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AMD Launches 40W, Six-Core Opterons
AMD over the weekend added to its Opteron line with a new series boasting six-cores and a low 40W ACP. That’s the same power rating as AMD’s quad-core chips released in April of this year.
AMD Slowly Gains Share in GPU Market at Nvidia’s Expense
According to Jon Peddi research, growth in shipments of discrete videocards might mean the recession is winding down. It’s also good news for AMD, whose graphics market share has been on the rise thanks to a combination of stabilizing pricing and a hot-selling Radeon product line.
AMD to Officially Release Catalyst 9.8 Drivers Today
Those who attended Quakecon 2009 (as well as those who follow AMD’s blog) were able to get an early look at AMD’s Catalyst 9.8 drivers, and sometime today, the company is expected to release them to the general public.
AMD Demos DX11 Hardware Running at QuakeCon
DirectX 11 which will debut with the release of Windows 7 is arguably a pretty big deal. The new APIs will enjoy a much larger installed base than its predecessor thanks to backwards compatibility with Vista, and graphical improvements that were teased in DirectX 10 should see a pretty significant performance boost. With the release of Windows 7 nearly upon us, many have been holding off on GPU upgrades until the DX11 parts to start rolling off the line, and this time it appears AMD will beat Nvidia out of the gate with its “Evergreen” series.
AMD Ups the Ante in New 785G Graphics Chipset
We don’t often get excited over integrated graphics chipsets, but as far as that segment goes, AMD’s new 785G chipset looks awfully enticing, at least on paper.
AMD Announces OpenCL SDK for x86 Processors
GPGPU computing has been a frequent subject of tech chatter, the latest of which involves AMD’s release of the first OpenCL SDK for x86 CPUs. What this does is enable developers to take OpenCL code that would normally be written for GPUs and target CPUs instead.
