In the past, a stronger performing processing unit is always a match to a decreasing battery life on portable device such as a laptop. However, that’s a story from the yesteryears anyway. Since AMD invented Fusion APUs, not only the mobile processor is faster, the battery life is also improving significantly.

AMD has recently announced a new update for their AMD Fusion APU processor by inserting the C and E-Series APUs to the market. This update bring the processor to a better HD graphic capability, DDR3 1333 support for wider memory bandwidth, faster performance and video playback, DisplyaPort ++ support and more on the support for HDMI 1.4a that is capable of displaying 3D contents.

The most interesting improvement is on the battery life. AMD Fusion C-Series APU is capable of getting long 12-hours of battery life, while the E-Series APU is a little bit over the 10-hours battery life.

Not only that, according to the information we have received, most of ultraportables that uses AMD Fusion APU are affordable. You can actually pick up a system that play HD video, 10 hours of battery life for under $399 when it’s hitting the market.

It’s interesting to see how AMD Fusion APU is going to impact the market, and how Intel will response to this attack. Can Intel’s second generation precessors defeat this technology?

[via Chipchick]

AMD Fusion APUs Getting Stronger And Better Battery Life
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Rejoice if you are have planned to get an AMD system in the near future. Recently the company has announced that they will be jumping ahead to push USB 3.0 interface integrated on their motherboard chipset and are ready for both Desktop and laptop system. While Intel is still busy developing their ThunderBolt connection, AMD has gone ahead to use the common faster ‘superspeed’ connection to grab the market attention fast. I’ve seen a lot of USB 3.0 devices, but only seen a few of ThunderBolt compatible hard drives. AMD certainly will win the match if Intel is just trying to be the purple cow without actually know what the market’s demand is.

Also, with this kind of built-in implementation, user can eliminate the need to plug an external device that could result in shorter battery life and make the laptop hotter (if you are using expresscard).

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AMD To Features USB 3.0 Interfaces On All Their Future Products
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AMD has just released the official image for their new high-performing graphic card Radeon HD 6990 series. However, beside leaking the images, there is no specification details released by AMD yet.

Despite of the complete silent at AMD side, it’s been expected that Radeon HD 6990 GPU is a combination of two HD 6970 GPUs in one PCB, which lifting the memory bandwidth to 3000GB/s, 3,000+ shaders, and 4GB dedicated VRAM on single graphic card.

However, the biggest drawback is the fact that AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphic card will consume about 300w of power, alone. That’s as high as one barebone system that can do most task you throw in! If you don’t mind, you should check your PSU if it can support this upgrade or not. No idea if it can be crossfired or not, but this single card alone is already a monster!

[via Hexus]

AMD Radeon HD 6990 Graphic Card Official Image
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After NVIDIA with their GeForce GTX 570 launched, AMD is reported in preparation of launching their latest series of Radeon HD graphic card series 6970 (cayman) and 6950 in the third week of December 2010.

It’s been said that AMD Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950 graphic cards are has a lower performance when comparing with nVidia GeForce GTS 580 series. That’s why when these brotherhood appear in the market, it would be price $50 – $70 USD lower than GeFoce GTX 580. It would be interesting to see how these cards performing in the actual benchmark.

The core specs of AMD Radeon HD 1,536 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 96 texture units and 2GB of GDDR5 memory, has 300W TDP and a lot of video out ports including two DVI ports, two Mini DisplayPorts, and an HDMI port.

[via SlashGear]

UPDATE: AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 is available for pre-order in France website.

AMD Radeon Preps HD 6970 and HD 6950 GPUs
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The Six-core or Hexa-core processor from AMD called Phenom II X6 1055T has started to rolled out and available to purchase in Japan. The processor was introduced a couple of months ago as the processor with 95W TDP that would produce less heat than the 125W processors.

