January 30th, 2010
Both Intel and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) are said to be working on the release of their six core offerings. In the intensely competitive chip market, Intel seems to be taking the first move with its 6 core CPU expected to hit the markets by March end (Intel 6 core lineup is referred as Gulftown). According to Digitimes the fist Intel chip would be Core i7-980X costing $1000 upwards.
On the other hand AMD is expected to be a little late with its six-core offering and would come out with the Phenom II X6 1075T, 1055T and 1035T (all three built on 45nm process) in May. This is expected to come along with the quad-core Phenom II X4 960T. The AMD six-core processors are built on the Thuban architecture, this brings 3MB of L2 cache and 6MB of L3 cache – Exciting!
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November 12th, 2009
In what is being called a ‘new era’ in the chip industry, Intel and AMD have settled their court cases, antitrust proceedings and patent disputes with the latter getting $1.25 billion along with several other agreements. For years Intel and AMD have been fighting each other in courtrooms over several issues and the bad blood was such that AMD had also launched a website in 2007, apparently to tell people about its proceedings against Intel. Intel was also fined $1.45 bln by the European Union earlier this year for illegal sales tactics. However the settlement today is certainly a win win for both parties and certainly a good sign for the consumers and the chip industry. (more…)
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May 19th, 2009
AMD has crossed the 1Gz barrier for the graphics card with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4890. The card uses the advanced GDDR5 memory and 1Gz clock speed and delivers 1.6 TeraFLOPs of Computer Power.
The 1Gz graphics card provides much better gaming experience with the support for the latest gaming physics including the OpenCL. HD 4890 uses an air-cooling system and gives an amazing gaming experience with the support for all the latest games.
via [Enterpriser]
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May 13th, 2009
European Union has ruled against Intel slapping them with a fine of $1.45 billion. The fine comes as a result of Intel’s strategy to kill the competition (i.e. AMD) by adopting illegal sale tactics.
While Intel powers over 80% of PCs across the globe, AMD is the only capable competitor. Intel offered illegal rebates to vendors for purchasing less of rival company chips or avoiding them completely; thus killing the competition illegally to strengthen its monopoly. The penalty on Intel is the highest ever charged by the EU followed by 896 million euro penalty that was awarded to Microsoft last year.
Way back in August 2007 we had seen an entire online campaign by AMD to educate consumers about Intel’s illegal practices. Guess they got what they were looking for.
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August 13th, 2008
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 is said to be the fastest Graphics Card ever. Costing $550 approx, this card produces 2.4 teraFLOPS of power; combining two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs into one card backed by a 2GB onboard memory!
Sometimes I really doubt if these every adding list of Graphic Cards is worth it at all? If I upgraded everytime something new came, I would have spent more on the card than the entire PC!
Via G4TV
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December 19th, 2007
On December 19, 2007, AMD released a new AMD Phenom? 9600 Black Edition quad-core processor with Clock Multiplier Control for tunable performance. The newest Black Edition processor can improve platform performance by unlocking the potential of AMD OverDrive?? the industry?s most powerful Windows-based performance tuning utility.
AMD has unveiled the AMD platform codenamed ?Spider,? combining next-generation AMD Phenom? quad-core processors, ATI Radeon? HD 3800 series graphics and AMD 7-series chipsets to deliver accelerated computing for the Ultimate Visual Experience?. The platform can deliver upgradeability and customization for scalable enthusiast performance, leading-edge performance and bandwidth to deliver next-generation HD experiences, and industry-leading platform performance-per-watt for flexibility and headroom.
Read the press release here with video
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August 8th, 2007
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) has launched a website titled “AMD Break Free” apparently to give the company’s take on its battle with rival Intel Corp.
It lists
Couldn’t resist mentioning these lines from Endgadget “The website also details how the diabolical chip-manufacturer steals babies in the night, was responsible for the JFK assassination, and spits in your food when you’re not looking.”
Times sure have changed since people went on hunger strike to get their point through!
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May 30th, 2007
Severing exclusive ties with Intel Corp, Toshiba, the world’s fourth largest laptop PC maker, reportedly today announced that it will source microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Toshiba said it intends putting AMD processors in about 20 percent of the notebooks it sells in Europe and the US.
The microprocessors, which are the main brains of computers, will be used for Toshiba
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May 21st, 2007
US chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. unveiled details of its upcoming mobile processor, code-named Griffin, as well as the platform that will support it, code-named Puma at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday.
With the release of its first-ever chip platform designed specifically for notebook personal computers, AMD is apparently making attempts to catch up with Intel Corp as Centrino notebook platform, formerly code-named Santa Rosa.
‘AMD said that one of its main goals in acquiring ATI was to create more robust computer platforms. Puma confirms that the company is now heading down that path. AMD Fellow Maurice Steinman, one of the main engineers for Griffin, AMDs next generation notebook processor, told me that the chip?s later stages of its development included a high level of collaboration between AMD processor designers and ATI chipset engineers. The higher level of collaboration was vital in that AMD will combine Griffin with the AMD RS780 chipset (designed by ATI) to create form Puma.
AMD produced the first prototype Griffin processors about six weeks ago Steinman had one on hand at our meeting and showed it rendering video and will begin sampling them to PC makers soon. Notebooks based on the Puma platform will hit the market by mid-2008.
Some would argue that Puma is simply AMD catching up to Intel. Thats true on many levels. Puma follows a similar path to Intels Centrino notebook platform. Centrino platforms pair Intels notebook processor, the Core 2 Duo, with its own chipsets and wireless modules.
Santa Rosa, the latest Centrino iteration couples the Core 2 Duo with a mobile 965 chipset and IntelPRO wirless module. AMD doesnt currently have an overarching brand name for its mobile platform, right now. Nor does it make wireless modules. But AMD is clearly positioning Puma as its platform of choice for notebooks.’
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