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AMD Touring

By Steve Gibson, Jun 17, 2001 6:55am PDT

TheColdShop took a visit to AMD and got a tour. If you're an AMD fanboy you'll love this stuff! If you arent an AMD fanboy I suggest you get an AMD...

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" I'd be willing to bet that cameras are not allowed. It's not a show for the press, it's for ..."

- Barbarian see all 15 comments

AMD Going For 30% Marketshare

By Maarten Goldstein, Jun 12, 2001 1:44pm PDT

AMD is going strong in its battle against Intel, and is track to meet their projected market share. They hope for 30% at the end of the year. AMD...

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"#24, So The other ame people are now stuck with Netware legacy crap, an OS that barely runs 1/10 ..."

- indeego see all 28 comments

AMD Hits 1.4GHz

By Steve Gibson, Jun 06, 2001 6:08am PDT

AMD is having a good ol' time releasing stuff lately. The 1.4GHz chip has just been announced as releasing and you can check out the articles and...

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"They need to have a good ol' time releasing some 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 Palimino desktop ..."

- el-kaboom see all 6 comments

AMD's Star Wars 2 Use

By Maarten Goldstein, Jun 05, 2001 11:37am PDT

Use the force AMD, use the force! AMD's press release about their MP platform quotes Star Wars: Episode 2 producer Rick McCallum who mentions that...

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" works great so far. DDR RAM is cool, as is getting 60fps average in Tribes2 (haven't had it ..."

- timmie see all 26 comments

AMD Goes Dual

By Maarten Goldstein, Jun 05, 2001 7:33am PDT

AMD finally has dual-cpu up and running and you can read all about it and have all the benchmarks you can handle at most of the hardware pages out...

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" yeah... oc'd like hell you do, and don't even THINK of telling me otherwise. i test machines ..."

- koneill see all 59 comments

AMD 1.4GHz Soon

By Steve Gibson, Jun 03, 2001 7:42am PDT

AMD is getting ready to announce their spanking new 1.4GHz chip at the upcoming trade show in Computex happening in Taiwan. More than likely the...

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"Excellent editorial commentary Steve. This is why you win so many journalism awards. Also, you ..."

- Lord BEEF see all 26 comments

Athlon4 Mobile Chip

By Maarten Goldstein, May 14, 2001 7:01am PDT

AMD is launching the Athlon 4 today, as a mobile chip to compete with Intel. The Athlon 4 will be launched at 1Ghz, and the new Duron will be...

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" didn't say (at least in the 5 minutes i was watching) it took 5 minutes just for them to say ..."

- Doom see all 18 comments

AMD Names Athlon4

By Steve Gibson, May 10, 2001 10:48am PDT

AMD has chosen a name for their upcoming next-gen chip and as a little snip at the Intel guys they are going with the name "Athlon 4" to...

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" Not really. Classic Athlon used 1/2 clock cache speed (and 1/3 i think for higher end ones), ..."

- booyaka see all 22 comments

Dual Athlon June 4

By Maarten Goldstein, May 06, 2001 11:06am PDT

The Inquirer is reporting that AMD will be releasing its Dual Athlon platform on June 4. Several mobo makers have got products ready to run the...

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"450W is probably the maximum required wattage for a fully configured platform. The power budget ..."

- lexisgruven see all 123 comments

Cheaper AMD Processors

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 30, 2001 10:05am PDT

The Inquirer is reporting that AMD has confirmed price cuts today. Soon you should be able to pick up a 1.33Ghz Athlon for around $183. That's...

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" I actually meant a full-blown Geforce2 -- like the Ultra. MX is fine -- I was just looking for ..."

- Ride-My-Rocket see all 65 comments

AMD Clawhammer - Size Matters?

By Steve Gibson, Apr 27, 2001 9:40am PDT

A few people have pointed the way to this article on CNET with word that AMD's next-gen CPU will be about the same size as their current ones....

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" how hot is damn hot? do you have a decent case/do you have the cover on your case? do you have ..."

- Turd Ferguson see all 12 comments

AMD April Price Cuts

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 26, 2001 7:09am PDT

If you're thinking about upgrading your AMD processor, just wait a little while longer as AMD will be cutting prices come April 30. Although...

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"So...... I wonder if this is a precurser (sp?) to Palamino coming out?"

- el-kaboom see all 11 comments

VIA KT266: Revised

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 16, 2001 6:34am PDT

AnandTech has posted a revised review of the VIA KT266, the latest DDR ram chipset for AMD platforms. Compared to some other sites, the KT266 at...

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" Haven't got a clue man. I haven't been keeping up much since I got my 900."

- el-kaboom see all 15 comments

VIA KT266 Review

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 10, 2001 7:48am PDT

Over at AnandTech is a review of the VIA KT266 DDR chipset, VIA's offering for the AMD platform. As usual there are all kinds of memory bandwidth...

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New AMD Prices

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 05, 2001 6:41am PDT

The Inquirer is reporting of the latest AMD processor prices. They are getting silly cheap. Thunderbird 750 for $95, and the 1.3Ghz Tbird for a...

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