Roy Taylor’s mystery FX chip is a refreshed FX-9590 CPU

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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AMD’s Roy Taylor teases new water cooled FX-series CPU

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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Roy Taylor: AMD is a starfish and Intel a whale

AMD’s Roy Taylor (@amd_roy) talks APUs, gaming and writes the eulogy for CUDA and PhysX.

The PC market is shrinking, and Roy Taylor knows that.
But AMD’s VP of channel sales doesn’t let it get to him. The chief B2B salesman of the underdog in the CPU and GPU wars has quite the…

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AMD’s upcoming 8-Ball marketing campaign to emphasize APU price-performance advantage

AMD’s top channel salesman sat down with VR-Zone to talk about his upcoming program to pitch the current breed of Richland APUs as an ”almost as good” alternative to Intel’s Haswell processors.

AMD is planning an upcoming promotion with system builders and e-tailers…

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