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• An AMD Update: Fab 36 Begins Shipments, Planning for 65nm and AM2 Performance   [Article, AnandTech]  
  A little under 6 months ago AMD introduced their first 300mm 90nm manufacturing facility, called Fab 36. The name of course comes from its existence 36 years after the founding of AMD, with the plant itself being located next to Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. The grand opening of Fab 36 was mostly for media attention as the plant would not begin shipping revenue parts until Q1 of 2006. That sometime is today as AMD has just announced that Fab 36 is finally shipping revenue parts. The parts that it is shipping are 90nm Athlon 64 and Sempron CPUs, so Opterons and Athlon 64 X2s will still come out of Fab 30 next door. AMD cites customer demand as the reason that Athlon 64 and Sempron are first out of the new fab, which honestly makes sense; there's always need for more capacity at the lower end.
   Wed, 05 Apr, 2006 | 0 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Intel Pentium D 920 Presler Dual Core Processor Review   [Review, hardwarelogic]  
  It seems kind of strange to sit here and spend an entire evening testing and writing about a processor that we all know is being phased out....but here I am, sharing my thoughts about INTEL's Pentium D 920 processor. The Pentium D 920 was to replace the Pentium D 820 as INTEL's entry level, or budget, processor. However the Pentium D 920 became caught between a figurative rock and a hard place. First, the 920 was replaced as the entry level chip by the Pentium D 805 (which we'll cover in a future article). Second, featuring great overclocking potential and improved thermal properties over its predecessor the Pentium D 820, the 920 was cutting into sales of its bigger, and more expensive siblings the Pentium D 930 and 940 processors.
   Wed, 05 Apr, 2006 | 0 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Intel's Conroe, it's good, but don't hold your breath?   [Article, hardwareanalysis]
  Intel released preliminary performance results for their new Conroe processor last week, we take a few steps back and look at the bigger picture, including AMD's position.
   Sun, 19 Mar, 2006 | 48 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMDs M2 socket, lowering performance?   [Article, hardwareanalysis]
  If all goes well AMD will move to a new socket and support DDR2 in 2006, but will this further up performance? Or will we be faced with a Prescott debacle once again?
   Tue, 14 Mar, 2006 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Sneak Peak – Conroe Puts the Fear into Athlon 64 FX-60   [Article, hardwarezone]
  You've been hearing about Intel's Core microarchitecture and their next generation CPUs: Merom for mobile, Conroe for desktop and Woodcrest for server. What you haven't seen are live benchmark numbers that blow away an overclocked Athlon FX-60, the best AMD offering today!
   Tue, 14 Mar, 2006 | 24 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown   [Preview, AnandTech]
  Intel is very excited about its new Core architecture, especially with Conroe on the desktop. It's not really news to anyone that Intel hasn't had the desktop performance crown for years now; its Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors run hotter and offer competitive or lower performance than their AMD competitors. With Conroe, Intel hopes to change all of that.
   Tue, 14 Mar, 2006 | 22 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• A Beginning And An End : AMD’s Athlon64 FX-60 Processor   [Review, GamePC]
  The Athlon64 FX-60, the latest member of the FX family which we're looking at today, further solidifies AMD's stance that single-core processors are on their way out. AMD is folding the Athlon64 FX and X2 lines together for the most part, as the FX-60 is the first FX model to be based on AMD's dual-core "Toledo" architecture. However, in the move from a single-core to a dual-core architecture, AMD has not sacrificed much in terms of clock speed. The previous generation FX-57 processor ran at a clock speed of 2.8 GHz with 1 MB of cache, whereas this new FX-60 dual-core processor has two cores running at 2.6 GHz, each with their own 1 MB of cache to utilize (2 MB total). With each core running at a brisk 2.6 GHz, the FX-60 should be able to maintain excellent single-threaded application performance while also providing the smoothness of SMP. Let's see if they are successful.
   Thu, 02 Mar, 2006 | 23 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD's Opteron 165 and 180 processors   [Review, techreport]
  AMD'S OPTERON 100 SERIES processors have led a difficult existence. For most of their run, they've been sojourning in the wilderness of single-plug Socket 940 motherboards—a lonely and desolate place, to be sure. They've had to suffer in relative obscurity as their siblings and cousins, the Opteron 200 series and the Athlon 64, have gone on to resounding success. That's gotta damage a chip's psychological makeup. With the move to dual-core CPUs, though, the Opteron 100 series looks poised for success. After all, if you can get essentially two Opteron processors into a single-socket motherboard, you've got low-end server and workstation nirvana. To facilitate such things, AMD has sought to free the Opteron 100 series from prior constraints by moving some pins around on the underside of the chips. As a result, the new dual-core Opteron 100 processors will drop into a plain ol' Socket 939 motherboard and communicate happily with a pack of unbuffered DIMMs, just like an Athlon 64.
   Thu, 23 Feb, 2006 | 24 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• A Look At AMD's Socket AM2 Platform - Athlon 64 X2 4800+ AM2   [Review, tomshardware]
  It is equally amazing to see everybody anticipating the change in generation, although the switch to DDR2 is not expected to make a great difference in performance by itself. As our benchmarks show, going from DDR400 to DDR2667 with current silicon would not make a noticeable difference at all, because the integrated memory controller suffers more from relaxed memory timings than it can gain from speeding up clock speed via DDR2. Whether the current engineering sample processors actually suffer from a memory controller bug is hard to say. This could also be due to information that was released intentionally to prevent people from doing early benchmarking.
