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Coming out of the dark times that preceded the launch of AMD's Zen CPU architecture in 2017, to say that AMD has turned things around on the back of Zen would be an understatement. Ever since AMD launched its first Zen-based Ryzen and EPYC processors for client and server computers, it has been consistently gaining x86 market share, growing from a bit player to a respectable rival to Intel (and all at Intel's expense). The first quarter of this year was no exception, according to Mercury Research, as the company achieved record high unit shares on x86 desktop and x86 server CPU markets due to success of its Ryzen 8000-series client products and 4th Generation EPYC processors. "Mercury noted in their first quarter report that...
AMD Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, & HD 4000 Video Cards Being Moved To Legacy Status In May
Late last week word began circulating that AMD would be dropping driver support for their DX10 generation GPUS – HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 – based on...
38 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2012
AMD Q1’12 Earnings Report: $1.59B Revenue, $590M Net Loss
It’s the middle of April and that means it’s once again earnings season for the prior quarter. Late yesterday AMD released their earnings report for Q1 2012, and it turned...
27 by Ryan Smith on 4/20/2012
AMD's Godfrey Cheng Joins Rick Bergman at Synaptics
A couple of weeks ago one of my oldest friends in the industry, Godfrey Cheng, announced his resignation from AMD. Godfrey came over from the ATI side of the...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/17/2012
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be...
53 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012
AMD Partners With PTC for Creo Parametric 2.0
A few months ago during the Radeon HD 7970 launch we discussed how AMD would be revising their Independent Software Vendor (ISV) relations. While their efforts with ISVs in...
9 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2012
Toshiba Satellite P755D: Nearing the End of the Road for Llano
While the launch of Trinity isn't too far away, it's important to remember there are still plenty of Llano notebooks available today with a lot to offer on their...
34 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/11/2012
Sony VAIO SE: An IPS Laptop for Under a Grand
Yes, folks, we finally managed to get someone to send us a mainstream laptop with an IPS display. Not that there are many choices; besides the Sony SE reviewed...
59 by Jarred Walton on 4/3/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.3 Drivers, Adds 7800 Series Support
AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. This version of the drivers introduces...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/29/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 Launch Recap
It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7800 series, but as we mentioned earlier this week and in our 7850 recap, that was...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Launch Recap
It has been weeks since we reviewed AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 cards, but unlike the 7900 and 7700 series cards, the 7800 series was given the typical...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
Puget Systems Echo: Intel and AMD Showdown at 65 Watts
Just about anyone can put together a solid computer using a decent midtower and the right parts. What we don't see as often is just how fast a computer...
62 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/21/2012
The Retail Radeon HD 7870 Review: HIS 7870 IceQ Turbo & PowerColor PCS+ HD7870
Two weeks ago AMD officially unveiled the Radeon HD 7800 series. Composed of the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7850, AMD broke from their earlier protocol...
57 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2012
This Just In: PowerColor PCS+ HD7870
Though AMD announced the Radeon HD 7800 series nearly two weeks ago, it won’t be until Monday that the cards officially go on sale. While we’re still at work...
27 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.2 Drivers, Supports Radeon HD 7000 Series
AMD has released the WHQL-certified version of its Catalyst 12.2 driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. In addition to the fixes and...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/12/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition & Radeon HD 7850 Review: Rounding Out Southern Islands
In 2009-2010, AMD launched the entire 4 chip Evergreen series in 6 months. By previous standards this was a quick pace for a new design, especially since AMD had...
173 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2012
GlobalFoundries Granted Independence, Acquires Remaining Stake from AMD
When AMD originally spun off its foundry business in 2008, the resulting Foundry Company (as it was called back then) was 55.6% ATIC owned and 44.4% AMD owned. Since...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/4/2012
AMD Executes on Promise of Agility, Intends to Acquire SeaMicro for $334M
At its 2012 Financial Analyst Day, AMD mentioned a conscious shift towards being a more agile company. Wanting a bigger piece of the high margin server market, AMD is...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/2/2012AMD Releases Video Driver for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
In conjunction with today’s release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, AMD has released a new set of drivers specifically for Windows 8. Dubbed the AMD Catalyst driver for...
18 by Ryan Smith on 2/29/2012AMD Releases FX-6200 and FX-4170 Processors; FX-8120 Gets a Price Cut
AMD sent word this morning that they’re doing some shuffling of their Bulldozer based FX processor lineup. Altogether in the near future AMD will be releasing a new CPU...
23 by Ryan Smith on 2/27/2012
AMD Radeon 7770 Launch Recap
We got off pretty easily with our 7750 launch recap earlier today - with only three cards, it was pretty simple to compare and contrast them and be done...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/20/2012
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