Update to High Bandwidth Memory DRAM posted
Memory Stacking will go beyond Fuji
AMD’s Fuji was one of the first GPUs to use JEDEC’s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM standard and now JEDEC has released an update which should attract others.
Sapphire issues R9 Fury card
Claims the highest possible performance
Sapphire has released a new graphics card based upon AMD's R9 Fury and claims that it has been tuned for the "the highest possible performance, quiet operation and exceptional overclocking capabilities" of any card based upon this GPU.
AMD releases new A10-7890K flagship APU
New FM2+ and AM3+ moterboards incoming as well
During CES 2016 show, AMD has announced the new flagship Kaveri-based APU, the AMD A10-7890K, as well as an announced that new FM2+ and AM3+ motherboards with USB 3.1 and M.2 should be incoming.
Intel claims most don’t need a GPU
Integrated graphics have nearly caught up
Chipzilla claims that casual or mainstream gamers no longer need a discrete graphics card, because integrated graphics have nearly caught up.
AMD will not support coreboot on Zen
Ironically caused by the death of Sage
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that AMD will not support CoreBoot on Zen.
AMD significantly cuts the R9 Nano price
Now officially priced at US $499
In a rather surprising move, AMD has now cut the price of its mini-ITX Radeon R9 Nano graphics card down to US $499, which puts it at the same price as the Radeon Fury (non-X).
Polaris GPUs are shipping
Sooner than expected
While AMD recently announced its fourth generation GCN architecture, known as Polaris, at the CES 2016, it was keeping quiet on a launch date.
AMD is so proud of its stock cooler that it is demoing it
Wraith might make only a spectral appearance
Most stock CPU coolers are junked when the chip is delivered and replaced with something which is a little more sexy and does not sound like a B52 taking off.
Investors get bullish about AMD
Shares trading well
Over the Christmas break AMD experienced some brisk trading in its shares indicating that the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street think the company will stir to life this year.
AMD official introduces 14nm Polaris architecture
We saw it running
AMD thinks that first week of 2016 is the right time to introduce the next generation 14nm architecture which is codenamed Polaris.