AMD announces Z-series APU for Windows 8 Tablet- with Gaming Prowless

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The AMD Z-60 is AMD’s lowest power APU, delivering unprecedented performance and AMD AllDayTM power for tablet form factors as thin as 10mm. A compelling combination of features, stunning graphics, support for the latest Microsoft Windows® 8 applications and user interfaces, as well as compatibility with Windows 7 and the full-suite of legacy Windows applications, [...]

AMD Announces the Trinity 2nd gen APU for Ultra-thin Laptop: Competition for Intels Ultrabooks

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AMD has just announced the Trinity APU line which is 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing UnitsWU (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks, All-in-One and traditional desktops, home theater PCs and embedded designs. The 2nd-Generation A-Series APU, codenamed “Trinity”, is a grounds-up improved design over the previous generation, enabling a best-in-class PC mobility, entertainment, and gaming [...]

AMD A8 3870K APU- CPU + GPU Combo

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An AMD APU is a chip that combines the best of both worlds from AMD, with a multi-core processor and a Radeon HD graphics card.  What we have here is the AMD A8 3870K APU which houses a quad-core processor and a Radeon HD 6000 series graphics chip. Talk about convenience: the updated AMD A-Series [...]

Intel announces its 3rd gen Ivy-Bridge Processors- starting with desktops @ $179

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Today Intel announced its long-awaited Ivy-Bridge processor, though it only announced the desktop line of the processor. We can expect to see the mobile line soon. The Ivy-Bridge chipset are the world’s first 22nm processors.  Intel’s own boasts of having invented a new 3-D transistor. Intel announced its first fifteen chips: six quad-core mobile powerhouses, [...]