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AMD Settles Llano APU Class Action Lawsuit with $29.5M Payout
In 2014, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of anyone who bought AMD shares between April 4, 2011 and October 18, 2012. This is due to a claim that AMD misled investors with the progress they were making with the launch of the Llano APU. Llano is a 32nm…
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AMD Releases FX-6330 Black Edition CPU
While Zen may still be a long way off, AMD isn’t just sitting around without new CPUs to launch. Stealthily launched, AMD is releasing a new FX-6330 chip to slot into their lineup but unfortunately only for the APAC (Asian Pacific) region for now. Set to replace the aging FX-6300 at…
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AMD FX-8370E 95W “Piledriver” Octa-Core Processor Review
Introduction & What’s New? The 32nm “Vishera” processors from AMD have been around for a long-while; since October 2012 to be exact. Vishera was AMD’s Zambezi successor with Vishera being based on the Piledriver architecture and Zambezi on Bulldozer. Since the first release of Vishera, AMD has continued to refresh its…
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Rumour: AMD Preparing Three New CPUs: FX-8370, FX-8370E and FX-8320E
AMD may have given up the fight with Intel in the very high end market but in the sub-$200 “mainstream” market, where most CPUs are bought, AMD is still putting up a fight. The latest move by AMD will be to launch a refreshed range of Piledriver processors, three to…
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AMD To Tape Out 14nm and 20nm Process Chips In Next 2 Quarters
AMD recently made a public statement about starting production and development on 14nm FinFET and 20nm Planar manufacturing process based chips. AMD says work will begin on both processes within the next two quarters (6 months) reports X-Bit Labs. AMD’s 20nm process will be done with TSMC and the 20nm chips…
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Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition Processor Review
Introduction Ever since Intel released Ivy Bridge to the LGA 1155 platform, LGA 2011 owners were wondering when they would see High End Desktop (HEDT) processors based on the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture. Up until today the LGA 2011 platform lagged two generations behind the mainstream LGA 115X platforms…
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Intel NUC DCCP847DYE System Review
Intel’s NUC, or next unit of computing, platform is a refreshingly new idea. Essentially what Intel have created is an ultra compact PC standard that they want to be the future of computing. Measuring in at just 12 by 11 by 4cm the Intel NUC is an impressive small standardised…
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AMD Unveils Server Roadmap: Steamroller Coming Early 2014, ARM Late 2014
AMD has just revealed to us today their updated 2013 to 204 server roadmap. AMD’s server roadmap is often an indication of the consumer CPU market in that new architectures tend to hit the server platforms about 3-6 months before the consumer platforms. That said what is quite interesting about…
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Rumour: Intel’s Haswell-E Platform To Bring DDR4 Support and 8 Cores
The guys over at VR-Zone have a long tradition of getting leaks about new Intel platforms quite early and they have published news of Intel’s new Haswell-E platform before we’ve even seen its predecessor Ivy Bridge-E. According to their reports the new Haswell-E platform will hit the market in the…
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Intel Ivy Bridge-E LGA 2011 Platform Detailed
Intel’s Haswell, LGA 1150, platform is expected to hit the market in June 2013 and by then the mainstream platform will be two generations ahead of Intel’s High End Desktop (HEDT) platform which is still stuck on Sandy Bridge architecture. However, Intel will be bringing the HEDT platform, socket LGA…
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Intel Launches Clover Trail+ Platform and Mentions the Next-Gen Merrifield Platform
Intel brought the 22nm architecture to the desktop in the form of “Ivy Bridge” back on April the 29th 2012. The transition to 22nm represented a large step forward in power efficiency and a modest step forward in clock-per-clock performance. Now Intel is promising that this transition will hit their…
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