AMD releases Athlon X2 7000 Series processor (Dual-core Phenom) - The Kuma has arrived. Over the past year or two the buzz-word has been quad-core processors. The one thing though that we keep ...
About a month after Intel officially unveiled their flagship Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, the crown jewel of their initial dual-core Pentium D processor line-up, AMD revealed their inaugural ...
The benefit of having the same 2MB L3 cache assigned to fewer cores (than the K10 triple and quad cores) means that there's respectively more space for each to use (since the L1 and L2 caches are ...
Now here's a hint for a contest we are running ;) When AMD launched the initial Phenom processors, they did so under the codename 'Spider'. Spider entailed the AMD 780 chipset, Radeon series 3000/4000 ...
Intel's current dual-core processors, and their next-gen 65nm dual-Presler core processors, require a traditional Northbridge with an integrated memory controller. This means that any core-to-core ...
After long denying any Phenom-based Athlons, then releasing the 6500 silently, now AMD introduces new models of the 7000 series. The naming is adding to some confusion for the customers, because there ...
HEXUS took an in-depth look at the AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition chip back in December of last year. Up until today the 2.7GHz-clocked chip was the fastest of a family of 'Kuma' processors - ...
Intel's recent press launch of a dual-core consumer x86 processor has polarised minds, press time and thinking from technologists, as everyone beings to come to terms with the way processor ...
To continue the tradition of offering an incredibly wide selection of value-driven parts, AMD last month added five new models to its line-up, consisting of three Athlon II’s and two Phenom II’s. Some ...
Whether you can live with the AMD Athlon II X250 all comes down to context. In isolation, it's a reasonable performer. With two cores humming a 3GHz tune, day-to-day duties such as document editing ...
Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new flagship processor, the Athlon 64 FX-60. At the time, we speculated it would easily become the fastest desktop CPU money could buy, and we've since ...
Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title goes ...