An Overclocker from Ukraine, named T0LSTY, has overclocked two cores of the AMD FX-8350 CPU to 8.37 GHz.
  The record has been achieved using a MSI 990FXA-GD80 motherboard.
  The previous record of the FX-8350, 8.176 GHz, was achieved on all 8 cores.

   AMD is proud with the performance obtained by the Opteron 6300 series, the new generation of processors for servers with Piledriver cores.
   According to the manufacturer, the Opteron 6300 chips,  offers higher performance, 24% higher than the previous generation and an increased ratio of performance/energy consumed by 40% per watt compared to Intel Xeon.
   AMD offers ten models of the new series with prices from $293 to $1,392.
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   According to some rumors the next gaming console made by Sony, PlayStation 4, also known as Orbis, will be powerd by a modified version of the AMD A10 APU and the developers have received a configuration in a PC chase along with the new dev kit.
   The console is expected to have 8GB or 16GB amount of RAM and might have a option for a SSD storing space solution.
   The next PlayStation will bring a updated version of its Blu-ray drive, also will have the same input/output connectors as PlayStation 3.
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   AMD's new FX CPUs the utilizes multi-core architecture Piledriver, with up to 15% better performance than   the previous generation.
   Piledriver architecture used by the latest AMD FX was designed for multi-threaded applications: creation of audio/video and the best gaming experience
   AMD has launched 4 processors from this series:
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    Soon we will have Windows 8 tablets based on the AMD hardware, these tablets will be cheaper than the alternatives based on Intel  Clover Trail and will have an unbeatable 3D performance.
   The new superstar is the AMD Z-60 APU, codenamed Hondo, which the company will bring on the market later this year, propelling a new wave of Windows 8 tablets.
  The elements of attraction for future Windows 8 tablets with AMD hardware are: the x86 compatibility with PC applications, autonomy up to 10 hours on a tablet and can attach to a docking station with keyboard and mouse for converting the tablet into a notebook.
  Unlike Clover Trail platform with Intel Atom processor, the new AMD chip focuses primarily on 3D skills, announcing gaming performance even 5-6 times higher than is possible with an Intel tablet, which opens new horizons for Windows 8 tablets. Basically, tablets with AMD's APU could get a whole new utility, serving as gaming platforms with access to titles that we expect to meet only on a console or on PC systems.
   According to AMD, on Windows 8 tablets built on their platform you can play games like Modern Warefare 2 and Orcs Must Die at medium quality settings and a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. For movies you can  attach a TV or monitor with HDMI and play them at a resolutions up to 1920x1200 pixels. However, AMD recommends that for the best viewing of the videos to confine ourselves to materials with 720p resolution.
   AMD Z-60's power consumption will be less than 5W , which accommodate in the tablets under 10mm thickness and weight comparable to conventional tablets with ARM processors. Autonomy varies from 6 hours for watching movies,  8 hours for surfing on the internet or up to 10 hours on the Windows Presentation Mode, of  the text documents and PowerPoint presentations. According to AMD, the autonomy for standby is almost 2 weeks.
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   Back in June we mentioned that AMD’s upcoming D4 Bolton chipset does come with FM2+ support but back then we were lacking some details.
   It turns out that Bolton D4 is just a new version of the A85X chipset that will have better support for Richland processors. AMD has already officially confirmed that Trinity refresh in 2013 comes in the new 28nm process and we found out that the current schedule for Richland processor is late Q2 2013 launch.
   We also heard from AMD that the FM2 infrastructure is here to stay and that the future processor including FM2 based Richland will work in FM2 boards. It remains unclear if Richland qualifies as a FM2+ processor that simply works in all FM2 motherboards.
   The long-term strategy is to stick with the same socket for a longer than just one generation, as this was always a side of AMD that many fans appreciated.
   The Bolton D3 chipset will also support both FM2 and FM2+ parts and comes without four USB 3.0 connectors but it allows cheaper motherboard to hit the market.
You should not have any doubts, Windows 8 will work just fine on Trinity and Richland and they are pretty nice processors in their respective price ranges.
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   The first DDR4 modules have been in testing for quite some time now and even the first memory controller’s designs are ready for mass production, but DRAM makers are now yet willing make the switch.
   DDR3 modules are dirt cheap right now and this is really not desirable not for the DRAM makers nor for the module manufacturers, but the industry is simply not ready for DDR4 and won’t be for the next 12 months.
   In a very interesting and informative meeting we had with Kingston’s European Product Development Manager, Mr. Stephane Rizzetto broke the news to us.
   DDR4 will not land on the PC market during the next year.
