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Back when former Lenovo exec Rory Read took over the president and CEO position at AMD last August, industry watchers were wondering what his first moves would be to shore up the company's finances and head towards profitability. Now Read is making his first move, announcing the company plans to cut 1,400 jobs as part of a cost-cutting restructuring. The positions represent about 12 percent of AMD's total workforce.… Read More

Advanced Micro Devices, better known by most as AMD, acquired graphics processor manufacturer ATI in 2006. The company was known best before the acquisition as the creator of the Rage and Radeon lines of computer graphics cards, and its tech provides the graphics processing power for the current-gen Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles. Under the new ownership, ATI has continued to deliver high-quality GPUs as one of the top competitors on… Read More

Earlier this month, AMD launched its latest high-performance video assault on serious PC gamers in the form of its new AMD Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970 video cards. One of the features of those cards is dual-BIOS support, meaning that ambitious users can load the cards with experiment BIOS's in an effort to eake more performance from the systems while being able to toggle back to factory installed BIOS with the flip of a toggle switch. And… Read More

Chipmaker AMD has decided to retire the ATI brand name for its graphics products, effectively ending the separate identity AMD has maintained for its graphics operations since acquiring ATI way back in 2006. Although AMD has no made any official announcements, the company plans to make the transition official when it launches its “Fusion” platform later this year, which will mark the first products since AMD's acquisition to… Read More

It's true that gamers love their high-end graphics hardware…but it's also true that many of the really high-end toys target graphics professionals in the broadcast, CAD, digital modeling, and medical imaging fields. With those folks in mind, AMD has just released its ATI FirePro V8800 graphics card, a high-performance card based on the ATi Radeon HD 5000 series that brings 1,600 stream processors, 2 GB of GDDR5 video memory,… Read More

AMD's ATI graphics division has been on a roll lately, introducing top-performing Radeon HD cards aimed at gaming and high-definition entertainment fans that have been well-received by consumers and bank accounts alike. However, ATI seems to think there's space for another product at the high end of its mid-range line, and that that end it has just announced the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, offering DirectX 11 capability and… Read More

AMD has been making some major strides in the desktop graphics arena lately, and looks to continue its success with the new ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics card, which offers support for Microsoft's DirectX 11 as well as ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology…at a suggested price of just $99. “AMD has already enabled DirectX 11 support for the majority of the PC market and today's introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics… Read More

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard—who, let's not forget, has unseated Dell as the top PC manufacturer on the planet—has taken the wraps of several new computers for the important end-of-year buying season, including new thing-and-light notebook computers, a stylish new netbook, and a new all-in-one PC designed for general-purpose computing in the home. And—as one might expect for a bunch of PCs due to launch in late October—the bulk will be… Read More

Quote from the article: “Looking at the $399 price-point, we see that there is considerable potential for overclocking the GeForce 6800 GT. This board offered faster performance and equivalent image quality to the Radeon X800 pro. Equipped with the same 16 pipelines seen on the flagship GeForce 6800 Ultra, there will be many who try and coax the additional 50MHz from the core and save themselves $100.” Read the full story here

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today introduced XILLEON 210VC, the world's first digital terrestrial and Cable Plug-and-Play Television-on-Chipâ„¢. All the essential technology that goes into making a North American or Korean digital TV – the reception front-end and the video decode and display back-end – are available from ATI in the industry's first one-chip solution. XILLEON 210VC supports the terrestrial… Read More

In today's world it seems as though faster is commonly touted as better for most things and the video card market is no stranger to this. For some people faster is better and higher quality is best; more money however is not. So where do you find the balance in a world that seems to offer bigger and better cards and mega performance with a matching price tag? We here at Digital Trends have come up with a partial solution to the dilemma of… Read More