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Shuttle AMD AM2+ Mini-PC Barebone Kit

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Shuttle has announced its latest small form factor barebones system for AMD AM2+ processors. The new system uses the H7 housing design and is suitable for the newest Phenom processors. Shuttle says the machine has 80channel sound with DTS Connect and Dolby Digital Live! certification.

Sound can be transmitted via an optical SPDIF out socket. Graphics for the system are via DirectX 10 compliant NVIDIA GeForce 8200 that can accelerate HD video. Outputs on the rear include a HDMI 1.3 with HDCP port. The system also has a PCI Express slot for a discrete video card. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:35:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

DreamWorks picks Intel over AMD for Chip Supply: Report

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(Reuters) - Animated-movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen chipmaker Intel Corp over previous supplier Advanced Micro Devices to supply chips and other technology for its big computer-animation operations, The Wall Street Journal said.
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Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:38:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Puma Platform for Notebooks Review

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InsideHW has posted review about Puma Platform for Notebooks.

Quote from the review: "The long waited AMD platform for notebooks under the name PUMA is finally introduced and InsideHW had a chance to test notebook based on this platform. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor Review

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TechwareLabs has published a review of the AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor.

Quote from the review: "AMD recently released several low power processors to its Quad core family, while simultaneously pushing the ceiling up a bit on their high end line with the 9950. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD 780G/780V/740G Integrated Socket AM2+ Chipsets

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Digit-Life takes a closer look at AMD 780G/780V/740G Integrated Socket AM2+ Chipsets.

Quote: "While we have already examined a few motherboards on AMD 780G, some performance matters were not covered. For example, operation in the Hybrid CrossFire mode and decoding of HD video. Read more

Posted on Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 coming in August

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AMD just released the HD 4850 and HD 4870 video cards, reports appear that the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 will be ready in August.

AMD will begin shipping reference design boards with 2GB GDDR5 memory at the end of the month reports Digitimes based on industry sources. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:31:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Toshiba Updates Select Satellite Notebooks with new Features and AMD Platforms

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Toshiba has announced that it updated some of its Satellite series notebooks with the new AMD next generation notebook platform. Models receiving upgrades include the P300D, A300D, M300D, U400D, L300D, and L350D.

All of the machines are offered with variations of the new AMD Athlon Dual core QL, Turion Dual Core RM and Turion Ultra ZM processors. The new AMD platforms offer better performance, visuals and battery life compared to previous AMD platforms. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:42:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Phenom X4 9350e and 9950 Black Edition unveiled

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AMD introdes three new quad-core Phenom X4 processors. One of the processors, the new 2.6GHz Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, is AMD's latest flagship desktop CPU. The other two, however, are somewhat surprising "green", low-power quad-cores dubbed the Phenom X4 9350e (2.0GHz) and Phenom X4 9150e (1.8GHz).

With its Black Edition branding, it should be obvious to the power user among you that the Phenom X4 9950 BE is targeted squarely at enthusiasts and overclockers. But the audience for the Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e processors is a little harder to quantify. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Review of AMD Radeon HD4850, HD4870 and HD4850 Crossfire

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MadBoxPC reviewed the new AMD Radeon HD4850, HD4870 and HD4850 Crossfire.

Quote from the review: "AMD wants to conquer the hearts of enthusiasts with graphics products that not only have excellent performance, but also a price achievable. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:10:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Says World’s Fastest Supercomputers Use Opteron’s

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AMD says that 3 of the top 5 supercomputers in the world and 7 of the top 20 supercomputers use AMD Opteron processors. AMD says that for the first time ever its processors are in use in the fastest supercomputer in the world.

AMD says that the Opteron-based Ranger supercomputer at the TACC made its first appearance on the top 500 supercomputers list with a ranking of number 4. The Ranger machine has a score of 326 teraflops. The Ranger machine is used for science research and solves problems for weather prediction and climate modeling as well as genetics and medical research. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:05:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Demos Cinema 2.0

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AMD demonstrated its Cinema 2.0 experience that it claims punches holes in the sensory barrier between cinema and games. The AMD teraflops graphics chip codenamed RV770 is at the heart of Cinema 2.0. AMD says that until this chip programmers had to decide between ultra-realistic and interactive.

AMD says that now game developers can offer the cinematic qualities and vision of top directors and still provide the interaction that gamer’s desire. AMD says the secret is the blending of complex and realistic graphics with dynamic 3D content of popular video games. Read more

Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:36:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the 1 Teraflop Barrier

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At the International Supercomputing Conference today, AMD introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250.

The AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance.
The AMD FireStream 9250 stream processor includes a second-generation double-precision floating point hardware implementation delivering more than 200 gigaflops, building on the capabilities of the earlier AMD FireStream 9170, the industry’s first GP-GPU with double-precision floating point support. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:23:42 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Announces HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition

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AMD announced yesterday a new ATI Radeon HD 3870 for Mac & PC Edition video card. The video card is optimized exclusively for Apple Mac Pro systems and features a 256-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer and 320 stream processors.

The dual DVI ports on the display can support up to two 30-inch Apple Cinema displays. The video card appears to be nothing more than a standard HD 3970 with Mac drivers included. The MSRP for the card is $219 and availability is for June. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:19:16 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Optimized Gaming Physics from AMD and Havok

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AMD and Havok announced today that they will be teaming up to investigate the implementation of physics for PC gaming using AMDs hardware. Currently over 100 developers and 300 leading game titles take advantage of the Havok physics engine.

AMD says that Havok physics scale well across its range of products like the new Phenom quad-core parts. AMD and Havok also say they will look at bringing Havok physics processing to the ATI Radeon line of graphics cards as well. Read more

Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:32:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD's upcoming 790GX Motherboards at Computex 2008

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Tweaktown reports about an early showing fo of the upcoming 790GX Motherboards at Computex 2008.

Quote: "AMD is not due to officially release its codenamed RS780D named 790GX chipset (along with SB750 chipset and AMD Overdrive Extreme overclock tweaking utility) until a little later but several companies were showing off their early design boards at Computex Taipei 2008 this week. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD ATI XGP unveiled

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Today AMD announced ATI XGP (External Graphics Platform), a new external PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 graphics platform, designed to deliver enthusiast-class desktop graphic performance and true multimedia upgradeability to notebooks.

The ATI XGP is a technology that capitalizes on PCIe 2.0 to deliver enthusiast-class graphics via a connected cable to an externally powered and cooled device.
ATI XGP delivers up to 4.0 Gbyte/s in each direction in bandwidth communication between the notebook and external graphics, whereas previous consumer level external solutions were limited in graphics bandwidth. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:31:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New AMD Notebook Platform based on AMD Turion X2 Ultra unveiled at Computex 2008

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AMD unveiled their next generation notebook platform (formerly known as Puma) at the Computex 2008 today.

The new AMD notebook platform features new AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series Graphics and industry-leading wireless for greater throughput and range. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD launches much-awaited Puma Notebook Chip Line

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By Duncan Martell

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp's main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world's biggest chip maker.
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Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:01:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Launches New Quad-Core Opteron's

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AMD announced today that it has launched new quad-core Opteron processors for use in servers and workstations. AMD launched a total of three new quad-core Opteron 1300 series processors for single socket servers and workstations.

The processors include the Opteron 1352 running 2.1 GHz, 1354 at 2.2GHz and the 1356 at 2.3 GHz. AMD says the processors are aimed at small and mid-market companies and fit into the same socket and thermal requirements as the previous AMD Opteron 1000 processors. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:19:27 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Vigor Gaming Launches AMD GAME! Certified Force Recon SP

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Vigor Gaming has announced a new gaming PC that is branded with the new AMD GAME! certification designed to help make it easier for gamers to choose gaming PCs that meet their needs. The Force Recon SP is the first Vigor gaming machine that is AMD GAME! branded.

The Force Recon SP gaming machines with minimum specs start at about $1845 and use Athlon X2 5600+ processors and dual ATI HD 3650 graphics. The Force Recon SP under the AMD GAME! Ultra configuration will retail for about $2733 and feature a Phenom 9850 CPU, Radeon HD 3870 graphics and 2Gb of RAM. Read more

Posted on Fri, 30 May 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD announces GDDR5 ATI Radeon Graphics Cards

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Today AMD announced the first commercial implementation of GDDR5 (Graphics Double Data Rate, version 5) memory in its forthcoming next generation of ATI Radeon graphics cards.

The GPU performance in today's graphics cards is limited by the rate at which data can be moved on and off the graphics chip, which in turn is limited by the memory interface width and die size.
The higher data rates supported by GDDR5 is up to 5x that of GDDR3 and 4x that of GDDR4. Read more