Intel may still be suffering the bad side of their so-called HD GPUs, but AMD is already ready to blow them away in Laptop market. AMD has announced a new chip is called the “Llano” processor which is not just a  CPU or GPU, instead, it’s a hybrid design that the chip company calls as an “Application Processor Unit,” or APU. Intel’s current offering for the Read further »

In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading. Sure, it was a great innovation but several years later was copied and re-branded as Hyper Threading (HT) by Intel #mce_temp_url#in it’s x86 processors. Intel claims it to produce two parallel threads without loss in performance. Well, it’s not true. Read further »

AMD is serious on Gaming, we don’t doubt. Today, AMD has announced their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which had been in news for a while known as “the fastest card ever created.” AMD is claiming that this graphics card breaks several older records. Besides being the fastest, it’s the one of the first to provide support for Read further »

The top chip designers had been in battlegrounds since decades. Finally, Intel and AMD on Thursday said they are willing to settle all the legal disputes including antitrust litigation, for $1.25 billion. The moment of joy was expressed by AMD CEO Dirk Meyer. He  said the settlement leads both companies will bring a  “new era”  in the chip industry. The two companies also sealed a five-year cross license deal and said they would give up any claims of breach from their previous license agreement. “While the relationship Read further »

ATI/AMD had recently produced some High-end Radeon HD 4890 1Ghz Radeon GPUs that knock Nvidia out of the top line. But no one really cared about users with limited budget. Thanks to ATi, they have this new lineup coming for budget gaming enthusiasts. The latest HD 5750 and HD 5770 offer Direct X 11 graphics under $150. Launched on October Read further »

Did you recently decided to make yourself a High-end Gaming Rig and ended-up in confusion of what to get. Whether to choose that new 1GHz AMD ATi Radeon HD or one of those of Nvidia CUDA/SLI powered GTX quad cores? Well, here is the solution- Get best of both worlds. Lucid last year promised to develop a chipset that would enable any motherboard to work with any combination of GPUs and still able to get 100 percent of the performance out of both. It took them more than a year to fight against laws of physics . Now, Read further »

Cloud computing is encouraging thin-clients. No longer you will need high processing power, storage on you local machines — If Cloud computing prevails. At this year’s CES, AMD demoed something new that shows how their platform technology can enable fully interactive cloud gaming. Sounds cool but what exactly is that? Cloud computing allows fully interactive game play from virtually any type of client over the Internet because the heavy lifting is being done “server side” in the cloud. The user logs on, clicks open a browser and then starts blasting away. No hours of game installation, no exotic authorization dances, just instant gratification That is the main story of cloud computing. Enough preaching but I had to let that fly because it’s a Read further »

AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The overhauled chip offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. According to AMD spokesperon Brent Kerby, companies that require low power processors often deploy dense, Greener Tech., large-scale IT projects where system energy trumps raw performance and every watt of saved power has a “significant” impact on the bottom line. What’s New ? It’s Greener – The 40-watt 6-core Opteron delivers the same processing capacity with about 30% less power consumption. Leaner – Read further »

We’ve heard of offloading CPU to execute intensively complex calculations to GPU (graphics processor unit). This finds application in Future web browsers with OpenGL, Graphics Applications, and all games. AMD has twisted the concept,  that takes the GPGPU idea and flips it on its head. AMD has announced the industry’s first OpenCL SDK for x86 processors. Coders can now write to the graphics API and run the resulting code on an AMD or Intel processor. AMD has announced the release of the Read further »

CPU has gone multicore, still we need GPU powered applications for all types of complex graphics. May it be Windows Aero interface or Your photo/video editing/re-sampling application, it now needs and is able to Utilize your GPU (provided you have supported one). Accelerated Graphics, totally absent from Web world, are now opening up for direct GPU access offloading CPU further. A new venture that includes  Mozilla, Google, and Opera Software — along with graphics processor leaders AMD (ATI) and Nvidia, announced this morning their intention to produce a royalty-free mechanism for producing hardware-assisted 3D graphics using JavaScript-enabled Web pages, for initial distribution during the first half of next year. The Internet Graphics are Read further »