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AMD is looking to drive the AI PC market with options across multiple product lines, which aren't limited to consumer processors. While primarily designed for the commercial sector, AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8000 'Phoenix' series of APUs for desktops, which AMD claims is the first professional-grade CPU to include an NPU designed to provide on-chip AI neural processing capabilities. AMD has also announced the Ryzen Pro 8040 'Hawk Point' series of mobile processors designed for commercial laptops and notebooks. AMD's Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors come with support from AMD's Pro Manageability and AMD Pro Business Ready suites and are built with AMD's current generation Zen 4 cores. The Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors are...
Sony Vaio Z2: Everything is Peripheral
Users who want everything out of their notebook, no matter how ridiculous the demands, are probably more than at least a little curious about Sony's VAIO Z2. There's good...
88 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/13/2012
The Opteron 6276: a closer look
When we first looked at the Opteron 6276, our time was limited and we were only able to run our virtualization, compression, encryption, and rendering benchmarks. Most servers capable...
52 by Johan De Gelas on 2/9/2012
AMD Releases Two Llano Based Athlon II X4 CPUs
AMD has quietly released two Athlon II X4 CPUs, the 638 and 641. These are based on Llano (i.e. Stars+/K10.5 architecture) but lack an integrated GPU. The socket is...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 2/8/2012
AMD Announces Turks Based FirePro V3900
While AMD’s consumer GPU division is well into its deployment of their first 28nm products, the long validation and certification period for business hardware means that AMD’s business GPU...
8 by Ryan Smith on 2/7/2012
AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabric
A theme of the new AMD is modularity. We've of course heard this before as it has always been a goal of AMD's to bring to market more modular...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/3/2012
Understanding AMD's Roadmap & New Direction
We've been providing live coverage of AMD's 2012 Financial Analyst Day from Santa Clara today, but if you want a summary of the company's strategy under new CEO Rory...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Tablet Architectures: Hondo at 4.5W, Future Sub-2W SoC
In its client roadmap AMD revealed Hondo, a 4.5W APU with 1 - 2 low voltage Bobcat cores and an on-die DX11 GPU built on a 40nm process. Hondo...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Ambidextrous, Not Married to Any One Architecture, ARM in the Datacenter?
We've been hammering this point home all day, but AMD just mentioned it again. The company wants to be a solutions provider, one that's ambidextrous and not married to...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Server Roadmap: Abu Dhabi, Seoul & Delhi CPUs
We've got a server roadmap update from AMD courtesy of its Financial Analyst Day here in Santa Clara, California. The changes to the 2012 - 2013 roadmap aren't all...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Client CPU/GPU/APU Roadmap Revealed
AMD gave us a quick update on its 2012 - 2013 client roadmap, mostly focusing on new CPU/APU releases although there's a brief mention of Sea Islands - the...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD & Compal Show Off 18mm Trinity Notebook
AMD's Trinity APU, due out near the middle of the year, will combine two Piledriver modules (four "cores") with an even beefier GPU. We've already laid out the general...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
What AMD Views as Important: Tablets, Servers, Notebooks & GPUs
The slide above really puts AMD's focus into perspective. AMD is mostly interested in markets that have high annual growth rates. Looking above you can see that pretty much...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Nods at Shorter Design Cycles, More Synthesized Designs
The presentations we've seen from AMD thus far today haven't been very specific in terms of numbers, but there's a lot of reading between the lines that we can...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD: Flexible Around ISA
The slide above gives an example of the new agile/flexible AMD as it applies to the datacenter. Again, we're not seeing ARM, but we are seeing that AMD is...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2012 - Mark Papermaster, SVP & CTO Presentation
If you want to follow the CTO presentation we've been quoting from a lot today, check it out in the gallery below.
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Open to Integrating 3rd Party IP in Future SoCs
Don't expect AMD to go into much detail on this here at the Financial Analyst Day, but the slide above shows a definite step towards becoming a modern SoC...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Outlines HSA Roadmap: Unified Memory for CPU/GPU in 2013, HSA GPUs in 2014
AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just put up this slide that shows its HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) roadmap through 2014. This year we got Graphics Core Next, but next year...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Rory Read Outlines AMD's Future Strategy
AMD's Financial Analyst Day is under way and we're currently hearing from Rory Read about the future of the company. Specifics and roadmaps will follow, but the fundamental shift...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Launch Recap
I'm going to be honest with you: the Radeon HD 7970 launch recap was pretty boring, with its wall-to-wall stock coolers and stock clocks. Like many high-end GPU launches...
16 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/31/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review Feat. Sapphire & XFX: Sewing Up The High-End Market
Announced late last month and shipping 3 weeks ago, AMD kicked off the 28nm generation with a bang with their Radeon HD 7970. Combining TSMC’s new 28nm HKMG process...
259 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2012
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