It’s been a long time since I’ve done an in-depth chip analysis. I like them because processor technology is an area of computer science I enjoy the most, and it gives me a great opportunity to demystify these wonderfully complex and vital pieces of silicon. On today’s docket is a discussion about the “Bulldozer” core, …
Tag Archive: AMD
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Feb 24
Apple Crosses the Sandy Bridge to New Macbooks
Last year, Intel unveiled the Intel 2010 Mobile processors in January, yet it took Apple 4 months to adopt the new chips in their mobile front. Not only that, but their lower end notebooks remained stuck in the geriatric world of the Core 2 Duo. It was a frustrating thing to watch as Apple’s counterparts …
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Jan 20
Fusion: AMD and ATI’s First Child
You know, I’ve talked often about Intel on this site, but almost never about the other x86 chip maker: AMD. This is because really, there hasn’t been a lot to talk about. Since 2007, AMD has been in a rut. The company released the K-10 based Phenom processors against Intel’s Core 2 line. While Phenom …
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Feb 28
Upheaval in the GPU Wars Part 1: ATI
This is a two-part series on the post-DirectX 10 history of ATI and Nvidia, the two largest commercial GPU vendors in the world. A word of caution: though I have tried to make this accessible to as many people as possible, I must still give detail and be informative. As such, you may find this …
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