Month: February 2008

The fixed, B3 versions of the current Phenoms are supposed to out sometime in April. Presumably, AMD will try to make more than a relative handful of these once they’re out. Just when you think AMD can breathe easily, though,

Dell has decided to de emphasize AMD. Both AMD and Dell have tried to spin this into a nonevent, but that’s putting lipstick on a pig. This is bad news, period. You don’t do this when you’re doing well with

XBitLabs recently reviewed the upcoming low-end Penryn quad Q9300. They spent more than a bit of time trying to overclock it, and found that they were rather constrained by the chip’s low (7.5X) multiplier and high (333MHz) FSB. Faced with

More Delays Look for yourself. Please note that “order availability date” means when a distributor can order the product, not when you can get it. As a connoisseur of AMD misdirection and misinformation, I sort of liked AMD “cancelling” two

AMD is beginning to hype its 45nm chips. You’d think they would have learned their lesson last year, and indeed they did learn something from last year, though the wrong lesson. Last year, they spit out what at least looked