Company reps flat out deny AMD’s claims, dismissing most as simply lies.
For the past few months AMD and Nvidia have had a public spar over claims that Nvidia’s Gameworks middleware is crippling the performance of Ubisoft’s recently released Watchdogs on AMD hardware. Now, Nvidia has hit back h…
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Low-power laptop includes a touchscreen display and a AMD E1 Micro-6200T processor.
The computer that’s likely to be the highest-profile hardware win for AMD’s Mullins chip has been released. The Hewlett Packard Pavillion 10z laptop, which sports AMD’s E1 Micro-6200T processor is now available …
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Otherwise healthy year-over-year increases in earnings and revenue aren’t enough to address AMD’s debt issue.
Continued growth in AMD’s non-traditional markets have allowed the company to continue growing its revenue, but debt payments are hurting its profitability according to its secon…
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Radeon R9 280 and R9 280X cards will no longer be rebrands with AMD’s new GPU.
AMD’s best-selling Radeon R9 280 and R9 280X cards will be getting a new GPU called Tonga sometime soon, according to a report by VR-Zone’s sister site VR-Zone Chinese.
Tonga is set to replace the Tahti Pro GPU foun…
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Kaveri is AMD’s first heterogeneous APU, but the name itself has its roots in the Indian mythology.
To most of the Western world, the name Kaveri is eponymous with AMD’s third-generation APUs. However, the name has its roots in the Indian mythology, where Kaveri is portrayed as a go…
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AMD graphics executive Richard Huddy talks secret contracts between developers and Nvidia, Gameworks and Intel’s interest in Mantle in wide ranging interview.
AMD isn’t backing down from its PR offensive against Nvidia’s Gameworks, opening another front against Nvidia in a wide ranging inter…
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AMD follows its usual summer-FX pattern by releasing a refreshed version of the same chip — but this time with watercooling.
A few days ago AMD’s Roy Taylor teased the Twittersphere with a picture of a box for a new, watercooled FX-series processor. He didn’t say anything more, so nat…
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Is it a desktop-FX APU? A follow-up to the FX- 9590? Nobody knows.
Over the weekend, AMD’s Roy Taylor, the company’s most Twitter-active employee, posted a picture of what appears to be a box for a new water cooled entry in the FX-series of chips.
Taylor didn’t tweet more than “something new is…
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The energy efficiency of AMD chips increased tenfold over the last six years, but AMD thinks it can do much better.
Utilizing Heterogeneous System Architecture on chips is the key to massive increases in the power efficiency of AMD’s processors, according to AMD’s CTO Mark Pap…
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GPU sales are expected to take a 30 to 40 percent dive this quarter, as demand evaporates.
GPU vendors — particularly AMD — have been blessed over the past year by Bitcoin and Litecoin driving up demand for video cards. GPUs, given the nature of their processor architecture, have…
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