   Neither Intel nor AMD will have any kind of platform for the new memory type, no matter what market segment is in question.
   Some were hoping that the expensive LGA2011 platform from Intel will receive an upgrade or an annoyingly slightly different LGA2012 will bring the much awaited upgrade, but this will not happen.
   Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 now brings support for 4TB of RAM memory for a single server and DDR3 is now cheap enough to be able to fill the market’s virtualization needs.
   AMD and Intel are taking different routes to improve performance of their platforms.
Intel is likely to use Crystalwell cache-like concept and AMD is working hard to make the iGPU and CPU collaborate better with simultaneous memory access for the two.
   When it is finally introduced, DDR4 will be less interesting for desktop PC enthusiasts as it will likely not offer any significant improvement over DDR3 2133 MHz and will also be considerably more expensive.
   What DDR4 will actually bring is high module density, with modules starting at the 8 GB mark, and 16 GB ones being available at launch.
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   There is more to Trinity than A-series APUs. AMD also has a few Athlon processors based on the new architecture and they should end up on the cheap side.
   A British retailer is listing two of them, the Athlon II X4 740X and the Athlon II X4 750X for £46 and £53 respectively. Although we are talking about crippled Trinity chips, sans graphics and turbo, the prices look pretty good and the Athlons will probably end up just marginally more expensive than dual-core Trinity APUs.
   The Athlon II X4 740X comes in clocked at 3.2GHz and features a 65W TDP. It packs four Piledriver cores and 4MB of L2 cache. The unlocked Athlon II X4 750K is also a quad, but it’s a 100W part clocked at 3.4GHz. Another Athlon is on the way, but we still don’t have the price. However, the Athlon II X4 730 is the slowest of the bunch, a 2.8GHz part with a 65W TDP, so it should end up even cheaper.
   The new Athlons look like a pretty good choice for gamers on a very tight budget or basically anyone looking for a modestly priced all-rounder with discrete graphics.

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   AMD announced the availability of the second generation of APUs, Trinity, for desktop PCs, small and home theater.
   The second generation of AMD APUs Desktop Series are available at prices between $ 53 and 122 dollars.

   AMD has joined forces with BlueStacks in an effort to bring Android apps to Windows tablets. BlueStacks is the outfit behind Android App Player, a Windows app that enables users to run Android apps on tablets.
   Since AMD is not in the ARM game, it could obviously benefit from bringing some popular Android apps to Windows, allowing users to play a few levels of Bad Piggies on Hondo tablets.
   However, apps have to be vetted before users can take end up on the AMD AppZone, but it is also possible to install other applications.
The BlueStacks Android Player will also run on Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs, and it even supports Windows XP.
   In the long run, the possibility of running Android apps could be very interesting for consumers thinking about getting a Windows 8 tablet, as it will combine Microsoft’s unmatched enterprise solutions with fun and popular Android apps. Provided the whole thing works as advertised, of course.
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   The company’s new A10 “Trinity” APUs will come with a new and interesting RAM drive technology. This is the first time a processor manufacturer has officially supported such an implementation.
   Fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based AMD has partnered with Patriot Memory to start making and selling AMD-branded and optimized memory modules.
   The modules are already present on the market and, while they’re not the best-selling modules available, they do provide AMD customers with a certified and optimized DRAM option that also comes with support for automatic overclocking through specific AMD settings support.
   Now the company will bundle a special utility with its APUs that will allow the user to create a RAM partition with a capacity of up to 64 GB.
   The user can copy its game directory onto this partition or any other program that he uses frequently and will benefit greatly from the faster data transfer.
   This way, any type of disk file handling such as game load time, game level time or large file professing will be greatly accelerated with performance increases that will reach and surpass the 500% mark.
   RAM drives have existed for quite some time now and the software needed to implement them has been available for years, but this is the first time AMD or any CPU maker has supported such an implementation.
   AMD’s official support will ensure stability and reliability as well as prolonged life span of your SSD or your hard drive.
  As the durability of SSDs is probably the main issue of this market sector, using AMD’s RAMDisk could really make a difference by increasing the performance level significantly beyond what the SSD was able to deliver as well as reducing the wear on the NAND flash inside it.
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   World’s largest fabless chip designer, American company Qualcomm is used to design its own mobile CPUs and their respective integrated graphics processing units (iGPU). We know that the company’s famous Snapdragon processors are based on the ARM architecture, but the designs are original.
   Many other ARM CPU makers usually license the graphics IP from companies like Imagination Technologies or ARM.
   Qualcomm is making its own iGPUs also and the architecture inside the Adreno series has nothing to do with ARM and everything to do with AMD instead.
