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AMD related Chips and Hardware
All good things come to an end, and for AMD fans, the end is nigh for the Sunnyvale chip designer’s 45nm SOI (Silicon On Insulator) processors, which will have reached end of life (EOL) status by December 2012. Among the list of soon-to-be deceased chi…
Perhaps taking advantage of the recent Sandy Bridge chipset fiasco, AMD has gone and reduced the price of several Phenom processors by up to $30, depending on the chip, Fudzilla reports.
Starting with the quad-core processors, AMD shaved $10 from its P…
AMD’s latest Catalyst 11.1 driver suite introduces a handful of big performance gains, including up to 17 percent in Left 4 Dead 2 on Radeon HD 6800 series cards in both single and CrossFire configurations with AF and AA disabled, and up to 12 percent …
AMD wants you to know that you can use its new Fusion APUs without losing sleep at night worrying about Mother Nature. The reason? AMD’s Fusion CPUs offer up to a 40 percent smaller carbon footprint compared to previous generation products, the chip ma…
Market research firm iSuppli declared a “microprocessor stalemate” between Intel and AMD, neither of which was able to wrestle any significant share from the other in the third quarter.
Intel’s global microprocessor share dropped ever-so-slightly from …
Barring any subsequent hotfixes, AMD graphics card owners have one last driver package to download and install before 2010 comes to a close, Catalyst 10.12.
AMD’s newest drivers add support for DivX on the Radeon HD 6800 Series of cards, support for Op…
It’s the end of an era, folks. In the coming months, AMD will retire the ATI brand, letting the ATI name ride off into the sunset after a remarkable 25-year run, presumably never to be seen again. Don’t mistake that to mean AMD is getting out of the gr…
We put the top 890FX and X58 mobos through their paces
Gordon’s freestyle technique is decent, but next time he decides to fling mobos, we want to see him do a thumber backhand, or better yet, a skip shot.
Ready to finally build your post-recession mac…