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China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL Drivers Available
Going along with this morning’s NVIDIA drivers announcement, AMD has released their latest 13.9 WHQL drivers today. AMD’s way of doing driver releases can frankly get a bit confusing...
12 by Jarred Walton on 9/19/2013AMD Announces 2014 GPU Product Showcase Webcast: Sept. 25, 3pm EDT
Picking up from where we left off this morning, AMD has unveiled their plans for their next GPU tech day, including plans for a product showcase webcast. AMD’s GPU 2014...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2013AMD Teases Next Enthusiast GPU: Still 28nm, 23% Smaller Than GK110
Rumors aside, after AMD’s unexpected preview of their 2013 GPU plans back at the start of this year the company has been mum-as-usual on the matter of their future...
49 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2013Saints Row IV Added to AMD’s Never Settle Forever Gold Tier
AMD sends word this morning that they are making the first of their planned additions to their recently announced Never Settle Forever bundle program. Previously launched in August, Never...
3 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2013AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Drivers Released
AMD has released another set of Catalyst beta drivers for their GPUs, this time ratcheting the version number up to 13.10. Catalyst 13.10 is a continuation of last month’s Catalyst...
5 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2013Analyzing the Price of Mobility: Desktops vs. Laptops
Computers have been getting faster over the years, and with the increased performance we eventually passed the point where most systems were “fast enough” and the various features and...
110 by Jarred Walton on 9/7/2013AMD Center Giveaway: Acer V5, 11.6" quad-core Temash Notebooks
Today we launched the AMD Center, a portal on AnandTech that aggregates all of our AMD content in one place. Thanks to AMD's sponsorship you'll get a cleaner interface...
1265 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2013Understanding AMD's Semi-Custom Strategy
With Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia we are now living in a world where all three major client OS providers (Apple, Google and MS) all own/are device companies. Samsung gets...
51 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2013ASUS Announces X102BA Touchscreen Ultraportable with AMD’s Temash APU
As we wrap up with ASUS’ IFA announcements for today, we shift from the tablet and smartphone sectors over to laptops. Launched back in May, Kabini is AMD’s alternative...
17 by Jarred Walton on 9/4/2013Lenovo Announces New ThinkPad T, X, and S series Ultrabooks
Today in the pre-IFA excitement in Berlin, Germany, Lenovo announced updates to their T, X, and S series Ultrabooks, with thinner form factors, a variety of panel options, larger...
46 by Jarred Walton on 9/3/2013Choosing a Gaming Laptop, Back-to-School 2013 Edition
We regularly get asked for opinions on what product is “best” for a certain use case. Naturally, what makes a product perfect for one user may not matter much...
61 by Jarred Walton on 8/23/2013GIGABYTE F2A85XN-WiFi Review: FM2 and Richland in mini-ITX
Mini-ITX is an exciting form factor, as with every CPU generation we can make something small and faster with better features over the previous gen. GIGABYTE recently released a...
32 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2013Apple Initiates Video Card Replacement Program for Radeon HD 6970M Equipped Mid-2011 27” iMacs
In a somewhat baffling piece of news this weekend, word comes that Apple has initiated an internal replacement program for the video cards on some of their mid-2011 27&rdquo...
46 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2013GIGABYTE Announces FM2+ A88X Series Motherboards for Kaveri
The evolution of the Bulldozer module, through Piledriver, and Steamroller on Kaveri to come has been an eventful journey. Despite recent rumors floating around the Internet reporting delays...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/16/2013AMD Announces Never Settle Forever Bundle, Introduces Selectable Rewards
With AMD’s existing Never Settle Reloaded bundle set to wind-down this summer, AMD is announcing this morning that they are once again refreshing their popular Never Settle bundle program...
23 by Ryan Smith on 8/14/2013AMD's Radeon HD 7990 Gets an Official Price Cut: $799 and Below
We don’t typically run pipeline stories on video card price cuts, but then again most price cuts are gradual affairs that even the manufacturers themselves rarely draw attention to...
34 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2013AMD Frame Pacing Explored: Catalyst 13.8 Brings Consistency to Crossfire
In the continuing saga of AMD's efforts to improve their framerate consistency, back in March AMD set a deadline of this summer to deliver their first driver implementing advanced...
102 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013Some Quick Gaming Numbers at 4K, Max Settings
Part of my extra-curricular testing post Computex this year put me in the hands of a Sharp 4K30 monitor for three days and with a variety of AMD and...
134 by Ian Cutress on 7/1/2013AMD's A10-5750M Review, Part 1: The APU and Radeon HD 8650G Performance
While AMD's Richland update has been of modest benefit on the desktop, improved power consumption and turbo features tend to go over much better in mobile. Is the AMD...
82 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/28/2013Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M
We recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M. With a theoretical computational performance increase of 30%...
59 by Jarred Walton on 6/21/2013