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ARM server chips taking on Intel with 480 core clusters

Chris Davies, Mar 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft isn't the only company looking to many lower-powered chips to replace a few high-powered CPUs in modern servers; ARM's first server processor has been detailed by Calxeda, a quad-core chip squeezing up to 480 cores in a 2U chassis. According to Computer World, the new ARM processors will be based on Cortex A9 cores - the same family as used in NVIDIA's Tegra 2 - and have an onboard interconnect fabric for communication between the nodes. Read The Full Story

AMD Embedded G-Series puts Fusion APU in set-top boxes, SFF PCs, more

Chris Davies, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

AMD's Fusion-based APU may have taken a while to reach the market, but it seems the company is wasting no time taking on Intel's Atom range for low-power applications. The latest is the AMD Embedded G-Series, an x86 Bobcat core with an integrated GPU and DirectX 11 support, designed to slot into set-top boxes, SFF PCs and more. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

AMD Fusion APUs get official: DirectX 11, 1080p HD & 10hr battery life

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD has officially launched its Fusion APU series, a hybrid range of CPU/GPU chips incorporating both into a single die. Targeted at ultraportables, notebooks and netbooks, the new AMD E-Series "Zacate" and C-Series "Ontario" APUs each use the Bobcat CPU core, and AMD reckon they're capable of DirectX 11 graphics, UVD3 video acceleration, 1080p HD playback, 2D conversion to 3D and up to 10hrs battery life depending on system. Read The Full Story

Gigabyte and SOYO AMD Zacate mainboards leak

Chris Davies, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Motherboards from two manufacturers using AMD's Zacate Fusion APU have leaked, headed to low-cost desktop PC systems in 2011. Gigabyte's GA-E350V-USB3 mainboard showed up at X-bit labs, while the SOYO brand has seemingly been revived for an unnamed Zacate 'board spotted at Expreview. Both use the 1.6GHz dual-core AMD E350 CPU. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: November 26 2010

Chris Burns, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Hello all you shoppers and non-shoppers. Today, like all days surrounding a major US holiday, was a day of mixed news. Not mixed in the way of good and bad, but mixed in the way of one thing being basically nothing like the next! As I said this morning, the tablet wave is really gaining speed, quite a few of the posts today ending up being tablet or tablet related. We've got reviews of both the TV top box Logitech Revue and the Nokia C6-01 smartphone - all this and MORE on The Daily Slash! Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 26 2010

Chris Burns, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's the start of another wild, weird, and wacky day, with news coming in from Japan that Darth Vader is acting as spokesman for Android, pointing at you, demanding that you buy! If you'd like to escape his grasp, but would still love a nice drink in a Google-positive environment, you can head over to the new Android-themed bar, also in Japan. Then you're going to see a real concentration of tablet-related news. The wave has really started to condense, everyone trying to chew off a piece of the one-sided hunk market that's very much alive and wild this holiday season. Sit home instead of battling it out in the streets, stay warm, stay full of turkey, and drink lots of cider today with SlashGear Morning Wrap-up. Read The Full Story

Acer Windows 7 tablet to use AMD Bobcat APU confirm insiders

Chris Davies, Nov 25th 2010 Discuss [5]

Acer was pretty miserly with hardware details for their 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet earlier this week, but that hasn't stopped specifications being pieced together. According to manufacturing sources talking to DigiTimes, the so-far unnamed Acer slate runs AMD's C-50 Ontario APU, aka the dual-core Bobcat CPU, with integrated Radeon HD 6250 graphics. Read The Full Story

AMD Zacate teased: 18W AMD Fusion APU processor for budget PCs

Chris Davies, Sep 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD are teasing a preview of their upcoming AMD Fusion APU - codenamed Zacate - which the company promises will pull high-end media and DirectX 11 capabilities into mainstream computers. Zacate is a dual-core, 18W TDP processor with a separate on-die GPU, and while priced to suit budget notebooks and desktops is nonetheless able to stream Full HD video and delivery an accelerated browsing experience. Read The Full Story

AMD rebrand revealed: ATI ditched as consumers wise-up

Chris Davies, Aug 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has confirmed it intends to axe its separate ATI graphics card branding, telling The Tech Report that it will instead be bringing them under the AMD umbrella. Intended to accommodate the new breed of combined CPU/GPU Fusion chipsets that will kick off with the Bobcat before the end of 2010, the move also follows AMD's research which discovered potential buyers were three times more likely to pick an ATI-branded card when they were told AMD were behind it. Read The Full Story

AMD details new Bobcat and Bulldozer core designs highlights

Shane McGlaun, Aug 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has been doing better of late in the computer market with its chips starting to show up in more brands and its line of GPUs doing better in the market. The chip firm has announced details of two of its upcoming core designs dubbed Bobcat and Bulldozer. Read The Full Story

AMD Ontario ultraportable CPU set for Q4 2010 release

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD's Ontario processor for ultraportables and netbooks should see a release in Q4 2010, according to company CEO Dirk Meyer. Speaking after AMD's financial results call, which Seeking Alpha transcribed, Meyer confirmed that Ontario is now set to arrive "in the fourth quarter of this year, ahead of schedule"; the CPU couples the company's low-power Bobcat core with integrated DirectX 11 graphics. Read The Full Story

AMD preparing ‘Bobcat’ Atom rival for November announcement

Chris Davies, Jul 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

AMD isn't letting their disappointing financial performance slow them down; fresh CEO Dirk Meyer has revealed that the company is preparing to reveal their rival to Intel's Atom CPU in November. The chip, which has been codenamed 'Bobcat', will have a 1GHz clock speed, 128KB of L1 cache and 256KB of L2 cache, together with an on-board memory controller for 400MHz DDR2 RAM. Read The Full Story