AMD

There are a few case designs that are very nice looking, and accomplish all the things that a case is designed to do. The case is designed to hold all the components, without letting them flex too much, become dusty, or overheat.
That last part is becoming harder all the time, as people try to stuff [...]

It has not been a good time for makers of custom PCs, as the economy makes all but the most mundane of purchases look extravagant. Also, there hasn’t been lots of talk about the cottage industry of high performance computers since the purchase of Alienware by Dell. Though Alienware still survives (barely), Dell seems to [...]

In news beyond the settlement of hostilities with Intel this morning, we find that AMD has announced new architectures, which, depending on what you read, is either not easily understood or fantastic if AMD can financially make it through the next year.
The Bulldozer and Bobcat architectures are showing some new things for AMD, like a [...]

All litigation between AMD and Intel has been settled, including any upcoming litigation, which has not yet seen the inside of a courtroom. The story is a strange one, because there has been litigation between AMD and Intel for the better part of my life; how strange it will be to not have any to [...]

The problems of the world continue no matter the hopes and best wishes of any business or corporate entity. That is the reason we have so many reports of the early sales of Windows 7 being up, by as much as 234%, according to some reports, yet other reports state that PC sales are down. [...]

An as yet unannounced video card,  featuring a prodigious amount of fast onboard memory, also shows the reason for the port that some (including me a while ago) thought was a solution looking for a problem.
An AMD/ATi 5870 with 2 GB of GDDR5 is shown in a blurb on Tech Connect, and also shows that, [...]

It’s more than a slogan for a salt company. It’s an old saw that means when bad things happen, they tend to come in droves.
That could be the forecast for Intel, as we have news that the Federal Trade Commission might jump on the dogpile that is forming on Intel. The suit expected to come [...]

With the newest revision of its (currently) fastest processor, AMD is moving towards greater efficiency for all its CPUs, and undoubtedly trying to reign in the thermal envelope for the upcoming Thuban six-core processors.
The Phenom II X4 965 is now rated at 125W instead of 140W, which will certainly allow its usage in many more [...]

If you think that there are too many CPUs today, from both AMD and Intel, with features and performance too close to each other to make much difference, you are not alone.
Back in the old days, we used to have distinct grades of CPU lines, and they were clearly defined by speed and performance changes [...]

AMD seems to believe that simply because it has released a new set of good quality video cards that it suddenly owns the world. This doesn’t jibe with the story going around about more layoffs in a few weeks at the company.
To top that off, the company has been suffering from a lack of product, [...]

After attending a Microsoft Windows Launch Event yesterday, along with a Developer’s Track, I can see how much change there is in Windows 7 that has largely been ignored by the press.
Though I still hate the lack of the hierarchical menu system, I can see that the changes to the taskbar are many, and again, [...]

While there is no news at the high end, which continues to be dominated by Intel, AMD seems determined to remove any chance of Intel eking out a profit at the low end, or making a claim of having the most energy efficient processors there.
This morning has a number of processors released in the 45W [...]

The famous company from Santa Clara, and the really famous one from Cupertino, are both a bit beleaguered these days, with AMD having problems fighting off the gains in CPU marketshare of Intel, and Apple fighting off the onslaught of the many PC companies, all eager to take a bite out of the Apple pie.
One [...]

Larrabee, as most power users know, is the ‘answer’ to the question “Why does Intel always make graphics that suck?” It is to be the Core to AMD’s Barcelona, in the war of the big guns in computing.
Anyone who has used onboard Intel graphics, or was unlucky enough to purchase one of the older i740 [...]

All the rumors are true. The end of nVidia motherboards is here, as the chipset maker fights with Intel over access to the connections of the latest CPUs, which it says will take some time. No court battle is mentioned with AMD, but the company says there is no demand for nVidia chipsets for AMD [...]