When you look at a random netbook, chances are its processor is going to be in the Intel Atom family. AMD are starting to slowly take ground in this market though, as they’ve announced an upcoming netbook-targeted processor.
When you look at a random netbook, chances are its processor is going to be in the Intel Atom family. AMD are starting to slowly take ground in this market though, as they’ve announced an upcoming netbook-targeted processor.
MSI unveiled its Wind12 line of AMD ultraportable notebooks a few months back, and the original U230 was shown in a video back in November 2009. Now they have unveiled their next generation 12-inch netbooks, in the form of the Wind12 U230-033 and U230-040. The new models come packed with a larger screen and more computing power. Both come preloaded with Windows 7 Home Premium and 12.1 inch 1366×768 ( WXGA ) display. The U230-033 will be priced at $429.99 and the higher-end model U230-040 at $479.99.
Nvidia is all set to scale a landmark. But then, will AMD let such a thing happen effortlessly? Plans going on as anticipated has brought Nvidia on road to unveiling the much its first DirectX 11-supporting graphics cards GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. By racing towards a launch date, it is also seen that Nvidia might have to battle resistance from AMD, which is already lining up a handful of new Cypress-based releases so that it could thwart any attempt at spoiling its play field.
Republic of Gamers is what Asus calls its range of very high-end overclocked high-performance video cards. News has leaked about an upcoming card in the series based on the ATi Radeon HD5870 video card. The new card has been turbo charged from the default 850MHz GPU clock to 900 MHz and with double the amount of 4.9Gbps video RAM as the reference card. The card is so designed that there is still more room for overclocking it further to 1080 MHz and the memory to 5.2 Gbps.
AMD ATi has announced their latest DirectX 11 capable video card, the ATi Radeon HD 5570. It is part of the budget-range 5500 series targeted specially at HTPC setups. It has been specifically designed for fitting in low-profile cases. It supports 1080p HD output through HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
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Two Athlon IIs and a Phenom II form the latest line up at the house of AMD. The three processors, aimed at budget Windows 7 desktops, come under the sub-$100 category. These apart, two quad core desktop CPUs costing above $100 has also been unveiled by Advanced Micro Devices.
Intel has officially released its latest dual and quad core Clarkable and Arrandale CPUs. The unveiling of these desktop and laptop CPUs comes as a major blow to AMD which has been eating into the Intel market share for a while now. Intel, with these launches, has brought to the market as many as 27 different chips and seven individual chipsets.
Lenovo is bringing in a bit of freshness to its new ThinkPad line by incorporating chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD). Two new ThinkPad models that will sport AMD microprocessors will soon debut from the Lenovo stables.
After Intel’s mobile Core i5 processors surfaced, along with the 5xxx mobile series of chipsets from ATi, it was obvious that we would be seeing high end notebooks soon packed with these speedy new products. Some information has now come out regarding an Asus big-screen notebook called the Asus X77, which will be using these high-end parts to put out some really awesome performance.
ATi Technologies today announced the release of their much anticipated HD5970 dual GPU video card. Codenamed “Hemlock”, the card is being called as the ” fastest graphics card in the world”. There is nothing on offer from competitor nVidia that can match up to ATi’s latest offering and it is expected to stay that way until nVidia brings out their “Fermi” offerings in Q1 2010.
The ATi Radeon HD5970, consists of two 5870 “Cypress” GPUs packed onto a single card resulting in an awesome 5 TeraFLOPs of pure graphics processing muscle. The card, whose pictures have been leaked in the last few weeks, like the other HD5xxx cards, packs DirectX 11 support, ATi’s Eyefinity multi-display technology and supports ATi Overdrive for overclocking. A demo showed the dual CPU card rendering graphics at a mind-blowing 7680×1600 resolution using three displays placed side by side. This monstrosity of a video card will retail for $599 from manufacturers including Asus, Diamond, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire, VisionTek and XFX. It will also be available as a component in Alienware’s Area-51 Area-51 ALX and Aurora range of gaming desktops.
