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AMD Launches 7th Gen APUs Bristol Ridge
After a pre-release mini launch earlier in the year, we are finally getting AMD’s 7th generation APUs. Codenamed Bristol Ridge, the new chip lineup bridges the gap between current offerings and the upcoming Zen CPUs and APUs. The big reveal is a new line of A9 APUs which supplements the…
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AMD Bristol Ridge APU Lineup Leaked
Ever since the launch of the APU back in 2011, both AMD and Intel have continued down this path. While CPU performance hasn’t grown much, the iGPU side of the chips continues to improve every generation. On June 1st at Computex, AMD will launch their 7th generation APUs, Bristol Ridge.…
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AMD Bristol Ridge Pops up on Geekbench
Before we get to the lovely Zen architecture that is supposed to save AMD, there is still one more iteration of the Construction cores. Last month, AMD did a pre-announcement/pre-launch for their latest Bristol Ridge APUs based off of the Excavator architecture. Set to launch during Computex, more information about…
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AMD Bristol Ridge Geekbench Scores Spotted
In a final hurrah for AMD’s Bulldozer and its derivatives, Bristol Ridge APUs will launch later this year. Coming in just before Zen arrives in Q4, the update will bring Excavator to the desktop as well as introduce the new Socket AM4. Today, we’ve been treated to the Geekbench scores…
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AMD Launches A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845
Despite being stuck on the 28nm node for the past while, AMD has been working to bring more CPUs to consumers with better binning and performance as the process and technology matures. Case in point is the A10-7860K Godavari and Athlon X8 845 Carrizo chips launching today. Both chips are focused on…
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AMD Begins Transition to Socket AM4 Zen Architecture
Documents have surfaced, via Benchlife.info, that suggest AMD is starting its transition from Excavator architecture to Zen architecture, with the company’s new Socket AM4 arriving on new motherboards by March 2016. AMD has been using its Socket AM3 for over six years, so is well overdue an upgrade. The AM4…
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Old AMD Slides Showed Zen APU Delayed Till 2017
When AMD launched their new Zen architecture back in May, the firm announced that Zen would arrive for the CPU and APU lines at the same time. According to slides from March that have now been leaked, it looks like AMD might have originally planned for Zen to arrive in 2017,…
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New AMD Zen Core Details Leaked
New information for AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture has been leaked ahead of the company’s annual Financial Analyst Day. The leak image appears to be an official slide details the block diagram for the next generation architecture. If this slide is legitimate, this will offer the first glimpse into the innards…
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Rumour: AMD “Carrizo” Desktop APUs Delayed, Kaveri Refresh To Fill The Gap
We’ve heard a lot about AMD’s Next-Generation desktop APU platform, codename Carrizo. Last year we heard that the expected arrival date was to be 2015, and up until now we thought this was still on-track especially when details about the A10-8890K APU were released that showed support for a new FM3…
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AMD Update Product Roadmap For 2014-2015
Digitimes reports that AMD has revised its product roadmap for 2014-2015 due to changes in the industry. AMD will proceed with the unveiling of its Volcanic Islands GPU family in late-September 2013. In the first quarter of 2014 they will apparently unveil their fourth generation of APUs codename Kaveri and…
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