AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.
The three-core Phenom X3s, first announced back in September 2007 just ahead of AMD arch-rival Intel’s bi-annual Developer Forum, are detailed just before the next IDF is due to kick off in Shanghai.
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ATI is the first graphics card manufacturer to have its graphics cards officially certified for the new DisplayPort interface. VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has officially certified ATI Radeon HD 3400, Radeon HD 3600, Radeon HD 3800 and ATI FireMV 2260, and the IGP AMD 780G for DisplayPort.
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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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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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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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Now that AMD has released the Catalyst 8.3 drivers, CrossFireX is finally out in the wild. This means that you will be free to combine any cards of the Radeon HD 3800 series; 3850, 3870 and 3870X2, mix and match any way you want. If you want to run three or four cards doesn’t matter, but it’s only available in Windows Vista.
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The overclocker, gprhellas, has claimed the 3DMark 03 world record with a pair of overclocked 3870X2’s using stock coolers. The cards were overclocked to 980/1150MHz and the processor was operating at 5747MHz and scored 132021 points.
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AMD has shown visitors samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at the CeBIT tradeshow. They are expected to be release second half of 2008…
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AMD has released the 780 series of chipsets. The AMD 780 replaces AMD 690G and will go up against Intel’s G35 and NVIDIA’s GeForce 8200 chipset. It seems to be a winner for AMD with dual monitor and hybrid crossfire support with lower power consumption
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IBM and AMD have announced world’s first working chip made with extreme ultra-violet (EUV) litography for the critical layers.
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