Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): A new series of Radeon HD graphic cards for gamers has been released by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). The HD 6850 and 6870 graphics cards take advantage of Microsoft’s DirectX 11 technology with Shader 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 in Windows 7 and compete with Nvidia’s GTX 460. While both manufacturers claim to [...]
Samsung: New dual-core mobile processor
September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Seoul (ip-192.com): A new processor for mobile applications has been released by Samsung. Orion features two 1GHz Arm Cortex A9 cores. Each core comes with a 32KB data cache and a 32KB instruction cache. A 1MB L2 cache will allow applications to run concurrently in a multi-tasking environment. The new processor is capable to encode/decode [...]
The long goodbye: AMD retires ATI brand
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Markham (ip-192.com): It has been a long "Goodbye" but now it's official: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will retire the ATI brand. AMD acquired the major Canadian designer and supplier of graphics processing units and motherboard chipsets in 2006. As a fabless semiconductor company, ATI specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor [...]
Atom N550: Dual-core processor for netbooks
August 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): To beef up processing power, netbooks from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba ship now with a new Dual-core Intel Atom processor. The new chip provides a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor and DDR3 memory support. "In their short history, the netbook category [...]
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