Month: November 2007

The Phenoms debuted today are not competitive against C2Ds: clock-for-clock, overclock-for-overclock, watt-for-watt, not even bang-for-buck. Other than all that, they’re great! After all, it will have a really good software overclocking utility (after they work the bugs out)! Seriously, folks,

AMD is saying that triple-core processors will become available the second quarter of 2008. The only problem is AMD said two months ago that they would be out the first quarter of 2008. Here’s the AMD press release announcing just

In case you’re wondering what the title is about, one of the governmen-owned investment firms of the UAE emirate of Abu Dhabi, Mubadala Development, is going to buy $700 million of newly issued AMD stock We Told You So (sort

I sit here bemused by the reviews of the HD3850/HD3870 I’ve seen. They all seem to be written by dual-core processors. Not with duallies, but by duallies. What do I mean by that? It seems like two people wrote the

This isn’t coming out of nowhere. No doubt, this is a sale/leaseback arrangement, one that will cost AMD money in the long run, but could hold off the wolf for a while. I suspect AMD and their various German lenders

In the last few days, we’ve had a few announcements that will probably look a lot more important ten years from now than they do today. Phoenix Technologies announced Hyperspace, which is basically a quick-and-dirty embedded Linux system for those