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After the ATI merger AMD voiced it would be formulating a new difficulty of microprocessors which featured integrated ATI GPUs. AMD called these hybrid CPU/GPUs Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)…

First central AMD formed 3D notebook

HP has updated the Envy cover array with dual new models, the 14.5-inch Envy fourteen Beats Editon and 17.3-inch Envy seventeen 3D featuring 3D Ultra BrightView arrangement and AMD Mobility Radeon graphics to energy it.

The 14.5-inch Envy fourteen Beats Edition gets the name interjection to the Beats Audio record and facilities Intel’s Core i5-460M CPU interconnected up with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card. The rest of the specs embody up to 8GB of memory, 640GB HDD, Gigabit LAN, 802.11bgn WiFi, red-backlit keyboard, HDMI outlay and an 8-cell battery. The Envy fourteen BE starts at US $1,249.

The HP Envy seventeen 3D is utterly engaging as we have been articulate about the initial AMD formed 3D notebook, something which we listened about but haven’t seen ’till now. Some competence disagree which Nvidia is happily staid in 3D notebooks for utterly a little time, but bear in mind which we still haven’t seen anything over fifteen inches with an Nvidia sticker. (You never saw me naked? sub.ed.)

HP took a opposite trail and Envy seventeen 3D packs a 17.3-inch 120Hz stereoscopic shade with full HD 1080p resolution. Of course, we have been still articulate about 3D with active shiver eyeglasses which have to be charged from time to time, done by Xpan HD. As far as the specs go, the Envy seventeen will underline Core i7 CPU, Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics, Blu-ray drive, up to 2TB of HDD space, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.

For now, AMD and HP have put out a list of 200 games which will work with this bundle,but we have been certain which we’ll see some-more once this one becomes available. The Envy seventeen 3D should crop up during this year legal holiday deteriorate and is approaching to have a cost of underneath US $2,000.

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GTC 2010: No sum on the graphics core

From what we have only schooled at the Global Technology conference, a new discussion hosted by Globalfoundries, AMD’s Llano is a quad-core CPU with a local graphics core.

It is a 32nm thinly slice which will be done in GloFo’s Dresden bureau and the core at the back of the thinly slice is a heavily reengineered K8. Don’t be disturbed as the K8 core has developed a lot and it can await involuntary overclocking and involuntary time voltage adjustments, but the simple single-core pattern itself is formed on a tuned-up great old K8, or rsther than 4 of them.

This is the same core which you can see in a little AMD cover CPUs. While it is transparent which the Llano core has developed past the K10.5 pattern in a little respects, there have been additionally a integrate of twists. We hold which the core should finish up identical to AMD’s not long ago launched mobile Athlon II processors, definition which it substantially has no L3 cache. However, this is not indispensably a bad thing, as AMD’s cache-less Athlons conduct to broach great opening at great prices. Basically AMD’s has proven which slicing out L3 on sure CPUs is a great approach of shortening die distance and obscure prolongation costs.

Llano should be ready in 2011 as AMD’s initial quad-core with 32nm cores and unfortunately it has to go up opposite Sandy Bridge, a CPU which has a lot of intensity in both x86 and graphics performance. However, there’s additionally a great possibility which Llano will finish up significantly cheaper than Sandy Bridge, so it could suggest improved worth for money.

Just to stay on the protected side, this is not something which was strictly talked at the conference, it was something which we found out asking around, and fundamentally confirming what we often already knew. AMD did discuss a little Llano info and even showed the wafer, but we will try to sense some-more over the subsequent integrate of days so stay tuned.

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Industry analysts agree

“If you have been in the hole, stop digging,” is what Mike Magee, owner of The Register and The Inquirer would discuss it you. AMD is perplexing to transparent murdering the ATI brand, a move which has not been well-accepted in the graphics world. In short, the readers have been not happy (please demonstrate your feelings in criticism territory below. ed.), and most of the attention insiders we met in Silicon Valley appear to agree.

At this point, most hold which AMD should progressively blur divided the ATI brand. A in accord with thought would be to simply make known the AMD Radeon 6000 Series family and let people assume because the association ditched the gaming brand. But given this is AMD, and given this is the association which utterly lame the Fusion brand, we cannot design anything better.

Many people hold ATI is a stronger code than AMD. Over the years, ATI has won some-more successful product rounds with graphics than AMD has with processors. It’s been a whilst given AMD has had prevalence over Intel in this respect, and it doesn’t demeanour similar to anything is going to shift in the processor marketplace until 2011. It is generally foolish for AMD to govern any game-changing CPU skeleton now, at a point where ATI is winning in the 40nm competition opposite Nvidia – the association which was some-more than 6 months late with the ultimate era of graphics products.

We could go on repetition all we wish about how unsatisfactory AMD’s preference was to dump the ATI brand, but the association has strictly done the last word clear. ATI is dead, only similar to 3DFX. As far as we have been concerned, however, the discuss is still not over.

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Still facilities ATI branding

The guys from Chiphell.com managed to measure what is claimed to be a operative antecedent of AMD’s Radeon HD 6000 Series graphics label codenamed “Cayman XT.” According to the info, the pixellized label is the XT chronicle of the Cayman thinly slice and should be the Radeon HD 6×70 array card, at slightest if AMD sticks to the rumoured fixing scheme.

Unfortunately, the design doesn’t exhibit most plain report rsther than than a little speculaction which the label competence be as prolonged as the Radeon HD 5870, should have CrossFireX support, and has dual DVI ports, an HDMI port and dual mini-DisplayPort connectors. The post didn’t exhibit any alternative specifications, solely which we have been seeking at a GPU done on TSMC’s 40nm production process.

An engaging item is which the antecedent still proudly carries the ATI code sticker, something which AMD will substantially throw divided shortly enough. In any case, it looks similar to some-more info per AMD’s Radeon HD 6000 Series family has eventually proposed to drip out, which equates to which we’ll see some-more aspect really soon.

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