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Items tagged with 'Piledriver'

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AMD Launches World’s First Desktop Processor At 5GHz, 8-Core AMD FX-9590 Unveiled

AMD Launches World’s First Desktop Processor At 5GHz, 8-Core AMD FX-9590 Unveiled

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - by Seth Colaner in News
AMD is stepping up its efforts on the CPU front by announcing two new FX-series chips, the FX-9590 and FX-9370. The company claims that the FX-9590 is the world’s first commercially available processor clocked at 5GHz (Max Turbo), and the FX-9370 isn’t far behind at 4.7GHz(Max Turbo). Based on the Piledriver... Read More
AMD Intros Two New Additions To FX Processor Lineup

AMD Intros Two New Additions To FX Processor Lineup

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - by Seth Colaner in News
AMD announced a pair of new FX-series processors, the AMD FX-4350 and AMD FX-6350, which will serve to add a couple of new SKUs to the Piledriver/Vishera mix. Previously, AMD’s latest crop of high-end desktop chips consisted of the 8-core FX-8350 and FX-8320, the 6-core FX-6300, and the 4-core FX-4300. The FX-4350... Read More
New PS4 Specs Leak, Hint At Tantalizing Possibilities

New PS4 Specs Leak, Hint At Tantalizing Possibilities

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - by Joel Hruska in News
There have been a number of spec leaks around the PS4 and Xbox 720 in the last few days, including updated information on what the latest dev kits from Sony contain. We'll cover these first, courtesy of Kotaku and then offer our own analysis, HotHardware style. According to Kotaku, the latest dev kits for Sony's PS4 contain:... Read More
AMD Took Q4 Hammering as Gross Margins Collapsed, Sales Fell

AMD Took Q4 Hammering as Gross Margins Collapsed, Sales Fell

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - by Joel Hruska in News
AMD's fourth quarter results for 2012 are in, and they're as bad as everyone has been expecting. The only good news is that since everyone has been expecting it, the company's stock shouldn't take too hard a hammering. Total revenue for the year was $5.42B, down 17.5% year-on-year. Gross margins fell from 45% to 23% thanks... Read More
AMD Launches New Piledriver-Based Opteron 6300 Family

AMD Launches New Piledriver-Based Opteron 6300 Family

Monday, November 05, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
AMD's new Piledriver-based Opterons are launching today, completing a product refresh that the company began last spring with its Trinity APUs. The new 12 & 16-core Piledriver parts are debuting as the Opteron 6300 series. Originally, AMD had planned to add still more cores with this refresh and had anticipated a line... Read More
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core CPU Review

AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core CPU Review

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - by Marco Chiappetta in Processors
Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact, in the conclusion of our launch article featuring the AMD FX-8150, we posted an AMD-provided slide that... Read More
AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core CPU Review

AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core CPU Review

Monday, October 22, 2012 - by Marco Chiappetta in News
Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact, in the conclusion of our launch article featuring the AMD FX-8150, we posted an AMD-provided slide that showed... Read More
AMD’s Next Gen Piledriver CPU Architecture Pre-Order Info Leaks To The Web

AMD’s Next Gen Piledriver CPU Architecture Pre-Order Info Leaks To The Web

Sunday, September 23, 2012 - by Seth Colaner in News
AMD’s Bulldozer chips were, to put it bluntly, a disappointment, but the company is hoping that its upcoming Piledriver, the second generation of the Bulldozer processors, will deliver on their promised performance even as the third generation of the chips (Steamroller) looms on the horizon. In advance of the official... Read More
Multiple Rivals Poise To Attack Intel As Chip Giant Kicks Off IDF

Multiple Rivals Poise To Attack Intel As Chip Giant Kicks Off IDF

Monday, September 10, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) starts on Tuesday, and the chip manufacturer is expected to discuss its Ivy Bridge refresh, Haswell, talk about its upcoming 32nm tablet platform, Clover Trail, and possibly share a few details on its 22nm Atom SOC's. Performance per watt is going to be a major focus at IDF this year; Haswell... Read More
AMD's Bulldozer Replacement, Vishera, May Launch In October

AMD's Bulldozer Replacement, Vishera, May Launch In October

Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
Rumor around the 'Net is that AMD's Bulldozer follow-up, codenamed Vishera, could drop in early Q4 this year. The new AMD 8350, as its known, will supposedly be a four-module/eight-core design clocked at 4GHz (4.2GHz Turbo Mode) with a 125W TDP. Vishera could potentially deliver what last year's Bulldozer didn't; AMD's... Read More
AMD Expands Server Customer Base, Buys Its Own Server OEM

AMD Expands Server Customer Base, Buys Its Own Server OEM

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
AMD's CEO, Rory Read, has made no secret of his plans to take the company in new and different directions, but the company's server announcement today caught the market by surprise. Sunnyvale has purchased SeaMicro in a deal worth ~$330 million, the majority of which ($281M) will be paid in cash. The acquisition brings... Read More
AMD Launches New Bulldozer CPUs At Substantially Higher Clockspeeds, TDPs

AMD Launches New Bulldozer CPUs At Substantially Higher Clockspeeds, TDPs

Monday, February 27, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
Ever since Bulldozer's less-than-spectacular debut, enthusiasts and investors have watched to see if the company would follow up with faster chips that improved overall performance. That's finally started to happen; AMD announced two new chips today -- the quad-core FX-4170 with a 4.2GHz base clock speed / 4.3GHz Turbo... Read More
AMD Will Push 'Piledriver' Beyond 4GHz Using Resonant Clock Mesh Technology

AMD Will Push 'Piledriver' Beyond 4GHz Using Resonant Clock Mesh Technology

Saturday, February 25, 2012 - by Paul Lilly in News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to use resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor to push its Piledriver processor line to 4GHz and beyond, the company announced at the International Solid State Circuits Conferences (ISSCC) in San Francisco. Cyclos is the only supplier of resonant clock mesh IP,... Read More
AMD's Financial Analyst Day: Brazos 2.0, 28nm CPUs, Future SoC's

AMD's Financial Analyst Day: Brazos 2.0, 28nm CPUs, Future SoC's

Thursday, February 02, 2012 - by Joel Hruska in News
Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day -- and it's been a long time coming. Questions about the company's future have been piling up since Bulldozer launched and AMD layed off much of its PR/marketing teams. Today, the company lifted the veil on what it's planning for 2012. In graphics, the roadmap is straightforward -- AMD's... Read More
Leaked Slide Claims To Spill Details On Next-Gen Bulldozer Processor

Leaked Slide Claims To Spill Details On Next-Gen Bulldozer Processor

Monday, October 03, 2011 - by Joel Hruska in News
A slide leaked to occasionally-accurate Turkish website Donahim Haber purports to showcase some of the features of AMD's next-generation Bulldozer core, codenamed 'Piledriver.'  This is the same CPU core the company's upcoming 'Trinity' mobile APU will be based on. Other leaked slides have implied that Trinity will... Read More
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