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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October 2014Oct 21, 2014 - in Reviews
This month witnesses the introduction of new budget-oriented AMD Athlon X4 860K and Intel Pentium G3250 processors, along with a surprising number of price adjustments from both camps. Even still, our list of recommendations goes relatively unscathed.
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AMD FX-8370E Review: Pulling The Handbrake For More EfficiencySep 22, 2014 - in Reviews
Going more slowly is more efficient. That’s what AMD must have thought when they designed its new FX-8370E processor, thus closing a gap in the company's line-up. We evaluate whether this CPU is really more efficient and what happens when we overclock it.
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AMD Updates Desktop FX Processor Line With Three New CPUs, Price CutsSep 2, 2014 - in News
AMD Now Offers Eight-Core Processors For 95-Watt Motherboards, providing a low-budget upgrade path to respectable multi-threading performance. In addition, the new FX-8370 processor has arrived, and prices have been cut across the board.
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AMD FX-7600P Kaveri Review: FX Rides Again...In A Mobile APU?Jun 4, 2014 - in Reviews
We had a chance to play with AMD's new mobile flavor of the Kaveri APU. While it sheds some of its desktop-related limitations, will it be able to take the fight to Intel's stronghold, the Notebook space?
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AMD A10-7850K And A8-7600: Kaveri Gives Us A Taste Of HSAJan 16, 2014 - in Reviews
We've spent the days following CES benchmarking two of AMD's new Kaveri-based APUs. Do the Steamroller x86 architecture, GCN graphics design, and HSA-oriented features impress, or do they come up short against Intel's value-oriented Haswell-based parts?
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AMD Embedded Product 2014 Roadmap Packs ARM, x86 SoCSep 11, 2013 - in News
AMD's up to more than just desktop and laptop chips. It has a full spectrum of technologies for the embedded market ahead.
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AMD Intros Dual-Core 6W SoC for Fanless DevicesJul 31, 2013 - in News
Here's a new embedded APU from AMD that will enable fanless devices.
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Gaming Shoot-Out: 18 CPUs And APUs Under $200, BenchmarkedFeb 11, 2013 - in Reviews
Now that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between frames.
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Report: AMD Richland APUs Will Hit Shelves March 19thFeb 6, 2013 - in News
More information has been revealed regarding the launch dates of AMDs upcoming APUs and CPUs.
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Memory Scaling, AMD's Trinity APUs, And Game PerformanceFeb 3, 2013 - in Reviews
When it comes to gaming, the integrated Radeon on AMD's Trinity architecture crushes the HD Graphics 4000 engine native to Intel's fastest Ivy Bridge CPU. But we want to make a good thing better. How much does fast memory help boost an APU's performance?
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UPDATE: AMD Drops Price of Bulldozer Based FX-4130 CPUJan 31, 2013 - in News
A new price point for a Zambezi based part on the Bulldozer architecture.
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AMD Richland APU Will Boost up to 4.4GHzJan 29, 2013 - in News
More details emerge on AMD's next generation of APUs codenamed 'Richland,' which will be released during Q2 2013.
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New Details Uncovered on AMD Richland APUsJan 24, 2013 - in News
More details emerge on AMD's next generation of APUs codenamed 'Richland', which will be released during Q2 2013.
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FX Vs. Core i7: Exploring CPU Bottlenecks And AMD CrossFireJan 23, 2013 - in Reviews
AMD and Intel continue serving up increasingly faster CPUs. But graphics card performance is accelerating even faster. Is there still such a thing as processor-bound gaming? We take two Radeon HD 7970s, high-end desktop CPUs, and a few games to find out.
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AMD Reports 2012 Loss of $1.18 Billion, While IBM ProfitsJan 23, 2013 - in News
Semiconductor firm reported net loss of nearly half a billion dollars during 2012's fourth quarter.
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AMD Hires Chip Veterans to "Move Beyond PC"Jan 22, 2013 - in News
AMD has hired former Qualcomm and Apple engineers.
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PC Processor Sales Expected to Grow Just Just 1.6% in 2013Jan 21, 2013 - in News
Market researchers do not believe that the market conditions for microprocessor makers will improve anytime soon.
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AMD Accuses Former Managers of Stealing Secrets for NvidiaJan 16, 2013 - in News
AMD was granted a temporary restraining order against four former employees on allegations of trade secret misappropriation and trade secret transfer as well as "strategic employee solicitation". All four individuals are now employed by Nvidia.
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AMD Announces World's First x86 Quad-Core System-on-ChipJan 10, 2013 - in News
APUs codenamed "Temash" and "Kabini".
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Report: AMD's Richland Flagship Will Be A10 6800K APUJan 9, 2013 - in News
AMD's Richland APUs, the successors of the current Trinity line, will not launch until early summer, but it appears that the company will continue its familiar sequence numbering system for the processors.
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AMD Expected to Launch Kabini and Temash in Q1 2013Jan 8, 2013 - in News
AMD is reportedly accelerating its roadmap of low-power processors.
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AMD Names New Chief Financial OfficerJan 3, 2013 - in News
Devinder Kumar will remain as AMD's chief financial officer.
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AMD Rumored to Phase Out Vision BrandingDec 31, 2012 - in News
AMD's no stranger to phasing out brands.
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AMD to Launch 95 Watt FX-8300 CPUDec 31, 2012 - in News
AMD is expected to launch its FX-8300 8-core processor tomorrow.
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AMD Loses Chief Engineer Michael Goddard to SamsungDec 28, 2012 - in News
The exodus of key employees at AMD continues.
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AMD's China Division Executive Departs CompanyDec 23, 2012 - in News
AMD has lost another key executive. The company confirmed the departure of David Tang, who was senior vice president and president of Greater China region for the company.
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CPU Charts 2012: 86 Processors From AMD And Intel, TestedDec 23, 2012 - in Reviews
Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside!
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AMD Slams Intel's Atom S Processor: ''Too Little, Too Late''Dec 11, 2012 - in News
AMD reacted to Intel's announcement of its Atom S microserver processor today with a rather interesting email that was sent out to media.
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Analysts, Vendors Discuss Future of Mobile Processing PowerDec 10, 2012 - in News
Vendors are said to be moving focus away from reliance on mobile processors.
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AMD Scaling Back Chip Purchases from GlobalFoundriesDec 7, 2012 - in News
To save money, AMD is reducing its wafer order agreement with Globalfoundries.