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AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870

Extreme modders over at NGOHQ reveal that they have been successful in porting nVidia’s PhysX to an AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870.
AMD (who own ATI) have been playing catch-up to nVidia’s new GPU-accelerated PhysX technology. With the launch of nVidia’s GTX 200-series, anyone has been able to experience PhysX. However, AMD [...]

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ATI Radeon 4800-Series

So even now that AMD and ATI have had a while to get to know each other well, we were still somewhat disappointed with the lower end 4800-Series cards. The 4870-Series, on the other hand, was kept a complete secret from everyone until now. Even those with the insider scoops were strictly forbidden [...]

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AMD announced that its new next-gen stream processor, FireStream 9250, breaks the one teraflop barrier. Announced in Germany at a Supercomputing conference, AMD claims the new Firestream 9250 fits into a single PCI slot, consumes less than 150 watts of power, and uses a second generation double precision floating point unit for delivery.  It [...]

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HP Pavilion dv7

This morning HP released a slew of new notebook computers that included both budget consumer-geared notebooks as well as some business oriented devices. All of the new laptops released are set to offer Intel’s Centrino 2 or Centrino 2 with vPro or AMD’s Turion 54 X2 Ultra dual-Core mobile processors.
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AMD’s presumed ‘Netbook’

The notebook that AMD had on display at Computex 2008 is not a full-blown AMD product.  According to the device manager, the device is an Everun.  As speculated by Engadget, the ‘Everun’ name is most likely a placeholder in the computer, although AMD spokesman Phil Hughes confirmed that the Raon Digital moniker was [...]

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According to sources from Via reporting to DigiTimes, Via plans to adopt the standard 45nm manufacturing process and its first dual core processors by the end of 2009.  Additionally, the company announced its plans to release the same number of shipments in the first-half of 2008 as it did for all of 2007.  It’s always [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) made available today new low-power quad-core Opteron processor chips. The highly efficient processors have a much lower thermal envelope of 55 watts compared to current processors, which average 75-105 watts.
The new Opteron chips are aimed for servers and are available in both the 2300 and 8300 series. As the [...]

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Announced last Monday, AMD’s “business class” line of Phenom and Athlon chips show a desire to keep itself competitive with Intel in the business chip market. One caveat, however: PC manufacturers will maintain the business class systems for 24 months to keep the machines current in today’s ever changing technology market. HP, Dell, [...]

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