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AMD ships new 790GX gaming chip

News AMD today announced the availability of silicon targeted at the 'performance' gaming community. The 790GX allows gamers to safely run Phenom-processor-based systems at speeds of more than 3.0GHz using a technology AMD calls 'Advanced Clock...

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6 August 2008, 8:59

AMD releases chip for gadgets

News The Geode NX, meanwhile, derives more from the Athlon line created at AMD. These chips are used in the Personal Internet Communicator promoted by AMD in India. AMD, meanwhile, earlier released the Geode NX line.

23 May 2005, 8:35

AMD edges Intel in early dual-core benchmarks

News AMD was second in coming to market with a dual-core desktop chip, but it's first in benchmark scores, according to chip-testing Web sites. In multitasking tests, however, the Intel chips often edged out the equivalent AMD processors.

2 June 2005, 8:39

News.blog: AMD revs up PC gaming

News AMD on Thursday announced a new setup for PC gamers that combines two dual-core processors and two graphics processors, which should keep plenty of processing power supplied to even the most demanding games.

2 June 2006, 10:03

AMD blasts off Quad for PC gamers

News But AMD is betting that hardcore gamers won't care about the architecture used to build its new Quad FX Platform. AMD was expected to launch the new product, formerly known as '4x4', on Thursday via a motherboard built by Asustek.

30 November 2006, 9:19

AMD releases back-to-school dual-core Athlon

News AMD has released a new version of its dual-core desktop chip as the back-to-school buying season heats up. AMD will also cut processor prices on Monday, a spokeswoman said. In the second quarter, processor sales at AMD increased by 38 per cent over...

1 August 2005, 9:17

AMD cuts prices on many chips

News AMD cut the prices on a wide variety of processors on Monday as it gears up for back-to-school buying. The new prices can be found on AMD's Web site. Years ago, setting pricing was easy for AMD. The company would obtain a copy of Intel's new price...

2 August 2005, 9:00

AMD back in the roaring 20s

News AMD has claimed its highest market-share position against Intel in years, cracking the elusive 20 per cent barrier, CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com has learned. AMD now accounts for 21.4 per cent of all desktop, laptop and server processors using...

25 January 2006, 9:27

AMD's share of PC market soars

News Market-share figures released by Current Analysis on Wednesday show that Intel lost significant PC market share to AMD in the US retail sector in the fourth quarter. Intel executives said on Tuesday that they expected to have lost about one point...

19 January 2006, 9:41

AMD's quad-core 'Barcelona' to launch next month

News AMD has prioritized production of our low-power and standard-power products because our customers and ecosystem demand it, and we firmly believe that the introduction of our native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor will deliver on the promise of the...

2 July 2007, 10:10

AMD's new FX chip kicks up speed -- and price

News AMD's latest 3D chip is designed for PC game enthusiasts who need blistering speed and have huge wallets. The FX-57 is a follow on to AMD's Athlon 64 FX-55, which runs at 2.6GHz and costs $827. So far, AMD has identified close to 40 second-tier PC...

28 June 2005, 8:09

AMD unveils integrated graphics chipset

News AMD's acquisition of ATI Technologies is bearing fruit. The merged company announced the AMD 690 chipset on Wednesday, the first product from AMD to feature a graphics processor from its ATI division integrated into a chipset for its Athlon 64...

1 March 2007, 10:12

AMD's new Puma stalks Intel's Centrino

News AMD is prepping a rival to Centrino. The chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient laptop chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma -- similar to Intel's Centrino -- that will allow AMD to better compete in...

18 May 2007, 9:42

AMD to go quad-core with Phenom

News AMD says its badly needed quad-core desktop processors are on the way, and they'll arrive bearing a new name. Later this year, AMD will unveil its Phenom processors in quad-core and dual-core iterations.

14 May 2007, 8:49

AMD seeks to jump-start software changes

News AMD has released a program called SimNow that simulates its next-generation chips, a move to try to speed up the development of software that supports upcoming features. AMD announced the simulator on Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

10 August 2005, 9:39