News tagged ‘amd’
Monday, 22 Apr 2013
AMD Reclaims Former CTO of Graphics Product Group, Raja Koduri
AMD revealed its former CTO of Graphics Product Group, Mr. Raja Koduri has rejoined its ranks after he left Apple. He will lead engineering efforts in visual computing, reporting to CTO Mark Papermaster, another former Apple executive.
Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013
AMD Recruits Former Apple and Qualcomm Senior Engineers
AMD may be trying to expand beyond PC chips with the hiring of two senior engineers, Charlie Matar, previously senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, and Wayne Meretsky, previously technical lead for OS X at Apple.
Thursday, 6 Dec 2012
AMD Radeon HD 8990 Slated for Launch Next Year?
The dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 8990 is rumored to be released in the second quarter of 2013, according to information obtained by the Spanish website, Bit Dreams. They also claimed to have information on the performance and specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs.
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012
MSI Launches Windows 8 GX 60 Notebook Equipped with AMD Trinity APU, Radeon HD 7970M
MSI has announced the launch of the GX60, a 15-inch AMD-powered gaming notebook running on Windows 8 OS and armed with an AMD Trinity A10 quad-core processor along with an AMD Radeon HD 7970M GPU.
Thursday, 13 Sep 2012
AMD's SeaMicro Announces New Servers with AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon CPUs
AMD's SeaMicro has just launched its new SM15000 servers which feature AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon CPUs. They are aimed squarely at the cloud computing market. These products updates to its server platform are its first since being acquired by AMD earlier this year.
Monday, 28 May 2012
AMD Add-in Manufacturers Supposedly Working on Radeon HD 7970 X2
AMD add-in partners are rumored to be working on a customized Radeon HD 7970 X2 graphics card which will feature two 28nm Tahiti GPUs; their efforts are reportedly sanctioned by AMD.
Friday, 25 May 2012
AMD Rumored to Begin Production of Next-Gen FX CPUs This Q3
Rumors are that AMD is set to produce its second generation FX CPUs based on "Piledriver" architecture. The new architecture is purported to deliver a performance boost of 15 percent over the Bulldozer-based CPUs, a 5 percent improvement over its earlier estimated performance boost.
Friday, 27 Apr 2012
Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 jokerCard Announced
Equipped with CoolStream High Performance Cooling technology, users can experience stunning visuals and realistic multi-player gaming with DiRT Showdown, which is included in this bundle.
Thursday, 26 Apr 2012
AMD Cuts Price of Flagship 8-core FX-8150
According to Fudzilla, AMD has cut the price of its flagship Bulldozer CPU, the FX-8150, from ~S$360 (219 European Euros) to ~S$296 (180 European Euros). This 22% price discount will put the FX-8150 at the same price as that of a mid-range quad-core i5 desktop Ivy Bridge processor.
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012
AMD Dropping Monthly Support for Older Radeon Graphics Cards
AMD confirms that it is dropping monthly support for its older DirectX10 Radeon graphics cards.