[UPDATE: Are triple-core Phenom processors just failed quad-core units? I've been asked this question several times today and to get a definitive answer I approached Scott Carroll, AMD Public ...

AMD announce that is has begun shipping its new Llano processors to OEM manufacturers. The Llano APU (accelerated processor unit) is the latest of AMD’s Fusion core processors combining the core ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

Now shipping, the Socket F Opteron processors are AMD's first to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 memory. Rival Intel has been offering virtualization acceleration in some of its server chips ...

Sure! Here is the new description without any links: Description: Today is the embargo lift for the new amd Ryzen 3 CPUs, and ...

As expected, the first iteration of products AMD launched run at 2 GHz (standard-performance variant) and 1.9 GHz (“HE” energy-efficient variant) speeds, with a 2.5-GHz speed bin “coming in December” ...

Upgradeability from dual- to quad-core processors is expected to be as straightforward as it was from single- to dual-core with AMD, with unchanged thermal and electrical envelopes. The demonstration ...

All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4x4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We ...

Six-core processors have finally overtaken quad-core chips as the most popular type of CPU for PC gamers. Valve’s recently released Steam Hardware Survey for March has revealed that the period of ...

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Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks ...

Digitimes is reporting that Intel is about to pop a series of cheap quad core processors (Q8000) to slap back at AMD’s budget triple core offerings. The first will be the Core 2 Quad 8200, which’ll ...