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AMD to introduce new embedded APUs by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on May 13, 2012AMD is gearing up to introduce Trinity next week and it seems it will also throw a few embedded parts in the mix.We must point out that we don’t keep a close eye on the embedded market, mainly because you, or dear readers, simply don’t care about...

Report: AMD Launching Trinity APUs Soon; Desktop in August by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on May 13, 2012We've been getting a bit impatient when it comes to waiting for AMD's Trinity APUs to arrive. Lucky for us, the latest scuttlebutt has the company's latest A series APUs launching this month. AMD confirmed in mid-April that it had started shipping T...

AMD Fusion Developer Summit Starts This June by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Apr 18, 2012AMD has announced the direction of AFDS, or AMD Fusion Developer Summit. AMD plans for the second annual summit to focus on “next generation software developments, heterogeneous computing and programming methods using industry-standard application...

AMD Virgo Trinity cores in production by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Apr 8, 2012Good news for people who are waiting to upgrade to AMD’s Virgo FM2 platform and Trinity processors. AMD has notified its partners that some new parts are already in production. The most notable new processor is the A10 5800K that went out of the pr...

Three new Piledriver server code names appear by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012AMD FAD 2012: Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Delhi are PiledriversAMD is now talking server roadmaps, and another crop of new names is revealed. This time we have Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Delhi server CPUs.F1 tracks or code names?Not much to say here, all three...

AMD reveals new client code names by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012AMD is talking about client and graphics now, with a few new code names outed. Here are the relevant points.This is going to cause FUD The two things that we knew were Kaveri, the follow on to Trinity, and Kabini, the follow up to the now dead Wichit...

AMD Celebrates Shipment of Over Thirty Million Fusion APUs by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Jan 26, 2012Although Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) and Bulldozer micro-architecture are in many ways revolutionary, Advanced Micro Devices has failed to take a major advantage of its latest technologies in 2011, based on the recent annual financial...

Llano shortage might be a thing of the past by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Dec 24, 2011The lengthy AMD Llano shortage could be coming to an end, months after the original A6- and A8- series APUs were launched. Analyst Nathan Brookwood points to the launch of several new variants as s telltale sign of improved production, but it will ta...

Quick Note: AMD's Powers up With Stronger, Overclockable "Fusion" CPUs by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Dec 24, 2011Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has had a mixture of bad news and good news of late. On the plus side it finally managed to get its Sandy Bridge competitor, Bulldozer, out the door (though it wasn't the performance monster most were hoping for).

AMD Raises the Bar on Desktop and Notebook A-Series APUs by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Dec 24, 2011AMD today updated its A-Series line-up of desktop and notebook Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), further improving its top-performing family of dual- and quad-core APUs. Along with speed and performance improvements, AMD Steady Video update make t...