Over two years ago, I wrote an article called “The End of the Era of Speed.” That article talked about CPUs, though we did note later on that it was a matter of time before the GPUs caught up. Well,
The Inquirer reports that AMD fabs can and will make ATI GPUs. Well, they needed to do something with Fab 30! One little-known fact about Fab 30 was that when the various German governments agreed to subsidize its construction, AMD
BACKGROUND I had some issues with my desktop computer which forced me to use my notebook extensively – well, actually exclusively (had to RMA the Mobo, CPU and GPU). Normally I use it forabout 5 to 30 minutes; occasionally I’ll
In the Core2Duo introduction yesterday, Intel said that it would put out a million of these chips in the next seven weeks, then tried to paint it as a great achievement. I’d like to say, “That’s nice,” except that’s not
The average person reading this (or any other computer hardware forum) tends to be very allergic to money talk. They don’t terribly want to hear it; they often don’t find it relevant to what they’re interested in. The problem is
After looking through a number of forums, the general question being most often asked about the AMD/ATI merger is, “What happens to nVidia?” We’ll try to answer some of questions falling into that general category in this article. If you’d
SUMMARY: Much better than dial-up and worth paying! The Internet Point I used – I stitched this pic together with Photoshop – the gondola is a bit off. As much as I love Venice, one of the things that drives
Well, I guess this AMD-ATI talk wasn’t talk. 🙂 Understand that the problems with this deal are not technological, but financial. This is like emptying your bank account to make the down payment on a new car you’re buying after
There’s been a lot of confusion as to when AMD plans to get 1) K8L processors out and 2) when quadcores will show up. AMD’s conference call a few days ago cleared much of this up. The first K8L processor
Your stock price has dropped over 50% in the last four months, hitting a 52-week low, mostly because you’re going into a price war with the market leader, who is bringing in products for which the only answer you have
