AMD sheds 500 more staff
We warned you
While we want AMD to do well to balance the Intel and Nvidia empires, it does seem that the outfit cannot get a break. Today it announced that it is letting 500 staff go and will begin another wave of restructuring.
AMD releases Pro APU
Based on Godaveri and Carrizo
Troubled chipmaker AMD's has launched its Pro APUs quietly with just one major customer so far, the maker of expensive printer ink HP.
AMD upgrades discrete graphics for embedded systems
Three levels of performance
AMD has announced a new range of discrete graphics for embedded systems raning from "power efficient" to "high performance" and "ultra-high performance."
AMD releases Catalyst 15.9 Beta drivers
Game optimizations and bug fixes
AMD has released its latest Catalyst 15.9 Beta drivers that will bring game optimizations for upcoming beta phase of Star Wars Battlefront game as well as a couple of bug fixes.
AMD gives TSMC Zen
What is the sound of 16nm FinFET clapping
Amid rumours of Globalfoundries' slow 14nm FinFET yield, it appears that AMD has taken its Zen project to TSMC.
AMD gave Zen engineers a free hand
Has one hand clapping – but no ARM
AMD has said that its Zen engineers had total freedom to build a chip from scratch and come up with the best.
Intel slowed PC sales to increase Skylake's price
Things Chipzilla can do while AMD naps
Chipzilla might have caused slow PC sales at the beginning of the year to boost the price of its Skylake chips later.
EK Water Blocks releases R9 Nano block
Full-cover water block for Radeon R9 Nano
EK Water Blocks, a well known liquid cooling manufacturer from Slovenia, has released its newest full-cover water blocks designed for AMD's Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, the EK-FC R9 Nano.
XFX working on liquid-cooled R9 Fury
With factory-overclocked GPU
While the Radeon R9 Fury X was the only graphics card in the Fury series shipping with AiO liquid cooler, this will apparently change as XFX is working on a Radeon R9 Fury (non-X) version that will feature a similar cooling system.
Gloflo developing its own 7nm and 10nm
We don't need no outsiders
AMD spin off Globalfoundaries is apparently doing rather well and developed its own 7nm and 10nm fabrication processes.