AMD Fusion
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 01. May, 2008 | No Comments
I’m un-aware where Fusion actually sits within the hardware community but AMD has an interesting future ahead of them. Apparently The Director of Sales and Marketing at AMD ATi stated that the next-generation architecture of their C.P.U will change dramatically.
AMD are currently behind in the Processing race with Intel. I imagine Intel is already heading [...]
AMD or Intel for Cray HPC
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 29. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Cray has decided to develop its future HPC around Intel’s silicon. This has become a problem for AMD. Cray did in fact have fabrications from AMD which included XT3, XT4 and XT5. Unfortunately for AMD the organisation was hoping that Cray would strike a 5 year deal with the company securing their current [...]
AMD ATI 4800 Series Graphics Cards
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Storage on 25. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
ATI are about to fight back with their latest editions of their graphics cards the 4800 series. The products are based on the RV770 Chip process. The 4870, 4850HD and 4850PRO all use GDDR3. The graphics cards are built on a 55nmand have 480 stream processors.
The 4870 is built with high-end GDDR5 memory [...]
