AMD Admits it Overpaid for ATI

Guess we can file this one in the “Well Duh!” pile.
AMD has officially admitted that it overpaid for it’s purchase of ATI. Though the 3.2 Billion dollar allocation for “goodwill” (e.g. the value of the ATI brand - almost three times the value of ATI’s product technology) paid as part of the purchase was questioned [...]

AMD Phenom is BROKEN - Costs a 14% performance hit to fix

We recently published our AMD vs. Intel Dual Core comparison, which led some to wonder why we didn’t compare their quad-core chips instead. As I stated in the review, one reason was that we simply wanted to write a CPU review discussing products that more people can afford; even the high-end dual-core processors we [...]

AMD vs. Intel in a DUAL CORE WAR~!

This is our first full-blown CPU review in - quite some time. I decided to pit AMD vs. Intel in a dual core battle, comparing their fastest sub $200 processors against each other. For kicks, I also threw in a Core 2 Quad Q6600, just to see if Dual Core is dead yet.
The bottom line? [...]

Quad-core CPU’s too much for you? AMD will have the solution

Triple core CPU’s.
Yup, not four cores, not two cores - three cores. AMD has announced that they’ll be adding triple-core processors to their Phenom processor for Q1 next year.
AMD’s reasoning for this is that quad-core processors only make up about 2% of the desktop market this year. I guess they assume that people who didn’t [...]

AMD Barcelona benchmarks; somewhat disappointing

Barcelona is here, and Tech Report have the first official benchmarks. The results? Not too great, if you were looking forward to seeing AMD take the overall performance lead with Barcelona.
In server and workstation applications, Barcelona exceled because of its native quad-core architecture. However in floating-point-intensive apps, there is not a huge gain. Overall, [...]

AMD’s New Barcelona Architecture is Coming

DailyTech has a good summary of it. The most interesting things to me are the fact that it’s designed from the ground up to be quad-core, unlike Intel’s offering, which takes two dual cores and slaps them together (to explain it crudely). It’s thus easier for each core to act independently as the [...]

Intel Penryn coming November 11th; Full lineup prices

Here’s some nice juicy leaked information this evening from Intel; a list of their entire launch lineup of the 45nm Penryn chipset (details here; benchmarks here) that will occur on November 11th. Be sure to come back on that day for a full review! (if the rumored date is true; we cannot confirm that here).
X5460 [...]