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Acer’s latest supercomputer packs up to 25,000 cores
Acer has taken the world of supercomputers a few notches higher with their latest 177 TFLOPS ALPS. This cool computer, correction, supercomputer will take the world by storm as it steps in at Rank 42, among the world’s quickest computers. It will be used by National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) to perform complex calculations.…
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AMD Fusion A-series chips to compete with Intel’s Sandy Bridge offerings
AMD has unveiled their Fusion A-series chips which will particular favor desktops and notebooks and bring the goodness of quad-core processing and powerful graphics silicon for those machines. These chips sort of put together your PC’s computational prowess one a single piece of silicon i.e. the APU. The chipmaker claims that these chips can accomplish…
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Asus Eee PC 1015B and 1215B add AMD Fusion
With the existing wonders that are spun by AMD’s Fusion power you can imagine how cool the new Asus Eee PC 1015B and 1215B will be. CeBIT showed off the black and white renditions of the new Eee PC 1015B that also adds 1080p output, 1GHz dual-core/1.2GHz single-core option, ATI Radeon HD 6250 GPU, 1GB…
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Lenovo spoils for choice with Intel/AMD options with IdeaPad G-Series
Lenovo have brought into the picture the option of the ultimate choice. And we’re not talking about ‘i3’ and ‘i5’ now. We’re talking about an Intel/AMD option, made available with their IdeaPad G-Series offering. There are a total of five models to choose from. These models are all between the 14-inch and 17-inch size range.…
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Compulab fit-PC3 adds dual-core AMD to body less than an inch thick
There isn’t anything one could do but gape at the marvels of shrinking technology, with the fit-PC3 from Compulab. Armed with an AMD G-series T56N processor, (a.k.a. Fusion Zacate), dual-core processing at 1.6GHz, 18W TDP, Radeon HD 6310, no requirement of a fan for cooling, 4GB DDR3 memory, provisions for a 2.5-inch hard drive, HDMI…
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Details of Bobcat pour in from AMD
AMD have given much thought and reason to be speaking so boastfully and audibly about the Bobcat processor, or I hope they have. Because according to the blog posts by AMD’s director of Fusion Marketing, John Taylor, there isn’t anything specifically confidential about the upcoming release. He posted some images as well as specifications of…
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AMD ditches ATI goes out on its own. What does the world say? The sales figures will tell
Separation is always hardest on the kids and perhaps that’s how ATI fans will feel after hearing that AMD is no longer going to have an ATI brand. It’s been a long 4 years since the company bought ATI but it was just time to move on I guess. So AMD is going Big Boss…
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AMD stunned after Iran’s claim that they used the companies products for, ‘you know what’
I wouldn’t touch this one with a 50 foot pole but it’s one little 3 letter entry that hit me hard on the head. AMD. Yes! The company has found itself in an absurd situation, in which some dudes from Iran go about telling everyone how cool their processors are and how helpful they are…
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Wii’s success is AMD’s too
Chipmaker AMD has shipped 50 million units of the Nintendo Wii’s custom ATI-developed graphics chip, codenamed as “Hollywood”. AMD has stated that the GPU is the most successful AMD game console chip to date in terms of unit sales. AMD-owned ATI is also responsible for the Xbox 360’s GPU and was behind the “Flipper” GPU…
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Former Intel employee found guilty in sharing $1 Billion worth of trade secrets with AMD
Biswamhoan Pani, a former Intel Corp. Engineer, has been accused of stealing trade secrets worth more than $1 billion dollars from Intel while working for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Pani allegedly downloaded the files over a four-day period in June. Prosecutors acknowledged that AMD was unaware of Pani’s actions but said that Pani had planned…