“AMD Break Free” is a new site that AMD just opened. When you go to this site you get a splash screen that says “European Commission Reveals the Truth About Intel.” This seems to be a campaign against Intel regarding a “monopoly.”Now I don’t know enough about the hard numbers to say whether or not [...]
AMD Phenom Model Numbers
AMD, Processors, Quad-Core No Comments »AMD will be launching Phenom processors in the September/October time frame and there will be several coming out then and in the following months, here is a good list of what we will be seeing.
Phenom X4 GP-7100 - 2.2 to 2.4GHz - 3600MHz HyperTransport 3.0 - 89 Watts
Phenom GP-7000 - 2.0 to 2.2GHz - 3200MHz [...]
AMD to Luanch 6400+ Soon
AMD, Processors, Rumor 1 Comment »AMD will soon be launching a new high end processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6400+. This will most likely just be a filler until AMD can get Phenom out. Phenom is due this year but will probably be in short supply until the beginning of next year.
AMD’s current high-end processor the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ [...]
AMD’s 50 by 15 Initiative
AMD, Internet No Comments »AMD has a launched an initiative called 50×15 (or 50 by 15). The goal of this is to have 50% of the world population using the internet by 2015. This is a great campaign and I think that it would benefit the world if 50+% of the world was on the net. I’m not sure [...]
AMD Cuts CPU Prices
AMD, Price War, Processors No Comments »A few days ago AMD cut prices again on their desktop processors. According to Cnet all of AMD’s Dual Core X2 desktop processors are now under $200, with the highest end X2 the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at just under $200. The 3600+ and 3800+ X2 processors have been cut from the line up leaving [...]
Barcelona Clock Speeds and Ship Dates
AMD, Processors, Quad-Core No Comments »AMD has been working on Barcelona for quite some time now but theInquirer has got some hard dates listed on their websites with clock speeds as well.
They are saying that the first of the Barcelona chips will show up on September 10th, 2 of them to be exact. A 1.9GHz numbered by AMD the 2348 [...]
First AM2+, Phenom Supporting, Motherboard by Biostar
AMD, Motherboard No Comments »Biostar has launched their TF560 A2+ Motherboard. This is the first motherboard to support AM2 and AM2+ processors.
The motherboard uses Nvidia’s nForce 560 chipset. This chipset is basically a cut down version of the 570, with the key difference being that the 560 doesn’t support SLI. The 560 does not need as much cooling as [...]
AMD Phenom Launching in November
AMD, Processors 1 Comment »According to DigiTimes, AMD is set to launch it’s Phenom processors in November of this year.
in the fourth quarter of 2007 AMD will launch the Phenom FX-80, The Phenom X4 GP-7100 and GP-7000, Along with the Phenom X2 GS-6550.
Finally AMD will get around to launching their 4-core processors. I’m really hoping that these processors will be [...]

