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AMD: We have taped out our first FinFET products
Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that it had taped out its first products, which will be made using a FinFET process technology. While AMD does not reveal which products it had taped out, it is...
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AMD vows to keep R&D investments at appropriate levels
Despite of tough times, Advanced Micro Devices plans to sustain its research and development investments on certain levels in a bid to ensure that its products are competitive in the future. Research...
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AMD begins development of its third major semi-custom design
Advanced Micro Devices recently started to design its third semi-custom accelerated processing unit for an undisclosed customer. Some believe that this third semi-custom system-on-chip will eventually...
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AMD unveils A8-7670K accelerated processing unit
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced its new A8-7670K accelerated processing unit designed for low-cost personal computers. The new APU is based on “Kaveri” design and features slightly lower...
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AMD begins to ship Radeon R9 Nano to partners, images hit the web
A web-site has published the first images of AMD’s third graphics card based on the code-named “Fiji” graphics processing unit – the AMD Radeon R9 Nano. The publication of the picture indicates that...
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AMD is researching multi-core ‘exascale heterogeneous processor’
Advanced Micro Devices has confirmed that it is researching a multi-core accelerated processing unit based on “Zen” micro-architecture, which will eventually power supercomputers with extreme...
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AMD’s project Quantum may never make it to the market
Small form-factor multi-GPU project Quantum concept personal computer that Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated earlier this year was an impressive piece of hardware. Unfortunately, it may never really...
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Samsung expects graphics cards with 6144-bit bus, 48GB of HBM memory onboard
Samsung Electronics indicated that it plans to start volume production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) next year at the Intel Developer Forum this week. At the trade-show, the company revealed its...
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Sales of desktop graphics cards hit 10-year low in Q2 2015
Sales of graphics cards for desktop PCs decreased once again in the second quarter of 2015, according to data from Jon Peddie Research. Market share of Advanced Micro Devices also hit a new low during...
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Specs of AMD Radeon R9 Nano confirmed: 4096 SPs, 8.19TFLOPS
It is not a secret that AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 Nano graphics card will be the most powerful adapter for mini-ITX personal computers ever produced and will have no rivals for quite some time. As it...
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AMD readies faster A8 and A10 accelerated processing units
Advanced Micro Devices is working on two new A8 and A10 accelerated processing units for desktop systems. The new chips will be based on the code-named “Kaveri” design and will not bring tangible...
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Pricing and launch date of AMD Radeon R9 Nano leaked
Specifications and capabilities of AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 Nano graphics card have been largely known for quite some time now. The new graphics adapter will be the highest-performing mini-ITX add-in...
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AMD Radeon R9 Nano: Extreme performance in mini-ITX form-factor
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday introduced its highly-anticipated AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, which combines massive performance with relatively low power consumption and ultra-small...
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AMD started to work on HBM technology nearly a decade ago
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) introduced along with AMD’s code-named “Fiji” graphics processing unit radically changes the way graphics adapters are built and also dramatically improves potential...
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AMD will not allow partners to modify specs of Radeon R9 Nano
Even though Advanced Micro Devices will allow its partners to build their own versions of AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, it will not let them significantly alter specifications of such graphics...
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AMD: We are actively promoting HBM and do not collect royalties
Advanced Micro Devices is currently the only company to use high-bandwidth memory it co-developed with SK Hynix and other partners. While usage of HBM is clearly a competitive advantage that AMD has...
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AquaComputer unveils full-cover water-block for Radeon R9 Nano
AquaComputer, a leading maker of components for custom liquid-cooling solutions, on Friday introduced its full-cover water-block for AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, thus making high-performance...
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AMD preps Radeon R9 380X with fully-fledged “Tonga” GPU
Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly working on a new graphics card based on its code-named “Tonga” graphics processing unit. The Radeon R9 380X will be powered by the fully-fledged GPU with all stream...
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Shortages of AMD Radeon R9 Fury-series graphics cards persist
About three months since the formal announcement, Advanced Micro Devices’ flagship products based on the code-named “Fiji” graphics processing units are still in extremely short supply, according to a...
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AMD reportedly begins to fight back market share from Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices began to fight back its market share from Nvidia Corp. in the third quarter of the year, a financial analyst revealed on Wednesday. While Nvidia still dominates the market, the...
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AMD Radeon R9 380X with ‘Tonga XT’ to hit the market in late October
Advanced Micro Devices and its partners are gearing up to release the Radeon R9 380X graphics card featuring the code-named “Tonga XT” graphics processing unit. The product is expected to hit the...
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PowerColor, XFX prep to start shipments of AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards
PowerColor and XFX are preparing to add another graphics card into their range of adapters based on AMD’s “Fiji” graphics processing unit. In the coming weeks the two companies will start to sell their...
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Nvidia to fetch second-gen HBM memory from Samsung and SK Hynix – Report
As developers of graphics processing units start to use high-bandwidth memory (HBM), manufacturers of graphics cards cease their ability to buy memory directly from DRAM makers. A good news is that...
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AMD engineer: Developers were given the total freedom with ‘Zen’
The “Zen” micro-architecture is a tremendously important project for Advanced Micro Devices. If the new technology is successful, AMD will become a viable developer of central processing units again....
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XFX is working on liquid-cooled Radeon R9 Fury graphics card
XFX is gearing up to release a Radeon R9 Fury-based graphics adapter featuring a liquid cooling system. The card will feature overclocking potential on par with AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, which will help...
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Valve: DirectX 12 does not make a lot of sense, Vulkan does
Microsoft Corp.’s DirectX 12 application programming interface promises to significantly improve performance of video games in Windows 10 operating system thanks to efficient usage of modern hardware....
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AMD unveils embedded ‘Tonga XT’ GPU with 2048 stream processors, 256-bit...
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday introduced its new lineup of embedded graphics processing units designed for various special-purpose and professional applications. Among the new embedded graphics...
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AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon R9 Fury X2 ‘Gemini’ adapter spotted in India
Advanced Micro Devices has begun to test its upcoming dual-chip graphics card internally. The company shipped six samples of its dual-GPU Radeon graphics adapters to India, which means that the company...
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AMD legal complaint calls for ban on products from LG, Vizio and more
It looks like AMD has a bone to pick with LG, Vizio, MediaTek and Sigma Designs as the chip maker has filed a lawsuit recently, requesting bans on products sold by these companies due to patent...
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Vizio and Sigma Designs found guilty of infringing on AMD graphics patent
Back in early 2017, we learned that AMD had filed a lawsuit against TV makers, LG and Vizio, in addition to chip suppliers MediaTek and Sigma Designs. In the complaint, AMD said that these companies...
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