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    Nvidia sues Samsung, Qualcomm for GPU patents and seeks halt to phone sales

    From the last sentence, it looks like Nvidia may be unleashing more lawsuits against a lot more companies too, ugh... http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/09/nvidia-sues-samsung-seeks-to-halt-qualcomm-powered-galaxy-phones-shipments/
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    Most Powerful Baby ITX Video Cards (171 mm, 6.7")

    http://www.techpowerup.com/204507/sapphire-radeon-r9-285-itx-compact-edition-pictured.html http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2444&psn=000101&lid=1 The Sapphire tech specs indicate only a single 8 pin pci-e connector supplying 150...
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    AMD Radeon R9 Real Compute Potency Revealed!

    http://wccftech.com/amd-hawaii-gpu-die-shot-analyzed-fully-unlocked-chip-48-compute-units-3072-stream-processors/
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    AMD Graphics and APU Products For Fanboys And Fallon Guys And Gals

    AMD graphics and APUs are creating hard rock fanboys and provided a load of great gifts for Jimmy Fallon audience guys and gals last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mwe2FCxqJY Funny AMD Fanboy Song just released by Tech of Tomorrow! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIPggCgYK38
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    AMD Mining Devices Making Millionaires Worldwide

    Market for AMD graphics cards is rapidly expanding from just gaming/graphics to a worldwide boom in mining from everything like litecoins to genetic code research, so that consumers are now buying Radeons by the trunkloads...
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    AMD APU Summit Mantle Keynote And Tech Presentations Today

    AMD APU Summit Live Stream November 13, 2013 Wednesday 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm PST (4:15 pm - 4:45 pm EST) Keynote, Johan Andersson, Technical Director, Electronic Arts BattleField 4 Developer Rendering Battlefield 4 with Mantle In this keynote, Johan will discuss how the Frostbite 3...
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    AMD Fan Day BF4 Tourney $50K Prizes Nov 13 San Jose, CA

    This could be truest test of the new RX-290 graphics cards in multiplayer BF4 along with demos of Mantle acceleration at the APU summit on Nov 11-13! WHAT: AMD Fan Day San Jose – day of tournaments, contests and raffles and the world’s first Battlefield 4 tournament! WHEN: November...
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    AMD Revolutionary Mantle Tech Adopted by Industry Leading Developers

    AMD's Revolutionary Mantle Graphics API Adopted by Industry Leading Game Developers Cloud Imperium, Eidos-Montreal and Oxide Sneak previews of AMD Mantle technology will be shown at APU Summit developers conference November 11 to 13, 2013. SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2013) - AMD...
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    AMD TrueAudio Enables Enhanced User/Speech Recognition And Commands

    AMD Developer Summit on November 11-13 at Santa Clara, CA will have seminars on the TrueAudio technology and capabilities of the new R9-290X, 290 and R7-260X graphics cards. From the Max PC interview: Maximum PC: In one sentence TrueAudio is: AMD: A programmable audio core built into...
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    AMD Kaveri with SteamrollerB, GCN HSA, Audio Cop, PCI-3 SSD Features Surface

    AMD Kaveri APU advanced features and production details surfacing: http://wccftech.com/amd-launches-kaveri-apu-skus-february-2014-feature-set-a10-a8-apus-detailed/
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    AMD R9 Radeons Set New World Records

    AMD R9-290X hit new world records using lower core/mem clocks than Titan! :eek: Without LN2, EK waterblocks confirm that R9-290X is able to easily overclock to 1200/1600.
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    AMD Jaguar Kabinis Top Bestsellers with Toshiba Touch $399 and HP Voice Control $329

    AMD Jaguar Kabinis quad core A6-5200 APU based laptops are now the number one and number three bestsellers at Best Buy, outselling cheaper Chromebooks and Macbook notebooks. Search Best Buy by model number and best seller list for verification. Number one is Toshiba 15.6" Touchscreen quad...
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    ASUS, HIS, MSI, Sapphire, PowerColor, Gigabyte R9 displayed

    From Videocardz.com ASUS, HIS, MSI, Sapphire, PowerColor and Gigabyte R9 2xx lineup pictures According to the source, a special event took place in Sydney, where AMD showcased their new technologies and latest graphics cards. Also all major AIB partners were there as well to show their...
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    AMD's three new low-power chips pose potent challenge to Intel

    "AMD is showing off its latest round of APUs – accelerated processing units that combine compute and graphics cores on the same slice o' silicon – that it hopes will be reinforcements in its battle for the consumer market against its main competitor, Intel, especially at the low-power end of the...
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    HP touchscreen laptop with AMD Jaguar chips breaks $399 price barrier

