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 2/7/2012LG's G6 Series: A New Kind of Google TV Partnership
A common feature in some of the world's most succesful companies is an evangelist. Sometimes that person will be a founder or CEO, other times it will be a...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/6/2012Clevo Refreshes X7200 With X79-Based P270WM, AVADirect First in Line
Clevo's venerable X7200 notebook has gotten more than a little long in the tooth. The desktop hardware-based behemoth has been sporting the X58 chipset and support for LGA1366 processors...
9 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/6/2012Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Gets Ice Cream Sandwich in May
Lenovo will be rolling out its official Ice Cream Sandwich build for the ThinkPad Tablet in May of this year, the company announced via the tablet's product page. The tablet...
1 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/6/2012CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus 4.0.4 Update Changes Signal Reporting
Back when the Verizon CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus released, there was much talk of a signal related issue, which we investigated. The findings back then were that there was nothing...
6 by Brian Klug on 2/6/2012Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in a Plane Crash
Micron's long time CEO, Steve Appleton, has died in a plane crash at the age of 51 at the Boise Airport on Friday morning. He was reportedly flying a...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 2/4/2012AMD: 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 2/3/2012Motorola Droid RAZR, RAZR MAXX Update Enables CDRX for Better LTE Battery Life
While we don't usually cover every software update on every platform, I thought it worth noting something special about the new update which will begin going out shortly to...
7 by Brian Klug on 2/3/2012AMD'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 2/2/2012Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter Now Available
A few weeks ago at CES 2012, Seagate showcased their GoFlex Thunderbolt adapters. They come in two flavors: the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter takes 3.5" drives, requires an external...
18 by Kristian Vättö on 2/2/2012AMD 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 2/2/2012AMD'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 2/2/2012AMD'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 2/2/2012AMD & 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 2/2/2012What 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 2/2/2012AMD 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 2/2/2012AMD: 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 2/2/2012AMD'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 2/2/2012AMD 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 2/2/2012AMD 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