According to the Chiphell forum, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) has previously shipped the initial ‘Engineering Samples’ of its prospect Radeon HD 9970 graphics cards to its partners. These ES samples permit AMD’s partners to build their own production models, in addition to thoroughly test for some incompatibility issues. The rumors as well appear to confirm that AMD will bounce the Radeon HD 8000 series for consumer models, wholly reserving the numbers for OEM manufacturers. The HD 9000 series might create its debut as soon as October.
The Radeon HD 9970 is asserted to feature a ‘Hawai XT’ chip, which is fraction of the new ‘Volcanic Islands’ architecture. Further details are not available yet, other than the new card is to compete with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s GTX 780.
Advanced Micro Devices is in the progression of a turnaround. Management is cutting the operating expenses and humanizing efficiency whereas executing the product roadmap and endeavoring to return to profitability. The team organization AMD has positively been effective in announcing new products and winning designs, like the PS 4’s semi-custom AMD processor.
AMD released its 2014 sever strategy as well as roadmap, which comprises three key products. Seattle will be the industry’s merely 64-bit ARM-based server SoC. An x86-based processor, ‘Berlin’ will available both as a CPU and APU.
AMD released the world’s first commercially available the AMD FX-9590, 5 GHz CPU processor. The 8-core CPUs bring new levels of gaming as well as multimedia performance for desktop enthusiasts. The question stays, how much PCs with this processor will be sold?
AMD released that the Gene Center of the University of Munich has surged its research capabilities using AMD’s SeaMicro servers. The SeaMicro servers are similar to a mini-supercomputer in a box.
In addition, AMD released a new family of low power server processors. The AMD Opteron X-Series is optimized for scale-out server architectures. The new X1150 as well as X2150 processors top the top performing Intel Atom processor on means performance benchmarks.
AMD released three new additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-Series Mobile APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) lineup.