Join us this week as we discuss rumors of Intel's 10nm desktop and discrete GPU plans, take a look at the latest 3rd-Gen Threadripper leaks, check out some classic DOS games that…
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The release of AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs a handful of years ago upset a group of people who felt that quad-core, dual thread CPUs were not actually octa-core processors...
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If you bought a Bulldozer chip from AMD, you might have been part of a class action suit which was settled yesterday to the tune of $12.1 million, or $35...
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It is no secret that AMD has been struggling for some time. The company has had success through the years, but it seems that the last decade has…
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It is no secret that AMD has faced an uphill battle since the release of the original Core 2 processors from Intel....
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2012 was a significant year for AMD. Many of the top executives left and there were many new and exciting hires at the company. Lisa Su, who would eventually become President and…
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A little while ago, I decided to think about processor design as a game. You are given a budget of complexity, which is determined by your process node,…
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There are some pretty breathless analysis of a single leaked block diagram that is supposedly from AMD. This is one of the first indications of what the Zen architecture looks like from…
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If subtle just isn't your thing then the Sharkoon Bulldozer might be a good case for you. At 480 x 235 x 460mm (18.9 x 9.2 x 18.1") this is a large…
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Today AMD has released two new processors that address the AM3+ market. The FX-6350 and FX-4350 are two new refreshes of the quad and hex core lineup of processors. Currently the FX-8350…
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AMD may have united GPU and CPU into the APU but one hurdle had remained until now, the the non-uniformity of memory access between the two processors. Today we learned about one…
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Several years back we first heard AMD’s plans on creating a uniform memory architecture which will allow the CPU to share address spaces with the GPU. The promise here…
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Earlier today a report from Kotaku.com posted some details about the upcoming PlayStation console, code named Orbis and sometimes just called the PS4. Kotaku author Luke Plunkett got the...
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The FX-8350 Vishera processor from AMD has finally arrived with 8 fully unlocked cores of polished Piledriver processing power. With Piledriver there are no huge changes to the existing Bulldozer architecture, this…
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Bulldozer is the word. Ok, perhaps it is not “the” word, but it is “a” word. When AMD let that little codename slip some years back, AMD enthusiasts and tech…
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The NDA is over and we can finally tell you all about the new generation of Trinity, especially the compute portion which we were not allowed to discuss in the...
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Trinity. Where to start? I find myself asking that question, as the road to this release is somewhat tortuous. Trinity, as a product code name, came around…
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You've seen the slides everywhere and read through what Josh could observe and predict from those slides but at the end of Hot Chips will still know little more about...
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