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is also known as HDT55TWFK6DGR, a processor based on AM3 socket, produced with 45nm fabrication technology, has 6-core running on 2.8Ghz, 6MB of L3 cache and it has fully supported dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU is also a processor that could be overclocked like Intel Core CPUs. As for this HDT55TWFK6DGR CPU, overclockers can boost the speed of 2.8Ghz to 3.3Ghz.

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is priced at $244 in Japan, but it’s expected to sell cheaper at $200 when it hit US stores.

[via TCMagazine]

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T – The Hexa-Core Processor Has Available In Japan
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AMD has released the Cypress powered graphic card, which is the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition that have support up to six monitors on single graphic card. The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is a GPU with 850 Mzhz clock speed and 4800Mhz for memory clock speed. It has large 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM and it has support most of the modern graphic features such as DirectX 11, and it also boasting 1600 Streams of processors.

“The ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card opens the door to a new era in personal computing,” said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division. “With the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, PC users get the ultimate panoramic computing experience in one powerful card. By bridging the innovation in ATI Eyefinity technology with broad ecosystem support, AMD is revolutionizing the PC visual experience.”

This card has been released on the last day of Q1 2010, and it has been reviewed by some popular online tech sites revealing how it works including some benchmarking. If you are interested, you can read their magnificent works on the following links:

AnandTech
Guru3D
Hexus
TweakTown
HotHardware
Tom’s Hardware
PC Perspective
ExtremeTech
FiringSquad
Rage3D

The recommended price for AMD ATI Radeon HD5870 Eyefinity 6 GPU is $479.

ATI Radeon HD5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Graphic Card Review RoundUp
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AMD has rolled out their latest ATI Radeon GPU coded as HD 5970 as the world fastest graphic card. The ATI Radeon GPU is a dual-cored GPU, where you’ll get the total of 4.3-billion of 40nm transistors.

The AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 GPU support DirectX 11, Open GL 3.2, 2GB of 1000MHz GDDR5 that could provide almost 5 teraflops of performance. This graphic card is targeted to the market of gamers who play games such as Battlefield Band Company 2, Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion or DiRT 2. The ATI RADEON HD 5970 Graphic card will be retailing for $599.

[via Techfresh]

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 World’s Fastest GPU
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The great news for AMD CPU overclocker or enthusiast. Some folks have managed to break the world’s fastest clock speed for Desktop PC’s CPU at 7GHz using AMD’s Phenom II processor. This is *very fast, consider 5Ghz is the usual overclocked CPU speed that have been accomplished by several experts OC-er. Now, 7Ghz was able to achieve largely thanks to the liquid helium cooling material that could hold the AMD Phenom II temperature and make it cooler. This impressive mod and overclocking result has been recorded and made into a movie clip which you can watch it below:

Great Job, Guys! AMD is really one of the super processor that you can go wild with it.

[via Crunchgear]

AMD Breaks The Processor Speed Barrier at 7GHz
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This is not really the usual deal article that we posted on our deal section. But it’s kind of price drop announced by AMD saying they will sold their AMD Quad Core CPU, to be exactly the Athlon II X4 for $99 only. This is such a nice treat by AMD for those who build PC by their own.

According to Gadgetell, the price is absolutely the lowest, $50 cheaper that Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q8200. If you have yourself an AMD system, perhaps this is a great change to upgrade your PC so you can actually run Windows 7 next month.

Nice Deal: AMD Quad Core CPU for $99 only!
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Yes, you read it correct. A single ATI Radeon 5800 Series GPU is enough to power up to six ultra high-definition displays. And guess what, at a recent press conference AMD actually showcased this beauty.
The next gen AMD Radeon GPU is going to amaze most of us. Using only a single GPU/graphic card, you can get up to 6 HD LCDs to display your desktop view. This GPU is later nicked with ‘Eyefinity’ which is the latest AMD radeo HD 5800 graphic card model.

This could save lots of hassles in getting multiple display on single PC. The ATI Eyefinity GPU getting an eye-definition optical clarity because it’s 12 times better than 1080p. Amazing, an Ultra HD devices to give more enjoyable experiences, either for entertainment, work, or even education.

