AMD adds mobile processor to Athlon 64 lineup
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2GHz chip is the highest performing processor in AMD's family of low-power Mobile AMD Athlon 64 products.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expanded its Mobile Sempron processor family with a higher performing model and integrated EVP anti virus technology.
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AMD&#39;s dual-core AMD64 chips will provide instructions compatible with Intel&#39;s SSE 3 technology, the chip maker announced at the Microprocessor Forum yesterday.
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InfoWorld - Samsung Electronics will update its mobile processor lineup with a new chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video, the company said Sunday.
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AMD formally welcomed its Athlon 64 processor family into the world of PCI Express, touting the availability of chipsets that support the new add-in card format.
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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday provided further details about its&#160;next-generation Puma platform&#160;for notebook PCs, which is designed to maximize battery life while meeting the heavy graphics performance demanded by the Windows Vista OS.The Puma platform will come with processors named Turion Ultra, originally&#160;codenamed Griffin, and include Hybrid Graphics Technology, which boosts the platform&#39;s graphics performance by running both the integrated graphics processor and discrete graphics together.Discrete graphics cards, which are usually plugged into a slot on the motherboard, usually provide more video memory and graphics processing power than integrated graphics processors, which are included on a system&#39;s motherboard.The platform will include the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 discrete graphics card, which is specially designed to work with an integrated graphics card to either crunch extreme graphics or to get better system performance-per-watt, said Scott Shutter, mobile division brand manager at AMD.AMD will also launch ATI PowerXpress for the Puma platform, which allows users to switch between integrated and discrete graphics dynamically without rebooting their notebook. This allows the discrete graphics card to be used for graphics intensive applications when under AC power, and the integrated graphics to be used for extended battery life when on the go, said Bahr Mahony, division marketing manager with AMD&#39;s mobile processor group.The platform will fully support DirectX 10.1, Microsoft&#39;s 3D graphics platform.The hybrid graphics capabilities will ship with notebooks based on the Puma platform in the middle of this year, Shutter said. Though intended to be a centerpiece of the Puma platform, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 graphics card is already separately shipping with Asus systems, according to AMD. Pricing information was not available.A future Puma platform capability will include support for ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology with ATI PowerXpress, allowing users to switch between an integrated graphics card and a discrete graphics card based on a system&#39;s multimedia requirement. AMD will launch this technology toward the end of the year.The combination of the CPU and graphics processing unit capabilities in the Puma platform is one more step towards achieving Fusion, a platform that merges a CPU and graphics processing unit on a single piece of silicon, Shutter said. The Fusion platform is aimed for release in 2009. The company last year launched the &#39;Spider&#39; platform, which combines the company&#39;s Phenom quad-core process, graphics cards and chipsets in one package.Notebooks based on the Puma platform will be able to handle high-definition HD DVD and Blu-ray movie playback through its Avivo HD technology, which offloads the processing of high-definition data decoding from the CPU to the graphics processing unit, Shutter said. The low CPU utilization allows a notebook to perform better.The CPU has 2M bytes of on-board cache, an upgrade from earlier Turion Rev G processors, which had 1M byte of cache, Shutter said. The system also throttles down bandwidth between cores based on system usage and performance to increase a notebook&#39;s battery life.Boot times and program launch times in Puma notebooks will improve with on-board flash technology called HyperFlash, Shutter said. The flash technology will store important bits of information needed to boot a system quicker, reducing lag time usually associated with reading data from hard drives. It will be available on the board, or as a separate modules for motherboards.Shutter didn&#39;t reveal further details about Turion Ultra&#39;s initial clock speeds.
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New Athlon 64 processors will compete with Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.
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US chipmaker AMD on Monday introduced a faster mobile chip, Athlon 64 processor 3000+, for thin and light notebook computers. The new chip enables a powerful 32-bit computing
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AMD has expanded its family of low-voltage mobile processors designed to offer high performance, security and mobility for thin and light notebooks.
