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AMD Catalyst 11.1 Drivers Now Available for Download

January 28, 2011
AMD Catalyst 11.1 Drivers Now Available for Download

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 …

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AMD Says Fusion APUs are Good for the Earth!

January 27, 2011
AMD Says Fusion APUs are Good for the Earth!

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…

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Take a Peek at AMD’s Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990

January 26, 2011
Take a Peek at AMD’s Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990

AMD was forced to relinquish its single-GPU performance crown when Nvidia launched its GeForce GTX 580 videocard, but still retained bragging rights for having the fastest single videocard on the planet, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970. Meet the successor …

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AMD Confirms New Variant of HD 6900 Series

January 25, 2011
AMD Confirms New Variant of HD 6900 Series

It looks like the previous rumors were true and there will indeed be a 1GB of version of AMD’s Radeon HD 6950 graphics card. According to HardOCP, here’s what AMD had to say on the matter:
“When we launched the AMD Radeon HD 6900 series in December, AM…

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AMD Ships Over 1 Million Fusion APUs & 35 Million DX11 Cards

January 23, 2011
AMD Ships Over 1 Million Fusion APUs & 35 Million DX11 Cards

AMD’s interim CEO Thomas Seifert appeared to be enjoying his position as top dog on Friday when he reported a whopping $1.65 billion in revenue, and over $375 million in net income. In addition to the unusually strong financial numbers, he also repo…

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AMD Closes Out 2010 with $6.49 Billion in Revenue

January 21, 2011
AMD Closes Out 2010 with $6.49 Billion in Revenue

Overall one would have to say it was a fairly good year for AMD, who despite still trailing Intel for the performance crown, still managed to post $6.49 billion in revenue for the year ended December 25, 2010, the chip maker announced on Thursday. Reve…

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AMD Announces World’s First APU for Embedded Systems

January 19, 2011
AMD Announces World’s First APU for Embedded Systems

An APU, in case you’re not up to snuff on your tech acronyms, is an Accelerated Processing Unit, and today AMD announced the immediate availability of its new Embedded G-Series APU.
According to AMD, this is the world’s first and only APU for embedded …

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AMD Reportedly Confirms 1GB Radeon HD 6950

January 19, 2011
AMD Reportedly Confirms 1GB Radeon HD 6950

Let’s start with the good news. For you penny pinchers, AMD apparently plans to release a Radeon HD 6950 videcoard with half the amount of RAM as the original (1GB versus 2GB). It’s a safe bet that cutting the frame buffer in half will impact performan…

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