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Hardware Nov 12, 2012

Industry's most powerful server graphics card, exceeding one TFLOPS of peak double precision performance, introduced

AMD today launched the AMD FirePro S10000, the industry's most powerful server graphics card, designed for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and graphics intensive applications. The AMD FirePro S10000 is the first ...

Hardware Nov 5, 2012

AMD rolls out 6300 server chips for higher performance / watt

(Phys.org)—Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Monday announced its launch of 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips. This is its newest series in server processors based on the chip designer's Piledriver core architecture. The ...

Consumer & Gadgets Oct 19, 2012

Surface is Microsoft's latest weapon in mobile-device battle

Is a Microsoft Surface tablet priced at $499 good enough to entice you away from that Apple iPad you might be considering?

Business Oct 18, 2012

AMD to cut nearly 1,800 jobs or 15 pct of workers

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says it will cut nearly 1,800 jobs, about 15 percent of its workforce, by the end of the year in order to reduce spending in the face of dwindling sales.

Business Oct 10, 2012

Global PC sales set to drop in 2012: survey

Global sales of personal computers are set to show a decline for the first time in 11 years, a new forecast showed Wednesday.

Hardware Oct 9, 2012

AMD-based HP servers shatter performance record by 40 percent

AMD today announced that a cluster of HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 servers utilizing AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors has achieved the highest VMmark 2.1 score ever posted, representing a 40 percent increase over the next best ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Sep 24, 2012

Uh-oh, Intel. Globalfoundries to fast-forward into 14nm

(Phys.org)—Globalfoundries has made an announcement that amounts to a direct challenge to Intel, in the latter's race to get further ahead in the mobile device ecosystem. Both Globalfoundries and Intel will be racing for ...

Environment Sep 10, 2012

Increase in metal concentrations in Rocky Mountain watershed tied to warming temperatures

(Phys.org)—Warmer air temperatures since the 1980s may explain significant increases in zinc and other metal concentrations of ecological concern in a Rocky Mountain watershed, reports a new study led by the U.S. Geological ...

Consumer & Gadgets Sep 3, 2012

HP unveils innovative multitouch hybrid PC and ultrabooks

HP today announced three consumer notebooks featuring multitouch displays, including a uniquely designed hybrid PC that gives people more choice in how they access information.

Hardware Aug 29, 2012

AMD whets Steamroller appetite at Hot Chips

(Phys.org)—Some might think of AMD as the chip design market underdog, but that underdog raised interest this week when the company's CTO, Mark Papermaster, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, presented a ...

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