AMD: Still in the Game

It always seems that the worse a company does, the more information it divulges. We saw this behavior with Intel at the end of the Pentium 4 era, and we’re definitely seeing it now with AMD. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it sure makes the industry a lot more exciting to talk about.Today’s disclosures [...]

AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350: Mainstream X2s with 45W TDP

Those hoping for nail biting, teeth clenching battles should apply elsewhere – the CPU war these days is a one horse race. If reports out of Taiwan are to be believed, initial performance results from AMD’s Barcelona fail to impress and we’ve got at least a quarter before the race can even potentially get competitive. [...]

AMD’s Next-Generation Mobile Architecture Revealed: Griffin

Several years ago Intel discovered surprisingly enough that its NetBurst architecture was not very good for the mobile space.  As wonderful as the idea of battery powered space heaters was, Intel quickly discovered that to build the perfect mobile platform you had to start from scratch and design a CPU that was built for the [...]

AMD Names Athlon’s Successor: Phenom

We’ve been calling it Barcelona or Agena for several months now, but AMD has finally named its next-generation desktop processors; and the new name is Phenom. Not quite as odd sounding as the Athlon was when it was launched, but still very much an AMD product name. The new AMD line up is as follows: [...]

AMD – The Road Ahead

A quiet AMD isn’t a good AMD, but unfortunately it’s the AMD we’ve been left with ever since Intel started becoming more competitive. In fact, the more Intel changed for the better, the more it seemed AMD changed for the worse. Intel started bringing out better product, talking more about its plans for the future, [...]

AMD Unveils New-Generation Graphics Product Lineup

The head of ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, Rick Bergman, said during a meeting with financial analysts late last week that the company plans to refresh its graphics chip lineup early next year with at least three new product offerings. Unfortunately for AMD, which needs to return to profitability, the bulk of [...]

ATI CrossFire Technology Remains Open. ATI CrossFireX to Get AMD, Intel, Others’ Chipsets Support

ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, said on Thursday that it remained committed to its open eco-system strategy with multi-GPU technology. In fact,  every company, including Intel Corp., might get the ability to use the “ATI CrossFire” logotype to push their platforms, provided that they had passed a validation process.   “We remain [...]

AMD Readies “Black Edition” Phenom Processor, Phenom FX May Face Further Delay.

Advanced Micro Devices said at a presentation of its new platform in Japan that although it will not be able to offer any high-end AMD Phenom FX processors for many months from now, it will unveil “Black Edition” of its AMD Phenom 9600 chip that will allow easy overclocking capabilities already in December. AMD Phenom [...]

AMD Projects Impairment Charge Due to Weak Graphics, Multimedia Business Performance.

Just one day ahead of its meeting with financial analysts Advanced Micro Devices said that the value it paid for graphics and multimedia chip designer ATI Technologies last year was too high and the actual revenues the company gets and will be able to obtain from its graphics and multimedia businesses are below expectations. AMD: [...]