Description: Today is the embargo lift for the new amd Ryzen 3 CPUs, and Luke looks at both the 3300X and the cheaper 3100 in this review. Both are quad-core chips with SMT, but how do they stack up ...

Making use of its $5.4 billion acquisition of graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) started shipments today of a new series of graphics processors aimed at the ...

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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Just when system builders thought it was safe to settle down and build systems, here comes AMD with another huge product launch, the Phenom microprocessor and the Spider platform for high-performance ...

We’re all familiar with the competitive drive to buy or build the biggest and the best. It’s human nature and the reason we have clichés such as “keeping up with the Jones’.” In the computer processor ...

I have been trying to build a god box for a while. I have many of my components together except for MB, CPU, Memory, and Video. The original plan called for a dually mb w/ SLI capability. I would buy ...

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices introduces energy-efficient quad-core Opteron processors "designed to help data center managers" focused on power consumption and virtualization. Brooke Crothers ...

Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks ...

Digitimes is reporting that Intel is about to pop a series of cheap quad core processors (Q8000) to slap back at AMD’s budget triple core offerings. The first will be the Core 2 Quad 8200, which’ll ...

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 ...