Archive for March, 2008

AMD Delivers Industry’s First 3D Workstation Graphics Card with DisplayPort

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AMD today announced it is advancing application performance with stunning imagery through the introduction of the first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support. The ATI FireGL V7700 professional graphics accelerator provides superior rendering speed, 3D performance and color fidelity for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation ...

Intel to Delay P45 Chipset to mid-June

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Intel is delaying the launch schedule of its P45 chipset from originally in May to mid-June, DigiTimes is reporting. The delay of the chipset is due to problems over compatibility between the chipset's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards. Intel has notified its board partners that the problem should ...

AMD Extends Energy-Efficient Processing Leadership with World’s First 65W Quad Core Processor

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

AMD today announced the availability of the world’s first energy-efficient desktop quad-core processor, providing customers with a cool and quiet digital media workhorse. With AMD Phenom X4 9100e quad-core processors, digital media enthusiasts and performance-hungry users can experience the powerful computing capabilities of a true multi-core architecture with a processor ...

AMD Launches Four New Phenom X4 Processors

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

AMD today announced immediate availability of four new high-performance AMD Phenom X4 processors for PC users in search of the Ultimate Visual Experience. Led by the AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition processor, each CPU features true quad-core design, and when matched to AMD 790 series chipsets supports up to ...

AMD Launches World’s First x86 Triple-Core Processors

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

AMD today announced the availability of AMD Phenom X3 8000 series triple-core processors, providing gamers and digital media enthusiasts with exceptional performance at mainstream price points. AMD Phenom X3 processors are designed to improve multi-threaded application performance over dual-core processors at the same clock speed. As the world’s only triple-core ...

Zotac Announces New NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Motherboard for AMD

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Zotac has jumped the gun on this one a little bit, pre-announcing its new motherboard based on NVIDIA’s upcoming nForce 750a chipset. This will be the first AMD chipset from NVIDIA since the nForce 590 was released back in May 2006, and will offer features such as Hybrid SLI, Hybrid ...

WD Starts Offering New My Passport Elite Portable Drives

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Expanding on its popular portable storage offerings, WD today introduced its new My Passport Elite Portable USB Drives which are designed to make it easy to securely carry thousands of songs, videos or photos in style. Available now at select retailers and at WD's online store, the new fully-featured My ...

New 45nm Intel Quad-Core Xeon Server Processors Announced

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50GHz. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor L5400 Series takes advantage ...

ASUS EAH3850 Trinity Has Three RV670 Chips

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Here's what happens when two GPUs aren't enough. The latest ASUS EAH3850 Trinity works with three mobile RV670 chips in CrossFireX and is cooled by a combination of aluminum heatsinks, copper heatpipes and an enclosed water cooling system. The three 55nm GPUs all have their dedicated memory and make use ...

Sun Researching Super Fast Laser Processors

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

While shrinking transistor sizes to ever decreasing nanometer lengths is a popular topic in the industry today, several companies are working towards removing physical copper connects altogether, replacing them with super high speed laser connections As computers chip continue to decrease in fabrication size, manufacturers such as AMD and ...