APUs
In May, AMD unveiled their Ryzen 7040U series of CPUs designed for thin and light notebooks, which they codenamed 'Phoenix.' Initially, AMD announced four Zen 4-based CPUs for the ultra-portable notebook market, with the Ryzen 7 7840U (8C/16T) and Ryzen 5 7640U (6C/12T) both leading the charge with AMD's integrated Ryzen AI, which is AMD's first-generation NPU for on-chip AI and inferencing. Fast forward a few months, and AMD is unveiling an additional two new Ryzen 7040U series processors. But there's a twist: these chips are using their smaller and highly optimized Zen 4c cores. Although AMD's more petite Zen 4c core initially debuted with the launch of their EPYC 97x4 'Bergamo' processors for native cloud deployments, server chips were never going to be the...
AMD Q3 2012 Earnings: $157M Loss; 15% of Workforce To Be Cut
Picking up from where we left off with Intel, earnings week has continued to roll along with most of the major tech companies having reported their Q3 earnings. As...
59 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2012
AMD Introduces FirePro A300 & A320 APUs: Trinity for Graphics Workstations
At its Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, AMD laid out its vision for the future of the company. For the most part the strategy sounded a lot like...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/7/2012
AMD Reveals Brazos 2.0 APUs and FCH
AMD today announced their Brazos 2.0 APUs, also known as their 2012 AMD E-series APU. Brazos has actually been a major success for AMD, particularly in emerging markets, as...
31 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2012
AMD Llano HTPC Builders Guide
Home Theater PCs (HTPCs) are becoming more and more popular due to a number of reasons. The desire of consumers to watch and enjoy their media, be it Blu-rays/DVDs...
76 by Ganesh T S on 6/5/2012
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 Trinity APU at CES, Shipping in Mid-2012
AMD has a bunch of cool stuff to show off at this year's CES. The first is the most expected: a demo of its upcoming Trinity APU. The demo...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012
AMD Intros New Unlocked K-Series Llano APUs: A8-3870K & A8-3670K
When we first reviewed Llano we thought it was a fairly competent desktop part if you needed a solution that didn't rely on discrete graphics. My biggest issue with...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2011
AMD's First Dual-Core Llano APUs: A4-3400 & A4-3300 Launched
Today AMD introduced its first dual-core Llano APUs: the A4-3400 and A4-3300. These APUs have only 758M active transistors, a bit over half of the transistors in the bigger...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2011
HP Leaks Three Unreleased AMD A-series APUs
HP has accidentally leaked three AMD A-series APUs while updating the service guide for HP Pavilion g7. The update simply includes SKUs and specs for three yet to be...
5 by Kristian Vättö on 9/7/2011
Intel's Haswell IGP to Feature DirectX 11.1, Increased Professional Application Support
Intel's integrated graphics processors have long had a poor reputation when it comes to gaming, and while the IGPs get a little closer to competitiveness with each iteration, that...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/5/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Announces Bobcat-based Z Series APUs for Tablet Market
While AMD does not have a true SoC to combat the likes of Intel, NVIDIA, and ARM, this doesn’t mean they’re completely ignoring the market for the type of...
8 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
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