AMD's 2016 GPU doubles performance per watt
Published in Graphics
Monday, 19 October 2015 09:41

AMD's 2016 GPU doubles performance per watt


CEO confirms spec

Troubled AMD's CEO has been attempting to rally the troops with further promises about how good things are going to be next year.  

ARM chips no help to AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 16 October 2015 13:19

ARM chips no help to AMD


Not doing as well as expected

Buried in the AMD results was a note which seemed to hint that AMD's plan to flog ARM based server chips was not going very well.

More poor results from AMD
Published in News
Friday, 16 October 2015 09:59

More poor results from AMD


Has to flog plant 

AMD's woes are deepening as its profits continue to fall and it lacks any high tech product to pull its nadgers out of the fire.

AMD releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta drivers
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 15 October 2015 10:27

AMD releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta drivers


DirectX 12 optimisations for Ashes of the Singularity

AMD has released its latest Catalyst 15.10 Beta drivers which, among other fixes and improvements, brings DirectX 12 optimisations to the Ashes of the Singularity game.

AMD loses top brain to Nvidia
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 14 October 2015 10:30

AMD loses top brain to Nvidia


Phil Rogers defects

AMD is reeling after the high profile exit of one its top CPU brains Phil to rival Nvidia.

Could Samsung be the new Intel?
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 07 October 2015 14:09

Could Samsung be the new Intel?


Better than being the new Apple

Samsung is not doing that well in smartphones. To be fair, no one is, but Samsung has the ability to become something much more interesting – it could replace AMD as Intel's rival.

AMD flogs Intel friendly DDR4 memory
Published in News
Tuesday, 06 October 2015 12:41

AMD flogs Intel friendly DDR4 memory


They don't work on AMD platforms of course

AMD has started selling Radeon DDR4 memory modules which only work on Intel Z170 chipsets and derivatives.

AMD Fiji-based dual-GPU could be called Radeon R9 Gemini
Published in Graphics


Spotted in shipping manifest

While we already knew that AMD is working on a Fiji-based dual-GPU flagship graphics card, the newest leak from a shipping manifest suggest that AMD might name it as the Radeon R9 Gemini.

More AMD PRO APUs details
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 05 October 2015 10:24

More AMD PRO APUs details


Consumer desktop and mobile products

Last week AMD announced its next generation PRO series APUs for business desktop and notebook PCs and now some more details have come to light.

AMD FirePro mobile chips go into Dell's new Precision workstations
Published in AI


In new Dell Precision 3510, 7510 and 7710

AMD was quite keen to announce that Dell has chosen AMD's new FirePro mobile workstation graphics cards for its new Dell Precision 3510, 7510 and 7710 series mobile workstation notebooks, including the FirePro W7170M, FirePro W5170M and the AMD FirePro W5130M.