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  Looks like AMD will be able to flaunt its DirectX 11 silicon for more time than expected. If the rumor flying post-Computex is to be believed, Nvidia’s answer to AMD’s DirectX 11 card (due later this year) will be sometime in the first half of 2010. This is because Nvidia is said to be [...]

  AMD is proudly showing the world’s first graphics processor supporting DirectX 11 at the Computex. AMD says ATI graphics card combined with DirectX 11 will give consumers an ultimate experience because the cards can benefit from DirectX 11 features like tessellation and compute shader. The shader and ATI DirectX 11 card will make Windows [...]

  Well, this was on the cards but no one imagined the European Commission will impose such a heavy fine. Intel has been fined 1.06 billion euros or 1.45 billion US dollars because of business tactics used by them to crush the competition. The fine in fact, is the highest ever imposed by the EC [...]

  AMD has launched its first GPU based on 40nm manufacturing process. The energy efficient HD 4770 ATI Radeon card is Windows 7 ready and boasts the same 4000 Series GPU features but at a very convincing price tag. Anticipated at around $99, the card has GDDR5 memory, support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFireX technology, HDMI [...]

  After being sighted in the wild and getting an extensive review, AMD has officially announced HD 4890 bragging 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, making it the fastest GPU available in the market. The card’s got a GB of GDDR5 memory, 800 stream processing units, DirectX 10.1 support and CrossfireX support. The card also features [...]

  Seagate and AMD have partnered to show the world, the next generation SATA interface that is capable of transferring data up to 6Gigabit/second. In the demonstration, Seagate showed off two SATA HDDs – a 3Gb/s Barracuda 7200.12 drive and the 6Gb/s prototype Barracuda drive, both powered on AMD’s prototype chipset. The benchmark tests displayed [...]

  AMD introduced a new GPU aimed at the enterprise market. The ATI Firepro 2450 is a low profile dual GPU card that allows to plug in up to four monitors simultaneously via both DVI or VGA. It has 512MB of memory, consumes less than 18 watts, PCI Express 2.0 and has DirectX 10.1 support. [...]

  AMD announced the world’s first 40nm based GPUs for notebooks. Based on 40nm fabrication means good graphics power on a smaller die and allows laptop companies to integrate discrete GPUs in a small notebook. The Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon HD 4860 are the first pair offering full 1080p playback, HDMI-out, DirectX 10.1 support, [...]

  Qualcomm announced that they have acquired some part of the graphics and multimedia technology assets from AMD. The deal also includes intellectual property and other resources that were a part of AMD’s handheld arm. Qualcomm has its intention clear with this buyout. They will integrate AMD’s graphics prowess into their system-on-chip (SoC) product, more [...]

  AMD at CES announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series GPUs for laptops. Bringing all the coolness of the desktop HD 4000 Series, the Mobility variant of HD 4000 will also support DirectX 10.1, HD content playback and CrossFireX technology. Different 4XXX series will further target different categories like HD 4300 for thin [...]

  AMD is turning on the heat with its onslaught of graphics cards. First, they announced two pocket friendly cards and now a mid-range high-definition GPU aimed to take on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GT. AMD has made the card pretty identical in features but gives an edge to its offering than 9800GT. HD 4830 hails from [...]

  AMD is turning out to be a messiah for cheap gamers. They have rolled out ATI Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350 graphics card which is light on pocket and has a performance comparable to a high-end graphics card. Both the cards are built on the same technology as HD 4800 Series and integrate [...]