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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…
Wait a minute, didn’t AMD take the ATI brand behind the shed and give it the Old Yeller treatment? Sort of. Barring a special edition throwback or a mulligan of sorts, you won’t ever see a new graphics card in the home desktop market carrying an ATI la…
It was a disappointing fourth quarter for graphics chip makers as overall shipments failed to meet expectations, according to Jon Peddie Research. Year-on-year growth was “an unimpressive 4.3 percent,” which JPR pegged as a major bummer considering the…
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…
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 …
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…
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…