From the last sentence, it looks like Nvidia may be unleashing more lawsuits against a lot more companies too, ugh...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/09/nvidia-sues-samsung-seeks-to-halt-qualcomm-powered-galaxy-phones-shipments/
http://www.techpowerup.com/204507/sapphire-radeon-r9-285-itx-compact-edition-pictured.html
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2444&psn=000101&lid=1
The Sapphire tech specs indicate only a single 8 pin pci-e connector supplying 150...
Some game sites in Europe inquired with the developers about Mantle and TrueAudio with interesting hints:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Alien-Isolation-PC-258198/Specials/Technik-Infos-und-True-Audio-Support-1133499/
Sweclockers have info indicating that AMD Kaveri and Athlon Kaveri (without internal GCN GPU) are supposed to have performance competitive with Intel i5 and i3 along with powerful GCN graphics that support Mantle accleration, and will be available in a wide price range that will make them very...
AMD graphics and APUs are creating hard rock fanboys and provided a load of great gifts for Jimmy Fallon audience guys and gals last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mwe2FCxqJY
Funny AMD Fanboy Song just released by Tech of Tomorrow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIPggCgYK38
Market for AMD graphics cards is rapidly expanding from just gaming/graphics to a worldwide boom in mining from everything like litecoins to genetic code research, so that consumers are now buying Radeons by the trunkloads...
AMD APU Summit Live Stream November 13, 2013 Wednesday
1:15 pm 1:45 pm PST (4:15 pm - 4:45 pm EST)
Keynote, Johan Andersson,
Technical Director, Electronic Arts
BattleField 4 Developer
Rendering Battlefield 4 with Mantle
In this keynote, Johan will discuss how the Frostbite 3...
This could be truest test of the new RX-290 graphics cards in multiplayer BF4 along with demos of Mantle acceleration at the APU summit on Nov 11-13!
WHAT: AMD Fan Day San Jose – day of tournaments, contests and raffles and the world’s first Battlefield 4 tournament!
WHEN: November...
AMD's Revolutionary Mantle Graphics API Adopted by Industry Leading Game Developers Cloud Imperium, Eidos-Montreal and Oxide
Sneak previews of AMD Mantle technology will be shown at APU Summit developers conference November 11 to 13, 2013.
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2013) - AMD...
AMD Developer Summit on November 11-13 at Santa Clara, CA will have seminars on the TrueAudio technology and capabilities of the new R9-290X, 290 and R7-260X graphics cards.
From the Max PC interview:
Maximum PC: In one sentence TrueAudio is:
AMD: A programmable audio core built into...
The scalablilty extending from a high performance mini-ITX Steam PC engine to a medium cost Apple Macbook Media/Gaming laptop to all around the house AIO PC entertainment system is now becoming within reach of everyone!
AMD Kaveri APU advanced features and production details surfacing:
http://wccftech.com/amd-launches-kaveri-apu-skus-february-2014-feature-set-a10-a8-apus-detailed/
AMD R9-290X hit new world records using lower core/mem clocks than Titan! :eek:
Without LN2, EK waterblocks confirm that R9-290X is able to easily overclock to 1200/1600.
AMD Jaguar Kabinis quad core A6-5200 APU based laptops are now the number one and number three bestsellers at Best Buy, outselling cheaper Chromebooks and Macbook notebooks. Search Best Buy by model number and best seller list for verification.
Number one is Toshiba 15.6" Touchscreen quad...
After watching the video of BF4 Angry Seas running 4K at GPU14 event on single AMD R9-290X, the experience of GCN with Mantle will be like F14 on afterburners.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ff_1333748834
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnPYzQ81Us
From Videocardz.com
ASUS, HIS, MSI, Sapphire, PowerColor and Gigabyte R9 2xx lineup pictures
According to the source, a special event took place in Sydney, where AMD showcased their new technologies and latest graphics cards. Also all major AIB partners were there as well to show their...
Videocardz has great looking pictures of new AMD R9 production cards with chips just out of the fab ovens...factory fresh! They are going to have to build a stock of millions of these cards over the next few weeks and get them in the hands of reviewers and users...
"AMD is showing off its latest round of APUs accelerated processing units that combine compute and graphics cores on the same slice o' silicon that it hopes will be reinforcements in its battle for the consumer market against its main competitor, Intel, especially at the low-power end of the...
"Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399.
The lineup includes three TouchSmart laptops with touchscreens and two non-touch laptops. The less expensive touch models, the $399...
The Asus X202e does not have a wide angle IPS LED-backlight touchscreen display and from looking at the same notebookcheck website the average of review scores is 63.3% or a score of D to D+ where A is the highest score. So to cram a $200 i3 into a notebook that initially was priced at $599 you...
Looking at the marketing material from Acer that was posted, it looks like they are aiming to sell to business women. Since AMD is pricing the Temash and low end Kabinis at or below Intel Atoms while having performance that approaches i3 level is an amazing accomplishment.
As the previous...
From Barron's --
Update: Calls in to sell-side folks have at this point turned up a couple of rumors. One is a persistent rumor that Intel (INTC) will buy AMD, which, according to one source who could not be quoted by name, might suddenly be possible because the field of computing is now...
From Liliputing ---
Acer is introducing a new notebook with a small screen and a relatively low price. The Acer Aspire V5-122 is a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD Temash processor. It’s expected to have a starting price of $450, which makes it one...
A guy in Hong Kong just posted some benchmarks of his X6 1055T slightly oced to 3.6 Ghz and looks like it overtakes a lot of Intels i7 offerings easily.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=249434&page=5
http://vr-zone.com/forums/487528/why-directx-11-matters-pic-.html
TWIMTBP? Boxy looking air filter versus a realistic rendering.
Win 7 and DX11 make the 5870 easily outperform dual GPU DX10 cards.
The AMD Eyefinity web page indicates that Catalyst 9.10 supports it:
"Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector."
How is the Sapphire 5870 with your current apps?
"Sewell served as Intel's general counsel since 2001 and had served on the company's legal team since 1995. Most recently, he has been working on an appeal for the huge fine levied by the European Union for anticompetitive practices. Prior to working for Intel, he was a partner with Brown and...
First picture was of Lockheed Martin simulator and second was a Link/Singer "HD World" F16 simulator. Here are videos of the LH F22 and F35 simulators (called $30 million Xboxes). It goes to show even with pretty thick bezels, you don't notice them after awhile...
Anandtech updated their lab tests of the Core i7/i5/P55 and AMD Phenom II 965 and they find:
"The i5/750 results actually surprised me. The system never once felt “slow” but the results do not lie. The i5/750 had its head served on a platter at stock speeds, primarily due to the...
Looks like many of the major OEMS are going to time their release with availability of Windows 7 (although from the article, some models will be out in Asia this month.)
"The AMD graphics chip-based "Vision" technology complements Microsoft's upcoming operating system. "Windows 7 supports...
Check out this review of the $100 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (Tri-core) against the i7 and i5 CPUs under Linux! Looks like Intel 'nailed it' all right... :cool:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_lynnfield&num=1
Check out this review of the $100 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (Tri-core) against the i7 and i5 CPUs under Linux! Looks like Intel nailed it all right... :cool:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_lynnfield&num=1