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System builders will have yet another choice of form factor for their PCs after AMD announced on Tuesday that they have finalized a new open standard, dubbed DTX, with a focus on energy efficiency. The new specification was announced at the opening of the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, just six months after AMD introduced the draft for it. The company credited support from many hardware vendors for the quick leap from… Read More

Chipmaker AMD is doing its best to take some air of Intel's sails by announcing the immediate availability o Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors built using a 65nm process. the new processors are essentially AMD's existing Athlon 64 line scaled down from their original 90nm scale: the smaller size means AMD can manufacture more chips per wafer, and each chip offers better performance per watt of power. "With AMD's… Read More

AMD has officially launched its Quad FX platform, targeting “megatasking” users and computing enthusiasts with pairs of the company's Athlon 64 FX-70 series of dual core processors and chipsets from Nvidia, rather than AMD's recently acquired graphics chipmaker ATI. The idea is to create a powerhouse offering designed to appeal to folks who need to run multiple demanding, multitheaded applications—think video… Read More

Microprocessor company AMD late yesterday announced a new dual core processor built upon their AMD64 platform. Targeted towards PC enthusiasts, the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 is now appearing in new PCs from specialty computer manufacturers like Alienware and Velocity Micro. AMD said that the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual core processor is now the highest performance dual core processor they offer. It reportedly shows an average 34… Read More