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AMD releases Catalyst 11.7 final, 11.8 preview drivers
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Sticking firm to its monthly release schedule, AMD has published the next complete build of its Catalyst driver suite along with a complimentary preview version. Catalyst 11.7 seems primarily focused on improving stability, carrying more than a dozen bug fixes for Windows 7 but offers few if any performance improvements. Conversely, the Catalyst 11.8 preview pledges speed gains in some of today's popular PC games.
The latest release resolves all known issues that cause mouse cursor lag, a problem that caused system hangs when using Catalyst 11.6 with certain HDMI and DP displays, glitches with PowerDVD 10 and WinDVD (which is now supported by AMD's SteadyVideo technology). SteadyVideo was ad...
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AMD Bulldozer FX-Series Processor Lineup Detailed
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According to the latest rumors Bulldozer FX series processors are now being launched in October, a new processor lineup map has just surfaced on what to expect though. There seems to be a good seven processors launched.
Of them you'll see three eight-core chip models and two six-core and two quad-core processors with TDP's ranging from 95W to 125W.
The fastest of these upcoming chips is called the FX-8150 and it sports a base frequency of 3.6GHz, a maximum Turbo frequency of 4.2GHz, 8MB of Level 2 cache memory, and a TDP of 125W.
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Radeon HD 7000 Series PCI-Express 3.0 Compliant
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Soon you will see a new wave of motherboards getting PCIE 3.0 support but well, there's nothing out there utilizing all that extra bandwith and power spec. Well, good news, AMD's next generation of graphics processors (HD 7000 series) reportedly will be PCI-Express Generation 3 compliant. The desktop discrete graphics cards will feature PCI-Express 3.0 x16 bus interfaces, and will be fully backwards-compatible with older versions of the bus, including Gen 1 and Gen 2.
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AMD Expected to Regain Market Share
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IHS iSuppli said that Intel climbed to a processor market share of 82.6% in Q1 (up 2.0 points from Q1 2010), while AMD dropped to 10.1% from 11.8%.
However, Forbes predicts that AMD's notebook processors are good enough to take share from Intel - the publication's forecasts estimates that the uptick could be up to six points in the notebook market and up to eight points in servers. There may also be gains in the desktop market, but since we know that desktop shipments are declining anyway, those share gains may not matter much.
AMD has fueled high expectations among analysts that its new architecture will generate strong processor shipments. There is now clear pressure for AMD to deliver, ev...
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AMD shows off 32-core Bulldozer server
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At AMD's ISC stand one could find several 2U and 4U servers built with older Opteron chips, but it was a 1U pizza box server made by Supermicro that housed two 16-core Bulldozer chips running live demonstrations of POVRay. This is the first time that AMD has publicly displayed its next generation Opteron processor, codenamed Bulldozer.
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AMD resigns from industry group associated with BAPCo and won't endorse SYSmark 2012
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AMD has announced today that it has separated from the industry group BAPCo. AMD has also announced that it will not endorse the SYSMark 2012 benchmark suite. SYSmark is a benchmarking program that is often used by publications in print and online to test the performance of computer system. The benchmark is intended to be an open representation of performance for computers that is comparable between brands to show the performance of one brand compared to another.
AMD notes that it will only endorse benchmarks that are based on real-world computing modes and software applications that provide useful information for the people using the application. AMD also noted that it thinks all benchmarks...
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Tilera takes aim at Intel and AMD with 100-core chip
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Tilera on Tuesday announced a new general-purpose CPU with 100 processing cores, which the company hopes will provide headway into a server market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
The low-power 100-core TileGX-3100 chip was co-developed with "leading cloud companies" with the aim of installing it in servers that run database applications and handle large volumes of Internet transactions, the company said. A Tilera spokeswoman declined to name the cloud companies that helped co-develop the chip, saying announcements would be made over time.
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NVIDIA Makes SLI Support on AMD Platform Official with New BETA GeForce Driver
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NVIDIA today released its latest version of the GeForce software suite, version 275.50 BETA. With this release, NVIDIA enables SLI support on AMD socket AM3+ platform. The driver enables SLI multi-GPU technology certified AMD 990FX, AMD 990X, and AMD 970 motherboards. Keep in mind, not every AMD 9-series chipset-based motherboard will run SLI, only certified ones, just like not every Intel 5-series and 6-series chipset based motherboard features SLI. Look for the SLI logo when buying the motherboard.
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AMD: 'We're blowing by our competition'
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"Gone are the days of running hot," proclaims Rick Bergman, head of AMD's products group. It's undoubtedly a soundbite but he's right about one thing – power frugality and battery longevity is the new...
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AMD Catalyst 11.6 WHQL Driver Suite Released
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AMD Catalyst received its monthly major update with version 11.6 WHQL. The driver isn't posted on AMD Game website, but leaked to the media. For the same reason, we don't have its release notes docume...
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AMD FX high-end processors and platforms surface at E3
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AMD and Intel have fought for the dollars of the computer enthusiast and gamers for a long time. It used to be years ago that the gamer leaned towards the AMD processors because AMD had faster and mor...
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AMD confirms tablet-friendly Z-series APU, next-gen Trinity APU for bigger devices
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AMD likes to take its time before stepping inside the ring, but it's turned up at Computex with its gown off and mouthguard in. Its much-leaked Z-series Fusion APU (aka "Desna") for tablet devices is ...
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AMD confirms tablet plans with Desna chip
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Advanced Micro Devices, Intel’s main competitor in processors, has confirmed its plans to enter the tablet market by launching its own processor for tablets. AMD codenamed the chip lineup “Z-series” w...
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AMD Ships Five Million Fusion Chips, Claims to be Officially Sold Out
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Apple might want us to believe the Netbook is dead, but if sales of AMD’s all new Fusion series are any indication, the market is indeed alive and well. AMD claims it has shipped five million units of...
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AMD releases two new FirePro cards
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AMD today introduced the newest generation of professional graphics cards – AMD FirePro V5900 and AMD FirePro V7900 – more than doubling performance of competitive offerings in key professional market...
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