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News: Eight-core Xeon 7500 family arrives on the scene |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 12:54 |
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Nehalem-EX has a rather impressive feature set: a native eight-core design (with 16 threads, thanks to Hyper-Threading), Turbo Boost, 24MB of shared L3 cache, four QuickPath Interface links, four DDR3 memory channels, and support for up to 16 memory modules per socket—even more than the 12 modules supported by the latest Opterons.
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News: iSuppli: AMD, Intel both increase CPU revenue share |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 12:51 |
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Despite effectively getting pushed out of the high-end CPU market by Intel, AMD actually saw its share of global microprocessor revenue increase in the fourth quarter, according to iSuppli's latest preliminary numbers. In fact, the market research firm estimates that both AMD and Intel saw revenue share increases at the expense of other suppliers.
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News: AMD unleashes 12-core Opteron processors |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Monday, 29 March 2010 19:30 |
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AMD announces availability of a new server platform featuring the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market. The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today - workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more.
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News: AMD makes the first OpenGL 4.0 driver available today! |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 21:32 |
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The driver enables all OpenGL 4.0 functionality on ATI Radeon HD 5400, HD 5500, HD 5600 and HD 5700 series graphics cards, with the exception of double precision support, a feature that will be enabled in these products at a later date. Again, the new features introduced in OpenGL 4.0 work immediately with ATI Radeon HD 5400 and higher cards, by way of today’s beta driver update.
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 10:54 |
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We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.6 you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. Firefox 3.6.2 fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. Several additional security and stability issues have also been addressed in this version.
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Review: AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Monday, 29 March 2010 19:32 |
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AMD's offering today is very different. Magny-cours is the CPU version of the American muscle car. It's a brutally large 12-core CPU: two dies, each measuring 346mm2 connected by a massive 24 link Hyper Transport pipe. AMD's Magny-cours Opteron has almost two billion transistors and 19.6MB of cache on-die.
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Review: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:48 |
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Today NVIDIA is launching two cards: the GeForce GTX 480, and the GeForce GTX 470. Both of them are based on GF100, the first and largest member of the Fermi family. Right off the bat, we can tell you that neither card is a complete GF100 chip. We know from NVIDIA’s earlier announcements that a complete GF100 is a 512 SP/core part organized in a 4x16x32 fashion, but these first parts will not have all of GF100’s functional units activated. Instead we’ll be getting a 480 core part for the GTX 480, and a 448 core part for the GTX 470. Ultimately we will not be seeing the full power of GF100 right away, but you can be sure that somewhere down the line we’ll see a GTX 485 or GTX 490 with all of GF100’s functional units enabled.
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Drivers: ATI Catalyst 10.3 |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:19 |
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This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI Catalyst™ software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.
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News: MSI announces its Twin Frozr II HD 5870/5850 |
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 10:52 |
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Although both of these cards have been shown during CeBIT, MSI has now officially launched its Twin Frozr II HD 5850 and HD 5870 cards. Both cards are left to tick at their reference clocks but feature a non-reference cooler that should bring lower GPU temps and should pack plenty of overclocking potential.
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