Archive for the ‘amd’ Category
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops
Although most of the attention in the increasingly-competitive CPU market has been focused on Intel and newcomer NVIDIA lately, AMD’s still in it to win it, and it looks like it’s taking some bold moves. First up, the company says over 100 laptop designs based on the new Puma mobile platform are being developed for delivery in June, over twice as many as it’s had in the past. AMD’s touting Puma’s Hybrid Graphics mode that allows the system to intelligently switch between a Radeon HD3400 and integrated graphics for max power-savings, so it’ll be interesting to see how the system stacks up against Intel’s Atom and VIA’s Isaiah — like NVIDIA , AMD seems to be betting that consumers care more about graphics than raw horsepower.
That bet might also explain why AMD’s technical director of sales and marketing Guiseppe Amato also recently told CustomPC that its next generation of chips will look “completely different” than Phenom, and that it will be capable of solving “problems that today we think can never be addressed by hardware.” That’s a pretty bold claim — the whole processor market is getting pretty boastful lately, have you noticed? — but we’re at a loss to explain what it means. Any ideas?
Read - 100 laptops to be based on Puma at launchRead - AMD’s next CPU architecture will be completely different
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops
AMD headquarters, as it turns out that the chip maker’s quad-core Phenom processors are incompatible with some popular motherboard chipsets. Due to a thermal frequency mismatch, the 125-watt 9750 and 9850 CPUs don’t play well with 780G-based mobos — which are designed for AMD’s less power-hungry 9600 and 9550 processors. Instead, AMD warns that its quad-core processors should be paired with the company’s 790 chipset. Spokesman Jake Whitman blamed PC makers, stating that, “They’ve taken an enthusiast-class quad-core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard.” Confused yet? Exactly.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops
If your interest in processor speeds doesn’t extend much beyond “is it fast?” then these juicy tidbits likely aren’t for you. That said, AMD is certainly getting excited about its upcoming Barcelona successor: the 45nm Shanghai . The main points of interest out of the gate are HyperTransport 3.0, which was nixed late in the game on Barcelona, and six cores, which are meant to pit the chip up against Intel’s upcoming six-core Dunnington chip. Where things get really exciting is a few months after Shanghai’s late 2008 debut, when AMD plans do release a twin-die version, with 12 cores of happiness connected by HyperTransport 3.0. What does all that mean? Beats us, but we hope it’s fast.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Alienware via PC Mag ]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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Alienware has injected life into the Aurora line with a new gaming rig fitted with quad-core AMD Phenom 9850 processors, your choice of ATI Radeon 3870 X2, HD3850, or HD3870 graphics cards (single or CrossFire configuration), up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR2, and tons of HDD space. Naturally, tricking this thing out with all of the higher-end options is going to make the price ridiculous in a hurry, but a $999 base is about as good as it will get for an Alienware. [
The age-old battle between Intel and AMD is resurrected every year as the two duke it out for control of your computer. Back in the day, when I was broke and into building PCs, I often opted for AMD because of budget restrictions. After I graduated, performance was the objective which, at the time, meant a switch to Intel was in order. I took a case by case approach to the debate between Intel and AMD, but many PC builders out there have fierce loyalties to one side or the other despite their ups and downs. So the question is: Do you prefer AMD or Intel processors?