   The Adreno architecture was initially developed by AMD, and Qualcomm has just bought the entire mobile division form the Texan company.
   Even today’s Adreno iGPUs are based on AMD’s mobile DirectX 9 designs from back in the day. Qualcomm is reportedly having problems in designing a satisfactory DirectX 11 architecture, and the company is looking at AMD for the solution.
   Rumors say that the fabless giant might go so far as buying AMD, but we’re having a hard time believing that.
   Even so, considering that AMD’s ex graphics CTO, Mr. Eric Demmers is now Qualcomm’s main graphics guy, there is the possibility of a future collaboration between the two companies.
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  The new generation of AMD servers includes storage space for 1408 HDD or SSD with a total capacity of 5 million GB. SM15000 was developed by AMD with SeaMicro technologies, a company acquired earlier this year for $ 334 million U.S. dollars.
  The new SM15000 was developed as a solution for storing of large volumes of information in the cloud and is compatible with platforms like Hadoop and Cassandra that  typically uses hundreds of computers.

  This AMD system can include up to 64 chips called "compute card", each with up to 8 processors. At the moment it only uses Intel Sandy Bridge processors, but in November will be available with AMD Piledriver and Intel Ivy Bridge.
  The AMD initiative is an alternative that significantly reduces the space required for storage in a modern data center .

During this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany, Chinese company Lenovo has decided to announce its new thin and light series of notebooks called the S series. The new product line is powered by Intel’s processors and AMD’s mobile GPUs while there are also models using AMD’s APUs only.
The first and most expensive member of the new S series from Lenovo is the S300.
This is a thin and light notebook powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card.
The diagonal size of the screen measures 13” and body color is white while the keyboard is black.
The second on the list is the S400 that also comes equipped with Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card. The mobile system can feature a 500 GB HDD and also has a 32 GB SSD to boost the overall responsiveness and degrease boot time.
Lenovo’s S405 is surprisingly positioned as a top solution featuring an AMD A8 APU with four x86 processing cores, a 1TB HDD and the same 32 GB SSD that the S400 has.
The S400 and S405 are 14” notebooks and there are more different color schemes such as white, black, red, silver and apparently pink.
All the systems in the new Lenovo S series are not positioned as UltraBooks, but are clearly quite thin and quite light.
They all weigh a maximum of 1.8 Kg and that's just under 4 pounds while being just 21.9 millimeters thick (0.87 inches).
The starting price is $500 (400 EUR) and it will vary slightly depending on the configuration.
The way Lenovo likes to put it, the S series have a long battery life just like netbooks, but come with the processing power of a notebook, lacking the price premium of an UltraBook.
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American fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based company AMD is stealthily introducing a new revision of the HD 7750 GPU that has an increased default frequency. The reason for this move is either the recent Nvidia GTX 650 and 650 Ti launches , or the simple fact that AMD’s GCN chips have very good yields.
We’re inclined to think that the motivation is a combination of the two.
The new cards are reportedly using the same cooling system, but they feature a slightly different PCB.
The cooling system has remained exactly the same, as the “Cape Verde” GPU is a very cool piece of technology when compared with other GPUs, but we would have liked to see more custom single-slot designs.
The PCB is a little larger, making it exactly like a HD 7770 PCB in dimensions and weight.
On the new HD 7750, the GPU is clocked at 900 MHz instead of the 800 Mhz we were used to see on the “older” HD 7750 video cards.
It seems like the price will stay the same so the casual gamers going for an AMD Radeon HD 7750 video card should enjoy the better performance for free.
The Radeon HD 7750 graphics processing unit is clocked at 900 MHz when working in full load 3D mode.
In 2D mode, the frequency of the GPU will drop to a low 300 MHz.
The GPU has a very small 123-square millimeter die size, containing 1.5 billion transistors containing 512 unified shader processors, 32 texturing units and 16 ROPs.
The “full” “Cape Verde” comes with 640 shaders and 40 texturing units, but that’s the Radeon HD 7770, and the HD 7750 version has some of the units inactive that add to the 100 MHz GPU frequency handicap.
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Although AMD’s focus has shifted to APUs, the company is not about to kill off its legendary Athlon brand anytime soon.
CPU World reports that AMD is planning to refresh the Athlon II X4 lineup with three Piledriver parts for the new socket FM2 platform, but we don’t have a launch date yet.
The Athlon II X4 730 is a 2.8GHz part with a 65W TDP, while the Athlon II X4 740 comes in clocked at 3.2GHz and features the same TDP. Both pack four Piledriver fours and 4MB of L2 cache.
The unlocked Athlon II X4 750K is also a quad-core, but it’s a 100W part clocked at 3.4GHz.
