Mar 14 2008

AMD Begins to Ship Triple-Core Microprocessors to Personal Computer Makers.

Tag: ATI/AMD, ProcessorsEggie @ 4:26 pm

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it had begun shipments of its triple-core central processing units (CPUs) to large makers of personal computers (PCs). AMD Phenom 8000-series microprocessors will be available for end-users and small system makers at a later time.

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Mar 14 2008

AMD’s B3 Stepping Phenom Previewed, TLB Hardware Fix Tested

Tag: ATI/AMD, ProcessorsEggie @ 4:24 pm

AMD is looking to relaunch Phenom this year with a new revision of the core and higher clock speeds. This new core was designed specifically to address the TLB errata that crept up late last year. Anandtech managed to get their hands on a pre-release sample from one of AMD’s partners before final production samples shipped.

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Mar 14 2008

OCZ Technology introduces high-speed SATA II SSD

Tag: StorageEggie @ 4:16 pm

OCZ has entered the SSD race by announcing a series of ultra-fast OCZ SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drives. The series contains two models, 32GB and 64GB, both sporting 120MB/s read speed and 100MB/s write speed.

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Mar 14 2008

Nvidia Prepares 55nm G92 Against AMD RV770

Tag: Graphics, nVidiaEggie @ 4:11 pm

VR-Zone has learned that Nvidia is preparing to shrink G92 process technology from 65nm to 55nm to better compete against the upcoming RV770.

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Mar 14 2008

AMD loses market shares to NVIDIA in Q4

Tag: ATI/AMD, Graphics, nVidiaEggie @ 4:09 pm

According to a study made by Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA gained even more market shares in Q4, 2007. NVIDIA gained 7 percentages, from 64 to 71, leaving AMD with less than a third of the discrete graphics card market.

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