When Kaveri debuted 15 months ago, it offered a number of i mpressive under-the-hood improvements for heterogeneous compute workloads, a refreshed CPU core, and the best integrated graphics performance available on any platform. AMD has already announced that its Carrizo and Carrizo-L APUs will ship in volume beginning this quarter, but those are mobile-only parts. Today, the company ...
Now that AMD’s first analyst day in three years has wrapped and we’ve covered the major highlights, it’s time to turn to the elephant in the room: Can AMD break into new markets and compete more effectively in established ones, given that it’s often at a severe financial and technological disadvantage compared with its rivals? AMD claims that it can, but some of the evidence it offered yesterday was ...
One of the key components of AMD’s Analyst Day has been a comprehensive set of updates for its various product roadmaps. We’ve rounded up that information and rolled it into a single post. We’ve already covered AMD’s Zen, K12, and cancellation of Project Skybridge, so we won’t be discussing those projects directly. AMD’s desktop and mobile roadmaps Under ...
Huzzah, old chap! A report has surfaced showing that Sony has sold over two million PS4s in the UK. Moving that many units in less than 18 months in a nation of 64 million people is impressive. And considering that the UK was one of the few European bastions for the Xbox 360 last generation, this is a non-trivial indicator of which way the wind is blowing. In an interview with ...
After several years of speculation — really since the thing first hit Kickstarter in 2012 — Oculus VR has finally announced a consumer version of its Oculus Rift PC-based virtual reality headset. The first units will begin shipping to buyers in the first quarter of 2016, with preorders starting “later this year.” By that point, the Rift will hopefully fulfill the promise ...
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