AnandTech takes a gander at the Foxconn 755-A01 AMD Athlon 64 motherboard that sports the SiS 755 chipset. The board keeps up very well with the best that other board makers and chip producers have to offer which is impressive…
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This past friday AMD snuck in price reductions on a few of its server CPUs according to X-bit labs. The largest drops are seen in the high end Opteron 64-bit processor line but there’s also a small drop on a…
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The Tech Report has a review of VIA’s latest Athlon 64 chipset, the K8T800 Pro. They appear to have made some minor improvements to the HyperTransport support and PCI/AGP clock locks in preparation for AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs which are…
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AMD has launched a pair of low power Athlon 64 CPUs targeted at the laptop market according to Techweb. The chips can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit code natively, of course, and will do a better job at power usage…
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VIA plans to raise the prices on its line of chipsets starting in July according to DigiTimes. The 6-10% won’t translate into much for consumers but motherboard manufacturers that buy in bulk will feel the initial sting, although with a…
Read more The Higher Cost of the Chipset Business
Ars Technica has coverage of a research report that states AMD CPUs were in 52% of the desktop PCs sold at retail for the week ending April 24th. Is it a trend of broader AMD brand recognition or people just…
X-bit labs has it, from its sources, that AMD may delay its launch of Socket 939 64-bit CPUs. The new chips feature dual channel memory support as well as higher clock rates but 512KB of cache instead of the previous…
Read more Socket 939 May Face Slight Delay
Legion Hardware did some temperature testing with Thermaltake’s Silent Tower heatsink. The cooler is designed for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Socket A platforms. It uses six heatpipes to pull away heat to a large number of aluminum fins…
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VR-Zone took a little trip down to AMD’s fabrication plant in Singapore and has a bunch of pictures from their trip. Like most chip plant tours a lot of the areas weren’t able to be photographed so competitors can’t see…
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eWeek had a nice little chat with AMD’s Hector Ruiz covering many interesting topics covering OEMs and market opportunities to the CEO’s relationship with Michael Dell. There’s also an interesting tidbit concerning the dual core Opteron which should be showing…
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The Tech Report keeps on rollin’ with a review of VIA’s KT880 chipset, designed for AMD’s Athlon line of 32-bit processors. The chipset itself features a ton of integrated peripherals such as built-in ethernet and SerialATA with RAID support. Overall…
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