AMD's Zen man Keller defects to Samsung
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 26 October 2015 11:30

AMD's Zen man Keller defects to Samsung


That was Zen but this is now

The brains behind some key CPU designs in AMD and Apple has defected to Samsung.

More poor results from AMD
Published in News
Friday, 16 October 2015 09:59

More poor results from AMD


Has to flog plant 

AMD's woes are deepening as its profits continue to fall and it lacks any high tech product to pull its nadgers out of the fire.

AMD sheds 500 more staff
Published in News
Friday, 02 October 2015 08:50

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 gives TSMC Zen
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Friday, 25 September 2015 14:49

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
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Thursday, 24 September 2015 10:43

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.

ASUS shows off new Zen all-in-one
Published in AI
Friday, 04 September 2015 11:39

ASUS shows off new Zen all-in-one


All things are One Thing and No-thing

ASUS has been demonstrating its new Zen AiO S series all-in-one PCs.

AMD waves its graphics core next roadmap
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Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:42

AMD waves its graphics core next roadmap


Optimism or misty optics?

AMD has been waving about its graphics core next [GCN] roadmap despite admitting it is having difficulty due to lowering the research and development budget.

Exclusive details on AMD's Zen
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 13 August 2015 09:11

Exclusive details on AMD's Zen


No more shared FPU per two cores

Our well informed industry sources have shared a few more details about the AMD's 2016 Zen cores and not it appears that the architecture won't use the shared FPU like Bulldozer. 

AMD's Coherent data fabric enables 100 GB/s
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Thursday, 06 August 2015 10:21

AMD's Coherent data fabric enables 100 GB/s


PCIe gives you 15GB/s

After a lot of asking around, we can give you some actual numbers about the AMD's coherent fabric. 

AMD x86 16-core Heterogenous EHP Processor revealed
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Fudzilla told you about it in April

Fudzilla reported back in April about AMD's upcoming Exascale Heterogeneous Processor (EHP) with 16 cores and a Greenland APU, and now it seems that the rest of the world has caught up to the news.