There is still no word on Turbo clocks, although it is very likely the new Athlons will feature Turbo Core technology. Also, no word on pricing yet, but since we are talking about Piledriver parts with no graphics, they should end up on the cheap side.
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We have already know that AMD FX 8350 is a 4GHz eight-core, capable of hitting 4.2GHz on Turbo, in a 125W.
It turns out that AMD is working on two more Vishera eight-cores.
The AMD FX 8300 is also an eight-core processor with a 95W TDP that still has 16MB of cache and works at 3.3GHz default clock or 3.2GHz on Turbo. This processor looks really attractive due to the somewhat lower TDP. The rest of the specification is still the same, DDR3 1866 memory, AM3+ 32nm SOI and eight-cores. This part has a real chance of being really popular, at least if the price is right.
The runner up is called AMD FX 8320 and is an eight-core with 16MB cache at 3.5GHz that can get to 4.0GHz on Turbo. It is still a 32nm SOI part with a 125W TDP that supports DDR3 1866 memory and comes in AMD’s AM3+ package.
They all should show up in late October according to current plans which point to an early Q4 2012 launch. For many value minded consumers these chips might be a great pre-Thanksgiving / Xmas treat and they will be a good basis for mid-range gaming rigs. We are sure that these parts will have some very attractive pricing as the fastest AMD FX 8150 Zambezi core currently sells for €173 or $199 in States. This is truly a good price for such a part.
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AMD is working on three new Vishera platform Zambezi 32nm processors featuring enhanced turbo core technology. They are all developed in 32nm SOI technology, slapped in an AM3+ package and they are compatible with AM3+ motherboards, no surprise there.
As you can imagine there is an eight-core, six-core and a quad-core. They also come with DDR3 1866 support which is officially the highest speed supported by a retail product.
The top notch AMD FX 8350 is an eight-core with an unlocked multiplier and is faster than the 3.6GHz FX 8150. Its turbo speed is also faster than 4.2GHz that you also find at FX 8150, but as you’ve probably guessed by now, we don’t know the exact clocks. We can confirm that it will pack 16MB cache, that it has an unlocked multiplier and it should be at 125W TDP part.
It looks to us that it is coming in mid Q3 2012 so you should probably be able to get it before the back to school period or before fall (autumn) in the Northern hemisphere. The FX 6300 is a six-core, basically a faster iteration of the 3.8GHz clocked FX 6200 and it’s turbo will work at more than 4.1GHz. It comes with 14MB cache as the two cores are disabled at this native eight core design and we suspect that this might be the first 4GHz natively six-core ever.
The FX 4320 is a quad-core and again it replaces a Zambezi quad-core called AMD FX 4170 clocked at 4.2GHz native and 4.3GHz with turbo overclocking and it will come with 12MB cache and 125W TDP.
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AMD's desktop Trinity APUs are already detailed at AMD's website and although there have been some rumours of these parts possible being delayed, AMD says that parts are incoming and all seems well in Trinity land. In case you missed them, the initial batch will feature a total of four parts with either 100W or 65W TDP.
The lineup starts with a flagship A10-5800K quad-core APU that works at 3.8GHz base and 4.2GHz Turbo clock and features Radeon DH 7660D graphics part cwith 384 stream processors and 800MHz GPU clock. The A10-5700 is a similar part, but without the K "unlocked" moniker, and works at 3.4GHz base and 4.0GHz Turbo clock. It features the same Radeon HD 7660D graphics part but with a slightly slower 760MHz GPU clock.
The next two in line are part of the A8-series including A8-5600K and A8-5500. The A8-5600K works at 3.6GHz with 3.9GHz Turbo while the A8-5500 works at 3.2GHz base and 3.7GHz Turbo clock. Both of the A8-series APUs feature Radeon HD 7560D graphics part with 256 stream processors and 760MHz GPU clock.
The unlocked A10-5800K and A8-5600K will have a 100W TDP while the non-unlocked ones will have a 65W TDP. The entire lineup feature a quad-core CPU part based on Piledriver architecture, feature 4MB of L2 cache, fit into FM2 socket and have support for DDR3-1866 memory.
As noted, there has been a couple of rumours stating that these parts might be delayed, but according to our info and statement provided by AMD for Hadwarecanucks.com, all is well in Trinity world. We have been told that parts are shipping and that OEMs should announce their systems with AMD desktop Trinity parts pretty soon.
The actual retail/e-tail parts were always scheduled to appear later this year (second half of 2012 according to AMD) and AMD was foucsed on OEM systems as part of their initial rollout of Trinity APUs.
Of course, we will surely keep an eye out for these parts.
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