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Back at the end of 2007 you didn’t hear much about AMD Here’s what’s happened in the last three months:
Tom Says: “Intel was peddling technology that it knew to be somewhere between four and eight years behind AMD's” (In 2007) http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/05/ahead_of_the_cu_4.html?source=rss
World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell and Opteron processors http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
HP ProLiant DL785 G5 takes #1- 8-processor Windows result with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors] ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/dl785g5_2tsapsd_may08.pdf
HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes #1 4P worldwide price/performance record on TPC-C benchmark ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/DL585G5_top4Ppriceperf_TPCC_033108.pdf
AMD Puma mobile HD 1080p IGP. Supports DirectX10 graphics, delivers 3x the performance of laptops with Intel GMA X3100 graphics. http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1337/hp-laptops-on-puma-080612/ http://apcmag.com/amd_puma_pads_softly_into_100_notebooks.htm http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=178 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMs5DXBja-A
AMD's mainstream chip can do more FLOPS than NVIDIA enthusiast chips, and AMD's coming high-end chips will pack twice the FLOPS... AMD\ATI RV770 series 4850 video card hits at 1Tera Flop using 800 Shader Processors. ($89-$300 retail) http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7841.html http://techreport.com/articles.x/14261
Watch a HD 1080p movie while decoding another one in the background on AMD $650.00 PC (Retail) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V741rSx3-5U
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Back at the end of 2007 you didn’t hear much about AMD
Here’s what’s happened in the last three months:
Tom Says: “Intel was peddling technology that it knew to be somewhere between four and eight years behind AMD's” (In 2007)
http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/05/ahead_of_the_cu_4.html?source=rss
World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell and Opteron processors
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
HP ProLiant DL785 G5 takes #1- 8-processor Windows result with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors]
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/dl785g5_2tsapsd_may08.pdf
HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes #1 4P worldwide price/performance record on TPC-C benchmark
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/DL585G5_top4Ppriceperf_TPCC_033108.pdf
AMD Puma mobile HD 1080p IGP. Supports DirectX10 graphics, delivers 3x the performance of laptops with Intel GMA X3100 graphics.
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1337/hp-laptops-on-puma-080612/
http://apcmag.com/amd_puma_pads_softly_into_100_notebooks.htm
http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=178
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMs5DXBja-A
AMD's mainstream chip can do more FLOPS than NVIDIA enthusiast chips, and AMD's coming high-end chips will pack twice the FLOPS...
AMD\ATI RV770 series 4850 video card hits at 1Tera Flop using 800 Shader Processors. ($89-$300 retail)
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7841.html
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14261
Watch a HD 1080p movie while decoding another one in the background on AMD $650.00 PC (Retail)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V741rSx3-5U
Legal news:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jryvQhSOy7hMlusIf02BtkYCSi1gD9155BJ80
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL2735466620080527
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gi5wPztqMeuGmq7xPaI67oS6w-KwD914CLBO0
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080516-amd-forces-intel-to-turn-over-more-documents.html
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Intel-paid-vendors-not-to-use-AMD--/110664
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/EU-Commission-raids-Intel-s-German-offices--/110116
http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Fined+25M+in+South+Korean+Antitrust+Case/article11997.htm
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