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AMD launches new notebook graphics flagship Radeon 8790M
Attention mobile graphics fiends: AMD says its claiming the crown for the "world's fastest notebook graphics card" with its newly unveiled Radeon HD 8970M.
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AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit
Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market.
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iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 1
The truth is out there, in blurry, "leaked" photos of the iPad 5 rear shell, which is just the right size for the compost pile of iOSphere rumors. One thing seems certain: iPad 5 will be rectangular.
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AMD led consortium takes on multicore programming barriers
Programming for multicore systems can be complex, so an industry consortium led by Advanced Micro Devices has taken a step ahead in its goal to eliminate development challenges so applications are portable across devices, architectures and operating systems
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Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer
Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.
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Titan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system
The world?s fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative fuels.
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Adoption of DDR4 memory facing delays
The memory market is feeling the effects of a fall in PC shipments with the subsequent stabilisation of DRAM prices, which industry observers say will delay the wide adoption of the upcoming DRAM called DDR4.
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AMD's new laptop chips inspired by mobile devices, gaming consoles
As demand for PC processors plummets, Advanced Micro Devices has borrowed technologies from mobile devices and gaming consoles as a way to perk up sales for its latest A-series laptop processors that were introduced on Tuesday.
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Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators in one of its laboratories.
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Tilera developing chip with more than 100 cores
After a lull, the race to add more processor cores to chips continues. Tilera is developing a new chip that will have more than 100 processor cores as the company looks to outperform ARM and Intel processors in Web-specific tasks.
