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Hardware
ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World’s Fastest Graphics Card
6:20PM Dan Nosowitz | The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It’s outrageously fast. We’re talking 5 teraflops here, people. Teraflops. More »
Hardware
AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
12:01PM Rosa Golijan
7.08GHz. That’s the record-shattering speed an AMD Phenom II processor was overclocked to using a massive amount of liquid helium. You can watch the process in this documentary video set to a kickass soundtrack. [Crunchgear]
Hardware
AMD’s Atom-Mauling Bobcat And High-End Bulldozer Chips
7:39AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, AMD’s sorta revelling in getting handed $US1.25 billion by Intel, but more importantly, they’ve just revealed the future of AMD chips: The promised Atom competitor Bobcat and a new high-end architecture called Bulldozer. More »
Business
Intel Pays AMD $US1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
3:23AM John Herrman | In case you were wondering if Intel’s business practices were as shady as the European Commission and the NY Attorney General think they are, look no further than this: Intel is paying $US1.25 billion — plus frills — to avoid fighting. More »
Computers
PC Makers May Have Too Much Stock, Deals On The Way?
3:30AM Chris Jacob | Sounds like PC makers might have missed Ballmer’s call for tempered Windows 7 expectations. There’s a chance that they’re sitting on a glut of inventory now, is there any hope that excess stock will translate to even better holiday deals? More »
Games
Rumour: ATI Locked In For Next-Gen Xbox Graphics?
11:19PM Danny Allen | Nothing is official, but Fudzilla’s sources suggest Microsoft liked the Xbox 360’s Xenos graphics enough to stay with ATI for its next console, possibly slated for 2012. Given the lead time, it may even be a 28-nanometre chip. [Fudzilla via CrunchGear]
Hardware
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Is First To Drive 180in Monitors
6:20AM Mark Wilson | Do you remember that crazy, 6×30-inch monitor rig by AMD? Well their upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards are what drive the uber display. More »
Hardware
AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed “Thuban”
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Just one day before Intel’s IDF conference, AMD dropped a little bit of a bomb on us, confirming that they will bring hexa-core processors to consumer computers. Even better, they’ll be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. More »
Hardware
AMD Athlon II X4 620: Four Cores For $US99
3:20PM Danny Allen | AMD’s new Athlon II X4 chips are like a Phenom II minus the L3 cache. And they’re super-cheap: $US99 (2.6GHz-620), and $US122 (2.8GHz-630). Also looks like they hold their own against the $US150 Core 2 Quad 8200: [Maximum PC] More »
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