    "Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399. The lineup includes three TouchSmart laptops with touchscreens and two non-touch laptops. The less expensive touch models, the $399...
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    Intel ready to buy AMD (Barron's Report)

    From Barron's -- Update: Calls in to sell-side folks have at this point turned up a couple of rumors. One is a persistent rumor that Intel (INTC) will buy AMD, which, according to one source who could not be quoted by name, might suddenly be possible because the field of computing is now...
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    Acer V5-122 Touch with AMD Jaguar A6-1450

    From Liliputing --- Acer is introducing a new notebook with a small screen and a relatively low price. The Acer Aspire V5-122 is a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD Temash processor. It’s expected to have a starting price of $450, which makes it one...
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    DX11 generation versus DX10

    http://vr-zone.com/forums/487528/why-directx-11-matters-pic-.html TWIMTBP? Boxy looking air filter versus a realistic rendering. Win 7 and DX11 make the 5870 easily outperform dual GPU DX10 cards.
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    AMD Phenom II crushes i7/i5 in a SINGLE NV gaming tests

    Anandtech updated their lab tests of the Core i7/i5/P55 and AMD Phenom II 965 and they find: "The i5/750 results actually surprised me. The system never once felt “slow” but the results do not lie. The i5/750 had its head served on a platter at stock speeds, primarily due to the...
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    $100 AMD X3 710 outclasses i7 and i5 in Linux benches

    Check out this review of the $100 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (Tri-core) against the i7 and i5 CPUs under Linux! Looks like Intel 'nailed it' all right... :cool: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_lynnfield&num=1
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    ATIC to Acquire Chartered Semiconductor (GF/AMD will have nine+ fabs)

    David Lammers, News Editor -- Semiconductor International, 9/6/2009 Just three months after news of a possible takeover emerged, Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Company LLC (ATIC) said it will pay ~$3.9B to acquire Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. (Singapore). The deal...
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    AMD 'Thuban' desktop 6-CPU engine in 2010

    Six-Core Desktop Processor Incoming from AMD – Sources [09/01/2009 02:52 PM] by Anton Shilov Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a desktop processor with six processing engines, sources familiar with the company’s plans revealed. The new central processing units (CPUs) will not be available...
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    AMD ATI DX11 and Codemasters go thermonuclear on competition

    AMD - the future is fusion and from the preview of their ATI RV870 GPU cards, they are going thermonuclear on their competition. http://vimeo.com/6182068
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    General purpose GPUs will rule the Earth

    http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1432998/general-purpose-gpus-rule-earth By Sylvie Barak Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 09:24 GENERAL PURPOSE graphics processing units (GPGPUs) should take the market by storm by the fourth quarter of this year, according to analysts, who reckon this...
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    AMD executing with more proficiency while Intel Atom cliffdiving and I7 flatlining

    AMD may be much smaller than Intel but they are recently executing pretty well: "AMD saw its market share in processor shipments reach 22.3 percent during the first quarter of 2009, gaining 4.6 percent of the market compared with the fourth quarter of 2008. Intel lost 4.7 percent of the...
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    Jetway MA3-79GDG COMBO DDR2/DDR3 motherboard

    Jetway put up several reviews of their AM2+/AM3 790GX/SB750 motherboard that allows either DDR2 or DDR3 memory. The most recent one has the reviewer overclocking a Phenom 9850 to nearly 3.5 Ghz using 1.346 vcore. If I am not mistaken that is close to 1 Ghz overclock on air and looks great for...
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    Hong Kong shops selling new AMD Phenom 955 $280

    Buyers in Hong Kong are posting pictures of their new AMD Phenom 955 CPUs purchased for around $280. Article indicates discounters in USA may price it around $250 to $275, although it could be around $280 to $300 on initial release...
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    Analysis of AMD/ATI Intel Nvidia transition to 32nm

    This blogger noted what AMD presented at an analyst meeting 11/2008 regarding future plans: * The Foundry Company also provided an update on its progress towards moving to a new 32nm manufacturing process for bulk and SOI production. The company confirmed that it will complete 32nm test chips...
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    AMD Team Finland teases new world record Phenom II AM3 CPU

    And just as a teaser, Team Finland's Samsa has posted a partial screen shot at the XtremeSystems Forums of an apparent Phenom II 3DMark05 session with "DDR3" ticked in the CPU window, but without showing a 3DMark05 score. Like the Core i7-975, AMD's AM3 socket boards supporting dual-channel DDR3...
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