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AMD's slice of the worldwide microprocessor pie shrunk to just 11.4% last year, and Intel gobbled up 81%, according to IHS iSuppli numbers quoted...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Talk about an unusual leak. Phoronix reports that an AMD server partner (which shall remain nameless) has submitted benchmark results for a system running...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

We'd already heard whispers about AMD's Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors starting to ship in the third week of June. Now, both Expreview and

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

There's been a rash of news in the past few months about ARM-based processors aimed either partly or directly at servers. Just this past January,...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

If you stuck by AMD's side during the great Intel onslaught of 2010, when Core i7 processors savagely beat their Phenom II rivals, you might...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards

With Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Zacate already out—not to mention Llano on the way—2011 looks set to be the year of processors with on-die...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

Details about AMD's upcoming Llano accelerated processing units are still trickling out. This time, the guys at X-bit labs have gotten hold of a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

An increasing number of chip makers and system builders are bringing small processors into the server market. Already, SeaMicro has shoehorned 256 Atom CPUs...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

Sandy Bridge processor pricing starts at $119.99 for the Core i3-2100, which is pretty darn affordable. It looks like we might see some cheaper...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Based on the latest whispers from the rumor mill, AMD's 32-nm Llano and Zambezi processors aren't due until the early summer. That hasn't stopped...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Intel's Sandy Bridge processors were great deals when they came out in January, and they're still great deals today—it's just that accompanying motherboards have been...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards

AMD's two-pronged attack on Sandy Bridge may come as a single onslaught. According to an X-bit labs story that cites anonymous "industrial sources," AMD

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Many have donned tinfoil hats over the inclusion of hardware security features in Intel's latest processors. Could such features prove to be a blessing more...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Gaming

An interesting video has appeared in AMD's YouTube account. The three-minute clip shows the screens of two laptops as they run a graphics-heavy benchmark. One...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

With barebones nettops systems built around Ion and CULV underpinnings, it was only a matter of time before Zotac put Brazos inside a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems

Much ink has been spilled about those Intel Thunderbolt ports on Apple's new MacBook Pros, but according to a story by X-bit labs, AMD

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Input devices

Ars Technica's Jon Stokes has penned a thought-provoking piece that looks at Nvidia's Project Denver and what it means for ARM, Intel, and the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech

You may recall that the folks at Lucid have been cooking up a GPU virtualization program called Virtu for Sandy Bridge motherboards. Virtu has a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards