Tag Archives: AMD

At the Distree XXL conference in Monaco, AMD have been chatting with KitGuru and they told us that they have shipped over a million Fusion chips already. While this is a positive number for AMD to be quoting at such an early stage, it all boils down whether AMD will …

Many of you will have already seen our exclusive MSI system coverage of the Fusion platform several weeks ago. For those of you looking for a svelte, attractive mobile platform based around this exciting new technology, then the Sony VAIO YB might just hit the spot. Sony first announced this …

Samsung Electronics issued a statement today, saying that any of their customers who bought an Intel system with the flawed chipset will be entitled to a full refund. Kitguru covered the news yesterday that Intel have found a design problem in the new chipset that is expected to cost it …

Following yesterday's announcement from Intel that there is a problem with the chipset necessary to support the 2nd generation Core processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge, a lot of eyes have turned to AMD. KitGuru's been asking the important questions. Yesterday, we were all struggling to remember the last time that Intel …

It has been 5 years and a global saturation programme to convince us that the “Future is Fusion”.  Now the product has launched, where is it hiding?  KitGuru dons a safari costume, picks up a set of high-powered binoculars and goes in search of AMD Fusion. In contrast to the …

Pcinlife have been able to get some images of AMD's upcoming entry level HD6570 and HD6670 cards that will be based on the 40nm Turks GPU. There are still not details on these new cards or the upcoming Antilles dual GPU solution from AMD, but they are expected in the …

Parallel processing is something which graphics cards do amazingly well and which regular CPUs are only slowly waking up to. AMD's developer kit has just been updated, so KitGuru decided to (in GPGPU's honour) multi-task by typing this story, while biting our nails, catching up on One Tree Hill and …

While some chip manufacturers nail everything to the mast of DX11, it seems that industry daddy Intel has a completely different view on the graphics technology. Given Microsoft enabled the world with DX11 way back in October 2009, why does Intel have such a different view and are they right …

Using KitGuru's ring of global spy satellites, we have managed to piece together the job description for Dirk Meyer's replacement as CEO. It does not really look like a normal job description, but we're certain that this the basis of AMD's search for an ideal candidate. KitGuru prepares to reveal …

Just seven hours after KitGuru broke the world exclusive story that Dirk Meyer was leaving AMD, the world's major press are now leaping on to the day's most important technology/corporate event and confirming that KitGuru got it 100% right, ahead of everyone. First to take up KitGuru's story was Steve …

Following on from KitGuru's exclusive revelation that there will be a change in leadership at AMD for 2011, a whole heap of new questions now have to be asked. The most important one of which must be, “Who will captain the good ship AMD into the competitive waters of the …

In a shocking revelation coming at the end of the most successful CES in more than a decade, KitGuru has learned that Dirk Meyer will not be in charge of AMD for 2011. Likely to be announced in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times over the next 72 hours, …

Gigabyte will be showcasing their new GA-E350N-USB3 Mini ITX motherboard at CES. This features upcoming AMD Fusion Technology. The motherboard features Direct X 11 support, Superspeed USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gbps as well as HDMI out and a host of Gigabyte features such as Ultra Durable 3 Classic, 3 x …

Public hero and driver guru Terry Makedon, known to everyone as ‘Catalyst Maker' will be moving jobs within AMD. He wanted to let our readers know of his plans and he is excited about what lies ahead in 2011. I had a chat with him earlier today. He told us …

This is a hot topic of debate among enthusiast users – which driver set is better? nVidia or AMD's ? It would be fair to say that years ago the scales would have been tipped favourably in nVidia's direction, but today is the situation reversed? Both sets of drivers have …

MSI have just announced the release of their new HD6970 and HD6950 graphics cards. While the cards are based on the reference design – like all the rest, they are getting a rather unique feature – a bundled copy of the excellent 3DMark 11. MSI, the world class manufacturer of …

With the release of the new HD6950 and HD6970 cards imminent, AMD are letting their customers download the Preview of the 10.12 Catalyst which features a new array of settings to enjoy. Description: We’re letting our customers try out the brand new Catalyst Control Center before it’s officially part of …

OK, the chances of the next XBox being called 720 are 50:50 at best but, for now, at least you all know what we're talking about. While the name and final design for the box and packaging might still be up in the air, the internals appear to have been …

Whenever a deal comes together, you can look at the component parts and make some kind of guess as to how the reduction was made possible. KitGuru gets tons of emailed offers every day, but this one grabbed our attention. Here's why. The deal itself is for a CPU with …

It's a topsy-turvy world in modern technology. Just because you have a monsterous lead one minute, that doesn't mean you won't be trailing in the blink of an eye. And so life is for AMD right now. KitGuru investigates. With the launch of the Radeon HD 5000 series in September …

AMD said yesterday that they are signing up to the open source MeeGo Linux project and that they are going to contribute ‘engineering resources' to ensure that their forthcoming APUs operate under the OS. AMD have made this announcement at the MeeGo conference in Dublin, Ireland. Their main rival, Intel …

AMD have spoken about the upcoming Flex FP floating point unit which is due to be incorporated into the Bulldozer Processor line up in servers and workstations next year. John Fruehe, AMD's director of product marketing said in his blog that the new technology delivers tremendous floating-point capabilities for technical …

The world of graphics has been a fantastic battleground over the past two months, with launch and counter-launch in quick succession. Our recent Radion HD 6800 reviews have drawn a huge amount of interest and KitGuru has responded by hunting high and low for a cool competition. We believe we …

AMD have released a new driver hotfix which features some performance improvements and bug fixes as well as support for their new Morphological Anti Aliasing feature. AMD Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix Features: OpenGL 4.1 beta support Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature Dead Rising 2 – Crossfire profile (Resolves negative …

AMD Chief Executive Dirk Meyer has been measuring the impact that Apple's iPad has had on netbooks and notebook sales. His final conclusion was that the tablet has been killing both. AMD are also waiting on more market development before committing R&D resources to developing tablet processors. Meyer said in …

KitGuru is asked more questions about the graphics market than anything else. Seems like you lot love a good fight – and the Heavyweight Championship is fought in the land of shaders. In the spirit of pushing things together until they get heated and critical mass is achieved, we sent …

We're surrounded by integrated graphics.   From Blackberries to iPhones, from netbooks to iPads. KitGuru spends more hours in a day using integrated graphics than discrete cards. As users, we represent the elite. The top 5% of users – with serious knowledge, skills and access to as much technology as we …

A couple of days ago KitGuru reported from IDF showcasing the new upcoming AMD CPU architecture with integrated graphics. The new  APU chip, codenamed ‘Zacate' looks to be a very exciting product with a low power requirement and a high level of performance. Zacate is based on dual Bobcat CPU …

KitGuru's earlier shot of the full blooded, desktop Fusion processor got a lot of folks salivating and a few of them spitting bile. For your delight and delictation, we flip it over and shoot it next to something hard and spicy. Phwoah. Life is busy already. With the launch of …

With the GTS450 ready to launch on Monday, AMD's price boffins have pulled out the graph paper and slide rules (we're thinking of you Matt) to determine what needs to be done in order to maintain its share of the DX11 pie. KitGuru gets splattered as the new prices get …