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In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD's mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen 7040 series), it seems as though AMD is once again changing things around where their naming scheme for processors is concerned. The ASUS listing, which has now since been deleted, but as of writing is still available through Google's cache, highlights a model that is already in existence, the VivoBook S 16 OLED (M5606), but is listed with an unknown AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor. Which, based on...
AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute
Update: This article was originally posted on June 17, 2011. We are pushing it back up to the top as a quick refresher before upcoming articles... We’ve just returned from...
83 by Ryan Smith on 12/21/2011
AMD Intros New Unlocked K-Series Llano APUs: A8-3870K & A8-3670K
When we first reviewed Llano we thought it was a fairly competent desktop part if you needed a solution that didn't rely on discrete graphics. My biggest issue with...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2011
Microsoft Releases Hotfix to Improve Bulldozer Performance UPDATE: Pulled
The launch of Bulldozer in October wasn't exactly a success for AMD. In our review, Anand ended up recommending the Intel i5-2500K over AMD FX-8150. One of the reasons...
76 by Kristian Vättö on 12/16/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Preview – Custom Application Profiles, HD3D CrossFire, & More
Later today AMD will be releasing the first preview for their Catalyst 12.1 driver set. AMD has been going through preview/beta drivers at a rapid pace in the last...
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Holiday 2011 Mainstream High-End Buyer's Guide
After covering the budget and midrange sectors of the DIY PC market, as well as pre-built desktops and laptops, today we have a guide outlining mainstream high-end builds. Saying...
52 by Zach Throckmorton on 12/9/2011
Zalman to Enter Graphics Card Market With AMD GPUs
Overclockers.ua has leaked slides which strongly suggest that Zalman will soon be entering the graphics card market. Zalman is mostly known for their coolers and their CPU coolers are...
14 by Kristian Vättö on 12/8/2011
AMD Releases New Llano Mobile CPUs
AMD is refreshing its mobile CPU lineup with seven new A4, A6, and A8 Llano processors for socket FS1. With one exception, these dual- and quad-core processors give a...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/8/2011
Introducing AMD’s Radeon 7000M and NVIDIA’s GeForce 600M Mobile GPUs
AMD briefed us last week on several new and upcoming technologies and announcements. We’ve covered the AMD Memory announcement, and next up on the list is AMD’s Radeon Mobility...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/7/2011
Holiday 2011 Midrange System Buyer's Guide
The latest edition of our Holiday 2011 guides focuses on midrange desktops. If you enjoy the prospect of building your own PC or you just prefer the ability to...
58 by Zach Throckmorton on 12/6/2011
Holiday 2011 Laptop Buyer’s Guide
We say it every year, but the trends continue so we’ll keep repeating it: laptops and mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular, often at the cost of desktop sales...
88 by Jarred Walton on 12/2/2011
AMD Revises Bulldozer Transistor Count: 1.2B, not 2B
This is a bit unusual. I got an email from AMD PR this week asking me to correct the Bulldozer transistor count in our Sandy Bridge E review...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2011
Pre-Built Desktop Buyer's Guide: Holiday 2011 Edition
While we at AnandTech recognize that a good portion of our readership prefers to roll their own as far as desktops go, not everyone is that way. Sometimes there...
42 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/30/2011
Introducing AMD’s Memory Brand
We discussed the availability of AMD branded memory modules earlier this month, but today AMD is officially unveiling information on their memory platform. There are a few major questions...
55 by Jarred Walton on 11/28/2011
Batman: Arkham City—New Villain DX11 Man on PCs!
If you’re one of the gamers who waited anxiously for the PC release of Batman: Arkham City yesterday, and you have a reasonably high-end PC, there’s a good chance...
40 by Jarred Walton on 11/23/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 11.11 Drivers
AMD yesterday released its 11.11 Catalyst driver package, not three weeks after last month's 11.10 release. As usual, supported operating systems include 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Vista...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/19/2011
Bulldozer for Servers: Testing AMD's "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 Series
Last month, AMD launched their Bulldozer architecture on desktops, and the result was rather underwhelming; however, there are plenty of indications that Bulldozer simply wasn't architected to excel at...
113 by Johan De Gelas on 11/15/2011
AMD Introduces New Socket FM1 Athlon, Price Changes
In addition to its new Opteron chips, AMD yesterday announced a few small changes to its processor line-up, including adjusted prices for several of its Llano-based APUs (and one...
35 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/15/2011
AMD Releases Opteron 4200 "Valencia" and 6200 "Interlagos" Series
AMD launched Bulldozer about a month ago, but the initial CPUs were only for desktops. As a follow up, AMD has today released the server variants of Bulldozer. There...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 11/14/2011
AMD's Project Win: A Misunderstanding
Last week AMD announced layoffs that impacted 10% of its workforce. A disproportionate number of those AMDers were apparently from the marketing and PR groups, but even engineering was...
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Holiday Budget System Buyers' Guide
The recent launch of Intel Sandy Bridge-based Celeron CPUs and the proliferation of budget-priced LGA 1155 socket motherboards bring fresh competition to the budget desktop computer market segment, long...
95 by Zach Throckmorton on 11/8/2011
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