AMD Breaks Up

According to a post on Gizmodo, it looks as if AMD will break its company into 2 parts: One for chip production and one for chip design.

According to the article, "The new firm, known as the Foundry Company for now, will makes chips for other companies as well as AMD, who will continue to own 44 percent of it."

It sounds like a sound move if your chip production is a large drain on resources and cash flow. How this will affect the chip makers chips and profits will, hopefully, be beneficial to us all.

AMD + DirectX 11

According to Gizmodo, it seems that AMD is expecting DirectX compatible GPU's to be available in 2009.

If your in to obvious stuff, it also looks like they're expecting Windows 7 in 2009 too...[PIC]

AMD Jumps Into Ultraportables With Low-Cost and High Performance Models

According to Gizmodo's site, AMD will be jumping into the low cost UMPC market with a model of their own.

The specs are as stated on the Giz site "These versions include a white 8.9-inch version with an AMD CPU, ATI's RS690 chipset, 1GB RAM and the Linux operating system along with a 7-inch black XP version featuring a 1280 x 600 display (possibly touchscreen) a 60GB or 80GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM. Details are still sketchy at the moment, but more should be revealed in the next few days." [Gizmodo]

This market is getting pretty exciting pretty fast. I expect Intel to make a new formal announcement in the near future. Can't be outdone by AMD now can we!

AMD GAME!

I am not sure how this simplifies anything as complex as gaming graphics, but Gizmodo's article on the new AMD GAME! Badge tries it's best!

Gizmodo link here.

Gizmodo Reviews the AMD Triple Core

Gizmodo has written a review, done by Maxim, of the AMD Triple Core processor and posted it on their website.

While they seem to punish it for being closely priced, and of less quality and performance than the superior X4 Phenom Quad core processor, they state it performs as expected.

Not a dual core, not a quad core...lost in it's on little limbo world of the "niche" technologies.

Gizmodo link.

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

This is good news for all the AMD peoples out there. The new "Shanghai" processor by AMD is a 45nm chip and will prospectively have up to 12 cores.

Now what can you do with those cores? Well, 3X more stuff than the Quad core Phenom and 4X more stuff than the triple core Phenom!

AMD Triple Core Processors Reach Desktop Market

I was reading the Fryes add in the paper today and noticed the AMD Phenom Triple Core is now showing up in desktops. The Phenom Triple core processor is a Phenom Quad core with one core inactive or non-functional.

This seems to be a good idea, one can get a good, multi-core processor for less. They are cheaper than the quad cores, but lack the same power and abilities as well.

Here is the link to the Fryes website to see some PC stats with the Phenom Triple Core Processor.

AMD Triple Core comparisons link.