AMD has announced that its quad-core Opteron chip (previously codenamed “Barcelona”) for servers is ready for launch. The company will start shipping the B3 version of the chip to channel and distribution partners this week.
Earlier, a 2007 release was announced for the quad-core chip but due to a bug discovered in the chip before its […]
AMD has recently launched the first dual-core Sempron processors in China in a bid to counter Intel’s dual-core Celeron product line in the entry-level market, according to sources at motherboard makers.
AMD Sempron 2100+ processors adopt a 65nm process, and have a core frequency of 1.8GHz. Pricing in the China market is set at RMB 399. […]
AMD announced that it continues to see strong demand among its commercial storage customers. There are currently more than 20 commercial storage systems available on the market today that rely on AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture. These varied platforms are available from industry-leading tier one storage system vendors including Sun, NetApp and HP, as well as […]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced the introduction and availability of ATI Radeon HD 3400 and ATI Radeon HD 3600 series, the entry-level and mainstream graphics processors in the ATI Radeon HD 3000 series.
The HD 3450, the slowest card AMD is launching, runs at 600 MHz and uses a 500-MHz DDR2 interface to memory. Fortunately, the […]
A test from an independent claimed that quad core AMD Opterons use up to 41 per cent less power than similarly configured Xeon servers.
Neal Nelson’s Benchmark Laboratory kitted up test servers using 4GB, 8GB and 16GB memory sizes.
The tests seem to show that FB-DIMMs consume more power than DDR-II modules on the AMD servers. They […]
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is warming to the idea of building a chip manufacturing plant in India, which would be a significant breakthrough for the country’s high-tech ambitions.
Several of the world’s top chip vendors, including AMD, Intel and Texas Instruments, have set up chip design facilities in India. But the country does not yet have […]
Computer processor developer AMD Far East has released what it calls its latest computing platform in Malaysia, codenamed “Spider”, incorporating the industry’s first quad-core processor.
“Spider is targeted especially at PC gamers, media and content creators as well as PC enthusiasts,” said country manager, Abby Goh, adding that AMD plans to release additional products on the […]
