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Advanced Micro Devices is offering prizes to drum up more interest ahead of this month’s launch of its 12-core server chip, as rival Intel also has server-chip launch plans. AMD will award prizes valued at US$8,189 to the person who best describes in an essay, video or blog post how to use 48 cores in [...]
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AMD Tries to Draw Intel Into Chip Battle
March 5th, 2010 
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Lenovo Launches Desktop PC With AMD Chips
January 15th, 2010 admin
Lenovo has extended its use of Advanced Micro Devices processors in PCs with the launch of a new desktop Thursday. The PC maker announced the ThinkCentre A63 desktop, which runs on a choice of AMD’s Sempron, Athlon or Phenom processors. The desktop, targeted at small and medium-size businesses, is priced starting at US$329. The company earlier [...]
AMD Ships Low-power Six-core Opteron Chip
August 31st, 2009 admin Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced a low-power variant of its six-core Opteron server chip, which is codenamed Istanbul. The Opteron 2419 EE draws up to 40 watts of power, which almost equals the lowest power drawn by AMD’s existing quad-core line of Opteron server chips codenamed Shanghai. The new chip provides 30 [...]
AMD Launches 3.4-GHz Phenom II X4 965 CPU
August 13th, 2009 admin The newest version of AMD’s Phenom II processor won’t cost you a penny extra over what you’d currently pay for the company’s top-of-the-line CPU, the $245, 3.2-GHz Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor. Consider the company’s newest and fastest-ever CPU a free upgrade of-sorts–if you ignore the slight drop in [...]
AMD Set to Release DirectX 11 Graphics Card
August 7th, 2009 admin Advanced Micro Devices will soon launch a graphics card that supports Microsoft’s DirectX 11, which aims to make graphics in Windows 7 seem smoother and more realistic. The release of AMD’s first DirectX 11 graphics card would coincide with the launch of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7, AMD spokesman John Taylor said on [...]
AMD Chipset Improves Integrated Graphics
August 4th, 2009 admin Advanced Micro Devices introduced a new chipset on Monday with an integrated graphics core that provides a better high-definition video experience compared to earlier chipsets, the company said. AMD’s 785G chipset provides better raw graphics performance than its predecessor, the 780G, and has advanced HD video decoding features built into the integrated [...]
AMD Chases New Low-power Chips
July 18th, 2009 admin Advanced Micro Devices is getting ready to put Neo chips in low-power desktop products, upping the ante in its battle with rival Intel, which offers processors for similar devices. AMD originally designed Neo for products like ultrathin laptops, thin and light laptops that can deliver full functionality at affordable prices. However the [...]
AMD Slowly Evolves With Netbook Demand
July 6th, 2009 admin Despite Advanced Micro Devices’ historical stance that it has no interest in the netbook space, PC makers continue to build the chip maker’s processors into low-cost PCs. Just two weeks after Acer’s Gateway unit announced an AMD-based netbook, another PC maker on Monday introduced a netbook with a low-power processor from AMD. [...]
