in 2008. The “Isaiah” core will be 64bit capable, manufactured with a 65nm process, supports a 1333MHz front side bus and touts a larger 1MB cache. It might not…
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DigiTimes has a small bit of info from a JPMorgan report detailing a possible AMD deal with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for Fusion chip production. AMD’s Fusion platform is set to introduce a number of different cores into the…
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Hardware Upgrade has an interview with AMD’s sales and marketing director, Giuseppe Amato, covering all manner of projects and the future AMD is working towards. Some interesting talk of the GPGPU and their Fusion approach which might just see the…
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DailyTech has quite a bit of information on AMD’s second helping of “Star” core CPUs. The chips will be hitting almost every mark from single-core up to quad cores with a quick shift to 45nm expected in the second half…
