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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 [...]

Intel doesn’t like to be talked about in a disparaging way. After a long time of no delivery on a product, effectively making it vaporware, a new amount of work is going into the Larrabee project, and the actual product may be materializing.
This morning, which is odd enough, as not much news in the computer [...]

Ultra, a company that has been regarded as a less than serious supplier of technology in this house [not the least of which is because of the association with TigerDirect] has finally decided to get serious with power supply offerings.
The new offerings are fully modular, which seems logical, because when using the main power to [...]

Top memory maker, Samsung has decided that memory is a place to be green, as much as with any other part of the computer. Toward that end, they are announcing new DDR3 memory that uses less voltage than the current JDEC standards, which allows for less energy being used, and less dissipated as heat. This [...]

Power, that is. Without much fanfare, AMD has started delivering more efficient chips, with the AM3 socket configuration. The most conspicuous offering is the Phenom II 945 X4, which is spec’ed identically to the ‘other’ Phenom II  945 X4, except that this new model has a power usage of only 95 watts at full bore, [...]

There is no doubt about it, all the major manufacturers are jumping on board with motherboards based on the Intel Atom dual-core processor. With the need to save energy, and bad economy, plus the general idea that efficiency and utility is all that is needed in a computer, many people will be buying much smaller [...]

With all the advances in technology, it is easy to think that small increments of change don’t mean much. When the technology could be something to change the energy balance of the world, people sit up and take notice. Sanyo is a company involved in all phases of the electronics realm. They have been one [...]

I missed this on Betanews yesterday.  The article tells of IBM and some other partners, notably AMD, making the jump to 28 nanometer production ahead of Intel.
This could be huge for both IBM and AMD, but for AMD it could truly vindicate that company’s claims that its design of its Phenom line of chips is [...]

After announcing a new upper shift to the low end, with the Pisces platform, AMD now releases the Radeon 4890 graphics chip, already flowing well on several manufacturer’s boards, with a great story to tell.
isn’t is strange that ATi is still so prominent, instead of AMD?
While it isn’t challenging the top position, currently occupied [...]

This article, in Maximum PC, makes that statement. It’s not really an honest one, however, but a deception – you know, one of those stories where the actual words are used to confuse the reader, yet, in the most exact sense, no lies are there.
The real story is that what the story is trying to [...]

Today, in an article on MSN, a look at the newest diesel automobiles offered by Mercedes, Volkswagen, and Honda shows that there might be good reasons to purchase one of these autos, over a hybrid or full electric car.
Reading that at first, I was sure that this was a sell job for the cars, with [...]

Earlier today, I wrote about the new Volkswagen that can achieve 282 miles per gallon of fuel. It really is astounding, but then it is not very practical for many. Large families, people who need to carry things, and cross-country travelers will all find the car doesn’t meet their needs.
I have been looking around to [...]