Tag Archive | "AMD"

AMD Delivers the World’s First 1 GHz Graphics Processor

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Nine Years after Launching the World’s First 1 GHz CPU, AMD is Again First to Break the Gigahertz Barrier with the Factory Overclocked, Air-Cooled ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 GPU. Building on the success of the recently launched ATI [...]

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AMD Opteron Processor Upgrade Program Drives Faster Time to Benefit in the Data Center

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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Offering partners and customers another cost-effective way to benefit from the performance and efficiency of AMD OpteronTM processor technology, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a global AMD Opteron Upgrade Program. The program includes 2000 series and 8000 series dual- and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors along with the upcoming six-core processor codenamed “Istanbul”. Channel partners and [...]

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AMD Catalyst 9.3 For Linux Brings OpenGL Composite Support

Saturday, March 28, 2009

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While the Catalyst driver for Windows was released a number of days ago, the Catalyst Linux driver was missing. It has, however, been released today. AMD’s Linux engineers ended up delaying the Catalyst 9.3 release so they could spend additional time tuning this driver, since it will be the last release that supports the R300 [...]

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Hardware Reviews & News Roundup 18/03

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Due to the large amount of news being send to my news mailbox, I have decided to sum it all up in one post. Processors AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ InsideHW AMD Athlon X2 7750 @ IXBT Memory Patriot Viper 6GB Kit DDR3 1600 CL8 Memory Review @ Technic3D Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC3-12800 6GB Memory Kit @ HardwareLogic Cases Cooler Master Sniper [...]

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Intel Notifies AMD of Cross-License Breach

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Intel Corporation today disclosed that the company has notified Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that it believes AMD has breached a 2001 patent cross-license agreement with Intel. Intel believes that Global Foundries is not a subsidiary under terms of the agreement and is therefore not licensed under the 2001 patent cross-license agreement. Intel also said the [...]

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What Goes On Within AMD’s Linux Beta Program?

Friday, March 13, 2009

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This year NVIDIA has been following the “release early, release often” mantra with it seeming like two weeks can’t even go by without seeing a new Linux driver — whether it’s a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even released [...]

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AMD Phenom II X4 Sets 3DMark06 World Record in Finland!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Team Finland strikes again setting the 3DMark06 World Record under Liquid Nitrogen cooling. This is the sequel to the acclaimed “Experiment” where Team Finland set the 3DMark05 World Record in January 2009. Dragon technology combining AMD Phenom II processors and ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics raises the bar – again. AMD platform technology codenamed “Dragon” [...]

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AMD Delivers Groundbreaking Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of the AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks, enabling exceedingly thin and light OEM designs with rich entertainment capabilities at an affordable price. Previously codenamed “Yukon,” the platform is based on the new AMD Athlon™ Neo processor, ATI Radeon™ X1250 integrated graphics and optional ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3410 [...]

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