It seems like AMD’s Phenom brand is not yet ready to pass into oblivion, as it now seems like the chip maker is preparing a new series of eight-core CPUs that will use this moniker. The chips have popped up in the support list of some Jetway and ECS motherboards , and according to...
Microsoft’s recent patch for AMD Bulldozer processors was expected to bring a significant performance boost to CPUs using this architecture, but early tests seem to suggest that in most cases the “fix” doesn’t deliver any benefits to systems using it. Soon after the patch was announced, SweClockers has started testing it to see how...
In 2013 Intel will introduce a new processor architecture known under the code-name of Haswell and a recent report has come to suggest that chips built using this new technology could include more than one graphics cores. According to an unnamed source cited by VR-Zone, Intel believes that such an approach would enable it...
AMD seems to have troubles with the availability of its A-Series APUs based on the Llano architecture as some of these 32nm chips are hard to find in stock at most online or brick and mortar retailers leading us to believe that Globalfoundries’ 32nm fabrication issues are to blame. The chips that are hardest...
Just a few more days are left until AMD will make official its highly anticipated FX-Series of desktop processors, and the company’s flagship CPU based on the Bulldozer architecture, the FX-8150, was just put through a series of extensive benchmarks that compare its performance with that of the Core i7-2600K. The FX-8150 is the...
The fourth quarter of this year will mark the introduction of a new series of Opteron 6000-series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture and a recent leak has come to divulge the names, as well as the specs, of some of these upcoming AMD CPUs.Back in July, Gateway also leaked four Opteron server chips...