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AMD64 is a new computing platform that extends the ubiquitous x86 architecture to accommodate 64-bit processing. Formerly known as x86-64, AMDâs enhancements to the x86 architecture allow users of laptops
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AMD yesterday unveiled plans to release a triple-core Phenom desktop processor early next year, an announcement that appeared to be aimed at upstaging rival Intel ahead of this week's Intel Developer Forum.
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AMD (Quote, Chart) has climbed aboard the PCI Express train with its latest generation of Athlon64 processors, the company said. The Sunnyvale, Calif.
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Advanced Micro Devices gave further details of its&#160;upcoming Fusion processor, saying it will be based on the design of a microprocessor used in the desktops currently shipping to enthusiast PC users such as gamers.The Fusion chip, which will combine a graphics processing unit and CPU on one chip, will be a redesign of the company&#39;s current&#160;Phenom processor, said Patrick Moorhead, vice president of advanced marketing at AMD, in an interview. However, the Fusion chip will witness significant design changes from the current iteration of Phenom, Moorhead said.The Fusion chip, code-named Swift, will be shrunk from the Phenom core and be optimized for use in a notebook, Moorhead said. The optimization will focus on making the chip more power-efficient while increasing graphics capabilities, Moorhead said.The graphics processing unit on the Fusion chip will include multiple &quot;mini-cores&quot; that breaks down code from a program, like 3-D games, to process data faster, said John Taylor, an AMD spokesman. Fusion&#39;s graphics processor will be based on a graphics card AMD plans to release in the near future, Taylor said, declining to give details.The first Fusion chips will be released as dual-core CPUs for notebooks, followed by quad-core CPUs for notebooks, Moorhead said. The dual-core notebook processors will be available in the second half of 2009, said John Taylor, an AMD spokesman. The company didn&#39;t provide a timeline for the quad-core chips.Fusion chips will also be released eventually for desktops, Taylor said, although he declined to comment on a release date.Originally released as part of the &quot;Spider&quot; multimedia platform last year, the Phenom processor has an integrated memory controller, cache, and four cores on a single chip. Currently available in speeds up to 2.3GHz, AMD earlier this month delayed the shipment of the faster Phenom 9700 and 9900 quad-core processors to the second quarter. The company is due to ship a triple-core Phenom processor later this year.The Fusion CPU is part of Project Shrike, the next-generation platform that will be an upgrade to the company&#39;s upcoming Puma platform. It includes the Turion Ultra processor, code-named Griffin. The Puma platform boosts a system&#39;s graphics performance by running both the integrated graphics processor and a graphics card attached to the motherboard together.Like Puma, additional graphics cards can be attached to boost performance of systems based on Project Shrike, Taylor said.Fusion chips will be made using AMD&#39;s 45-nanometer production technology, said Mario Rivas, executive vice president of the computing products group, during a meeting in December.Fusion isn&#39;t being designed for ultramobile PCs, Moorhead said. &quot;The jury is still out on whether the UMPC market has legs or not. But we&#39;ll see,&quot; Moorhead said.Plans to launch the Fusion chip were announced when AMD bought ATI for US$5.4 billion in 2006. The acquisition of ATI was also viewed as a potent weapon in AMD&#39;s attempt to dent Intel&#39;s domination of the x86 processor market. However, AMD has struggled lately, announcing five straight quarterly losses, delaying processor shipments, and falling behind Intel in chip production.Intel has already rolled out more than 30 Penryn-based chips based on the 45-nanometer process, with AMD still producing chips using the older 65-nm process.
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AMD is to outsource AMD64 processor production - or at least a portion of it - the chip maker announced today. The move is one part of a larger deal struck with Singapore&#39;s Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Acer America Corp. on Monday introduced a notebook based on the 64-bit mobile processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The Ferrari 3400, which runs on the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 for thin and
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Advanced Micro Devices announces faster Athlon 64 X2, cooler single-core Athlon 64 CPUs.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will implement the strained silicon manufacturing technique on its upcoming 90-nanometer processors as well as 130-nanometer processors released this quarter, an AMD spokesman said Friday.