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It’s no secret that AMD has been struggling lately. They have posted a loss for the third straight quarter. While some of those losses can be attributed to the acquisition of the ATI brand, they’ve also been steadily losing ground to rival Intel. Despite these negatives, the company has assured everyone that they’re still in [...]
If you’re scouring the net looking for a cheap single-core CPU, your chances of finding one just got harder. AMD has put all of their single-core Athlon and Sempron processors on end-of-life status as of today. Fortunately, they are also dropping prices on their dual-core offerings.
AMD has gone ahead and cut the Athlon 64 X2 [...]
If you’re waiting for AMD’s answer to Intel’s quad core chips, you won’t have to wait much longer. AMD announced recently that their new quad core “Barcelona” chips will be shipping in August.
They will be releasing low power versions of their new processors along side their standard power chips. The new Barcelona CPUs will be [...]
If you have been waiting for Toshiba to start shipping their AMD-based notebooks, the wait is over. They have begun shipping the first of these today.
CPUs are not the only chip that starting to get into 65nm node manufacturing process. nVidia is preparing to get into 65nm GPU manufacturing by fall 2007. nVidia uses 80nm half-node process on its current mainstream and low end GPUs.
If you’ve been waiting for another Dual card from Sapphire, wait no more. They are showing off their HD 2600 Dual at Computex 2007 this week.
If you’re looking for the least power-hungry processor that you can get your hands on, the new AMD Sempron 2100+ might not be a bad choice.
Despite AMD’s lacking sales recently, more manufacturers are turning to them to power their PCs. Dell was one of the first Intel-only companies to start offering AMD processors in their PCs last year. Now Toshiba has announced that they will also include them in upcoming notebooks.
If you are curious what’s going on over at AMD and Microsoft, check back in with us a little later in the week. I’ll be attending the AMD/Microsoft Tech Tour in Chicago on Wednesday.
AMD held a press event yesterday to demonstrate its next-generation processing technology. Included in the line-up were upcoming products including AMD K10 Phenom processors, RD790 chipsets and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics cards.
