AMD's new Ryzen 3 chips represent a major threat to Intel's dominance in the mainstream and budget PC markets. Like the other chips in AMD's Ryzen line, the Ryzen 3 is based on the Zen architecture, ...

What will be the next big evolution in AMD's processor family won't be ready to ship until mid-2007, but the company hit a milestone by showing industry analysts and customers that it's moving along ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

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The AMD Phenom™ II X4 975 Black Edition is AMD’s fastest quad-core processor, an enthusiast’s favorite including unlocked clock multipliers and quad-core performance. The AMD Phenom™ II X6 1065T is a ...

AMD rolled out its Phenom triple core processor and the reactions ranged from "triple core is a marketing spiel" to "triple core gives consumers another option." Both reactions miss the big picture.

If you’ve ever shoehorned random hardware into a gaming system, this one’s for you. A creative thinker named RandomGaminginHD took a shot at playing current PC games with a rig featuring an AMD Epyc ...

Upgradeability from dual- to quad-core processors is expected to be as straightforward as it was from single- to dual-core with AMD, with unchanged thermal and electrical envelopes. The demonstration ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- April 9, 2008 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability and widespread shipping of Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based server systems among its channel partners. Ten AMD ...

AMD’s entry into quad-core design, the newly released QuadFX processor, isn’t winning much enthusiasm from early testers. Analysts and testers say the “QuadFather” chip is great for multi-tasking, but ...

It’s hard to believe what’s happened over the past few years in the processor market. No one truly knew what to expect from AMD’s original Zen launch, but from the get-go, it became clear that Intel ...