   Tue, 21 Feb, 2006 | 33 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD's Turion 64 on the Desktop   [Article, silentpcreview]
  Not many people realize that the Turion 64 can also be used in this way. In fact, it doesn't even require a special motherboard — many Socket 754 boards that support desktop processors can also run Turions. Ironically, this compatibility is one of the reasons that Turion 64 for the desktop has not been as popular a concept: There are no special products for this application, and no special marketing efforts by any interested companies to promote the product as there have been for the Pentium M. Hence, there isn't much awareness about the concept of Turion 64 on the desktop.
   Tue, 21 Feb, 2006 | 21 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Processor Review   [Review, legitreviews]
  The time has finally come for AMD to bring the dual-core Athlon 64 processor to their beloved FX processor family. Can you believe that dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors have been out for more than seven months? During these seven months the King Of The Hill (KOTH) processor for AMD has always been a single core processor...
   Thu, 16 Feb, 2006 | 13 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD releases "Pacifica" virtualization spec   [News, tgdaily]
  AMD today announced that it has released its I/O virtualizations specification, formerly code-named "Pacifica," through royalty-free licenses to hardware and software developers. The company said that virtualization will be supported in all of its processors in the first half of this year. Following Intel's virtualization technology (VT), AMD today said that it has made available a specification that allows computers to take advantage of several "virtual" entities within system and, for example, run multiple operating systems side to side.
   Tue, 07 Feb, 2006 | 14 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD AM2: More than just a Memory Change   [Article, AnandTech]
  The new AMD technology refresh, now called AM2, will bring DDR2 memory to the Athlon64 on-processor memory controller. Many in the industry have speculated about the impact of this low latency memory controller on DDR2 performance, which to this point has suffered under the impact of the higher latency Intel Netburst architecture. We are looking forward to the opportunity to take a closer look at DDR2 performance on AM2 - which is everyone's big question. There will be more than just new memory with AM2, however. We now have details on the new Socket 940 for AM2. It has been widely reported that the new Socket 940 will not be compatible with the existing Socket 940 used for Opteron and early Athlon 64.
   Mon, 06 Feb, 2006 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Intel Pentium 955 EE   [Review, tbreak]
  With us today, we have the their highest end CPU- the 1066MHZ FSB based Intel Pentium 955 Extreme Edition clocked at 3.46GHz and featuring two cores with 2MB L2 cache for each core- specs that are certainly worthy of the Extreme Edition line-up. Frankly speaking, we were a bit disappointed with Intel’s previous EE CPU- the 840EE that was clocked at 3.2GHz but only features 1MB L2 cache per core and ran at 800MHz FSB.
   Mon, 06 Feb, 2006 | 20 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX 60 (Dual Core)   [Review, Hexus]
  There's not much suspense to hold with this new CPU. The mystique of whether or not the next Athlon 64 FX would be single or dual core was dashed a while ago, and really it was obvious if you think about it. Once you understood that it was dual-core, then going on to figure out the target clock frequency was a piece of cake, given Athlon 64 X2 4800+.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 11 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX 60 Microprocessor   [Review, Hexus]
  AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 is the best consumer processor AMD have ever produced. With effectively a pair of FX-55s sat in the same socket, sharing an efficient memory controller, it's close enough to FX-57 in single-threaded apps that the multi-threaded advantage makes that slender gap moot. Targetted at the well-heeled enthusiast, the new dual-core processor should be a shoo-in for those with FX-57s already, and those with the required readies to drop on the latest and greatest.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 1 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: Dual-Core FX Has Arrived   [Review, Bjorn3D]
  Today, AMD is releasing its latest FX based CPU, the FX-60. First off, you may say, 'What happened to the odd number scheme FX-51, FX-53, FX-55 and FX-57?' Well, this new CPU starts off 2006 in the AMD world of Dual-Core Performance CPU. At this time, we see that these dual-core CPUs will end with an even number scheme.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 1 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: A Dual-Core farewell to Socket-939   [Review, AnandTech]
  After today's launch of the FX-60, there will be no faster Socket-939 CPUs produced. Instead, everything else will be Socket-AM2 (the new name for Socket-M2). Next quarter, AMD will launch their Socket-AM2 platform along with AM2 versions of the Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2 and the FX-62. Given that the AM2 platform adds DDR2 support, it is entirely feasible that the Athlon 64 FX-62 won't receive a clock speed bump over the FX-60 and just use the higher bandwidth memory as justification for the higher model number.
   Fri, 27 Jan, 2006 | 0 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon 64 FX-60   [Review, hardwarezone]
  AMD welcomed the new year with a spanking new AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor. Based on the Toledo core, it's a dual-core processor clocked at 2.6GHz. Find out how much faster is the new FX-60 as compared to the FX-57 and the X2 4800+.
   Tue, 24 Jan, 2006 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AMD Athlon64 FX-60   [Review, tbreak]
  We didn’t have much luck overclocking the sample we received and the max we could get it up to was 2.8GHz. While the system reached Windows at 2.85GHz, we could not get it to complete any benchmark- even with additional voltage which sort-of gives us an indication on why AMD didn’t release this CPU at a higher speed.
   Sun, 15 Jan, 2006 | 2 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail