A community portal about Advanced Micro Devices with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second...
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A community portal about Advanced Micro Devices with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second-largest supplier of x86 -compatible processors, and was once a leading supplier of non-volatile flash memory. It was founded in 1969 by a group of former executives from Fairchild Semiconductor, including Jerry Sanders, III. AMD's current Chairman and CEO is Dr. Hector Ruiz. The current president and Chief Operating Officer is Dirk Meyer.
In a clear sign that Advanced Micro Devices is not giving up the fight against Intel’s Core i7 processors dubbed as the “Nehalem”, the company announced that their “Shanghai” processor will be available in the 4th quarter of this year.
Shanghai is the first AMD processor made using the 45nm manufacturing process, which translates to a higher clock speeds while consuming less power. Shanghai will have 6MB of L3 cache and will support 800MHz DDR2 memory. According to AMD, Shanghai chips will... Read Full Story
Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slump.
Intel, the world’s largest computer chip maker, showed off the new blueprint, known as a microarchitecture, for its chips at a developers conference in San Francisco.
Though some of the details were already known, the design’s formal unveiling represented... Read Full Story
AP - Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slump.
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Fusion will be AMD’s first CPU+GPU on one chip and the first Fusion processor is code-named Shrike. The chip will consist of dual core Phenom CPU and ATI RV800 GPU core. The chip will be DirectX 10.1 compliant and will use 40nm production technology. It will be launched by second half of 2009. In 2010 AMD plans to shrink the size further by using 32nm processor technology. According to TG Daily 32nm Shrike chip is a stopgap before the next generation CPU core, code-named “Bulldozer” is... Read Full Story
DreamWorks Animation has announced that it’s converting exclusively to Intel for the supply of microprocessing equipment in the making of Animation movies.
This will replace the current supplier Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD signed a three-year deal back in 2005 and as this is coming to an end, DreamWorks Animation said it “requires more computing power”.
Starting in 2009, DreamWorks will be making all its movies in stereoscopic 3-D, this is one reason they have converted exclusively to... Read Full Story