6 displays mixed together and you will get a whopping 7680 x 3200 pixels. That’s HUGE and the demonstration was using Dell monitors, looks very tempting for gamers and hardcore video editing freaks.

AMD Radeon HD 5800 video card will be released later on this month, so get your money ready if you want to own this freaking cool graphic card. Also remember to get 6 HD LCD monitors to test out the ability!

[via TechConnect]

AMD Radeon HD 5800 Eyefinity GPU to Power Six Ultra HD LCDs
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ATI Radeon has a new family member add to their family line. It’s all thanks to AMD to released their latest high-end graphic card for professional. The code name is ATI FirePro V8750, a GPU designed especially for workstations or server.

ATI FirePro V8750 has 55nm manufacturing fabs RV770 GPU, 800 stream processor and whopping 2GB GDDR5 memory with 115.2GB/s memory bandwidth. This is huge amount of bandwidth provided and the graphic card also have a Dual Link DVI port and DisplayPort outputs. Again, this is another Super-priced gadgets after the Taser Gun X3. Buy one of this is enough to get one base rig of Alienware M17x…

Digital content creation and high end CAD users have been held hostage to high-priced solutions for advanced rendering. The ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation graphics accelerator delivers unparalleled performance and two GB of frame buffer memory for less than $1,800 MSRP. Creative and engineering professionals can now afford the powerful graphics they deserve.

– Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics

(via TCMagazine)

AMD Intro New ATI FirePro V8750 Professional 3D GPU
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For AMD fans, the company has just released two more AMD Athlon II X2 processor coded as 240 and 245 with both a 45nm manufacturing fabs processor. The 240 has the speed of 2.8Ghz, while the 245 has a little bit faster speed at 2.9Ghz. Both has 2MB of L2 cache, hypertransport speed at 4000Mhz and 65W TDP. The AMD Processor will hit the store soon with price tag of $67.

(via 2Day and TechFresh)

AMD Introduce Athlon II X2 240 and 245 45nm Processors
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Good news for AMD processor lover, they are going to launch their super performance processor – the Phenom II X4 965 black Edition soon with clock speed at 3.4Ghz.

According to TCMagazine, this Processor is 200Mhz higher than the previous Phenom II X4 955, and it has comes with 6MB of L3 cache, memory controller for DDR2 or DDR3, up to 4000 MHz HyperTransport and TDP of 125W. Well, lots of jargon here, so don’t confused by them if you are not the techie-guy. All you have to know is this processor is a 45nm processor (low heat), and you can pretty much overclock it to a good speed to kill your games.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 black edition will be available soon for above $250. The exact pricing will be revealed once it has become available.

(via TechConnect Magazine)

AMD to launch Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
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Here is a killer deal for you who haven’t taste the Quad Core of AMD and the prettiness of Vista Ultimate OEM. Newegg has a combo deal that sound pretty good. There is a $75 discount if you purchase both of the item for for $214.98 ( price before discount: $290).

Detail Specs for AMD Phenom 9600 Agena Processor:

• Model HD960ZWCGDBOX
• Socket AM2+
• Core Agena
• Quad Core Series
• Clock Speed 2.3Ghz
• Hyper Transports 3600MHz
• Manufacturing Tech 65 nm
• More …

Combo Deal: Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit and AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Processor
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DirectX 10.1 on AMD Graphic Cards

AMD is talking about the Newer version of DirectX 10.1 right now. This version of DirectX is going to outperform DirectX 10 version and provide up to 10% better frame rates for the supported games.

DirectX 10.1 is intended for the newest version of Windows OS, the Windows 7 which predicted would be available this mid 2009. According to AMD, most of their Graphic Card lines are DirectX 10.1 supported but nVidia side are not.

(source: SlipperyBrick)

AMD Goes DirectX 10.1
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