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GPU bragging rights now belong to Sapphire, which claims its new HD 7970 6GB Toxic Edition graphics card features the highest clockspeeds of any consumer grade videocard on the planet. It also has a massive 6GB frame buffer, which is twice as big as yo…
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…
If you’ve been following the PC scene for awhile, you may recall Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) beating Intel to the punch (if only by a hair) in getting a 1GHz CPU (an Athlon “Thunderbird”) into the hands of consumers back in 2000. Here we are more than…
IDC has recently released a market study that is reporting on the health of the microprocessor market. No huge surprises for the second quarter and the most pertinent news is that integrated graphics processors now account for 60% of the total. For major manufacturers, Intel maintains its absolute hegemony as producer of CPU, with 79.3% [...]
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AMD’s dual GPU cards have come a long way in the past several years. The original Radeon HD 3870 was noisy, ran hot and didn’t always perform up to snuff. Since then, AMD’s Cata…
Citing sources from upstream players, DigiTimes says Acer expects 3-4 percent of its total notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2011 will be affected by Intel’s buggy 6-series chipset. Hewlett-Packard expects to be hit a little harder, noting int…
Do you think it’s too early to talk about Sandy Bridge’s successor? Well, Intel might have you talking about its Ivy Bridge processors as early as Computex Taipei 2011 (May 31 to June 4). According to a Digitimes report, which in turn cites a Chine…
The VAIO YB series of AMD Fusion-powered notebooks that Sony showcased at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are here. The VAIO YB series is certainly not the first on the market with AMD’s Fusion Zacate chips, but Sony has still m…