Tag Archive for 'amd'
Intel has been on the innovative side recently nailing AMD and other competitors with its new core micro-architecture lineup. It has not stop Intel from bagging more market share on other spaces like the embedded CPU market. By packing both North Bridge and South Bridge into a single chip, Intel manage to produce a new [...]
Some gamers are still holding back on upgrading to Vista due to the unknown performance effects caused by un-optimized drivers, but there some who plunge right into Vista upgrade galore like me. Ryan from PCPer has run some test on Vista under gaming environment to figure out how well NVIDIA and ATI video cards scale [...]
Analysts have been predicting that this would happen forever, but most didn’t assume that it would happen so fast. I’m speaking, of course, of AMD’s “retiring” of the ATI brand after the two companies successfully combined. The first hint comes when you try to visit ATI’s website; not only is the ATI logo gone, but [...]
As Dell starting to sell AMD desktops and Servers, it just a matter of time when AMD goes under Dell’s laptop chassis. Dell is planning to release AMD based laptops at the end of this month, a 15.4-inch laptop follow by 17-inch model early next year. The new lineup will be priced under $500. According [...]
For years, Dell has been exclusively selling PC with Intel Inside logo on it, and only recently Dell is starting to sell AMD based system. After its purchase of Alienware, Dell is starting to push AMD system on their PC and notebooks lineup. To make matter more intresting, Dell has decided not to promote Intel’s [...]
Hector Ruiz, the CEO of AMD was speaking out about AMD chip usage on Apple computers. He suggested that Apple wouldn’t want to be trap by Intel like other companies has. He claimed Intel is also responsible for slowing down the PC industry. AMD have very good chips such as X2 and Opteron, but as [...]
In Medieval times, forces laying siege to a city would catapult rotting horse carcasses over the city walls. Anybody splashed with this equine warfare would be pretty much guaranteed of dying. Well, Philips must be hoping its competitors will meet a similar fate when it drops its slinky LX1000 Media Centre PC, a £999 slice [...]
AMD is not sitting idle while Intel is having all the buzz in the world. After acquiring ATI, AMD plans to introduce a new notebook platform called “Yokohama” by the end of this year. Yokohama will be based on Turion 64 X2 and the upcoming RS690, RS690DC, and RS790M chipsets. One of the great features [...]
Intel has been on fire for the past couple months, starting with Woodcrest released, then Core 2 Duo (Conroe) and recently Core 2 Duo for mobile (Merom). Keeping up with its momentum Intel plans to get their Quad-core CPUs out for the holiday season by November this year. It was originally planned to be release [...]
The earlier rumors that Dell has plans to use AMD turns out to be true. Dell officially announced that it would be building AMD processors into its “Dimension” desktop computers and 2P server products. Dell’s Chief executive Kevin Rollins hinted that AMD will not only fill a gap in their portfolio, but a [...]
