Overclockers

You may have heard something about AMD losing out on something connected with the now-bankrupt firm Lehman Brothers.

The AMD Athlon 7750 Black Edition has come in with a whimper.

About two months ago, AMD made a deal with the Abu Dhabi investment people.  Well, those folks just struck a harder deal.

No, I haven’t regressed to 1997.  These are Phenom II prices. 

They just announced that they expect revenues to be down 25% from last quarter, when you’d normally expect an increase of 10% of more.

A recession has arrived in the most economically developed parts of the world, and tech sales are falling.  What to do when you’re a CPU company?  (Warning: Genital analogies abound.)

Can Denebs hold their own against Penryns?

People have had some time to play with the i7s a bit and figure out the various voltages and multipliers and relationships between them all needed to make them purr. 

Intel lCore i7 overclocking is like shooting fish in a barrel – is it worth it?

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It’s surely not intentional, but Intel looks like they’re giving AMD a chance to get back on its feet with its Bloomfield positioning.