AMD has been going head-to-head with Intel in the PC market for years, so it’s no surprise that they will be hot on Intel’s heels in the mobile space, too. Yep, they have plans to design tablet CPUs. It’s like two gorillas shrinking themselves to do battle in your pocket. More »
The Radeon 7970 is packing some serious firsts: a brand new core design, and the world’s first GPU using cool, efficient 28 nm transistors. But it’s also designed, of course, to be fast as hell. Gamers, you’re gonna want one. More »
AMD Australia has spilled the beans [paywalled] on the company’s plan for thinspiration: Intel won’t be the only ultra computer in town! No — coming soon, we’ll have AMD Ultrathins in addition to Intel Ultrabooks. Caveat: they might not be thin. More »
Your quad-core computer doesn’t seem so great anymore now, does it, champ? AMD’s Opteron 6200 boasts 16 cores running at up to 2.6 GHz each. That is a lot of number crunching. Sadly, the monster isn’t made for you. More »
A little online research can make you a much better consumer when it comes time to buy a new processor, or for that matter a new PC. Here’s how. More »
Just last month, AMD staged an event to squeeze an amazing 8429.38MHz out of its FX-8150 processor. The highest-clocked CPU in the world — it was a big production. And now they’ve been beat by a team of one. More »
More than a year after its inception, AMD’s eight-core FX CPU (codename: Bulldozer) is finally available for purchase. The chip is geared towards resource heavy applications, such as HD video editing and multi-display gaming. More »
It may not technically be the world’s fastest processor, but AMD squeezed an overclocked Guinness World Record number out of its impending 8-core FX CPU: 8.429GHz, beating the previous global high of 8.308GHz. Intel fanboys, begin your outrage! More »
Tom’s Guide has an excellent (and very lengthy) interview with John Carmack that avoids simply spruiking the upcoming Rage running on iD’s new iD Tech 5 game engine and instead discusses more general computing topics. Carmack’s not pulling too many punches, either. More »
