New 45nm AMD Athlon IIs listed

45W quads and tri-cores, 3GHz duals

Several 45nm Athlons have popped up on price search engines. Although we already talked about most of them, we've got a few more specs this time around, although we still don't have any prices.

Let's start off with the new flagship quad-core Athlons, based on the Propus core with no L3 cache. Two models have popped up, the Athlon II X4 605e and 600e. Both feature 4x512kb of L2 cache, HT up to 4.0GB/s, and dual-channel DDR3 1333 memory support. The 605e runs at 2.3GHz, while the 600e is clocked at 2.2GHz. Bear in mind that these are "e" series power efficient parts, and the TDP is an impressive 45W, a first for desktop quad-cores.

Moving on to tri-core, Rana-based CPUs, we can see two models, the 400e and 405e. They are clocked at 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz respectively. The rest of the spec is similar to that of the 6xxe series, minus one core.

And for the first time AMD has gone 45nm with its dual cores. The Athlon II X2 250 and 245 are Regor-based. They are clocked at 3.0GHz and 2.9GHz respectively. Unlike the new quad and tri-core parts, these are not power efficient models, and the TDP is rated at 65W, which is still adequate.

thanks : fudzilla.com

XFX HD 4890 Black Edition 1GHz available

At first for registered Black Edition fans

It looks like XFX managed to get ahead in the Radeon HD 4890 at 1GHz race, as we’ve learned that these cards have entered the mass production.

The first quantity of just fewer than 100 cards was produced last week, and it should be available shortly in the Euro region at €259. The price will depend on the exchange rate and the country. The first batch will be limited to Black Edition-registered users only and after the second batch arrives, it will be available for the global market.

The second batch of more cards is expected in the next two weeks and the card will launch covered with Black edition brand.

Our sources also imply that the Black edition HD 4890 at 1GHz will also feature HAWX DirectX 10.1 game in the box as well as local priority Black Edition support. This might be first 1GHz card available.

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AMD had 19.8% of EMEA desktop share in Q1

According to the fresh information from IDC, in the EMEA market AMD scored 19.8 percent of total desktop market in Q1 2009. Intel grew its market share to 80.2 percent.

A year before in Q1 2008 AMD had 23.7 percent, while Intel had 76.2 percent of the desktop market share, and others had 0.2 percent of market share and AMD managed to drop down to 20.7 percent in Q4 2008 while Intel grew to 79.3 percent.

The picture is still quite pretty when it comes to desktop CPUs and in mobile CPUs Intel has more than 90 percent of the market. At least in EMEA AMD didn’t do that well and it didn’t managed to grow the market in Europe but it didn’t lose the market share drastically, just 0.9 percent from Q4 2008, while Intel gained just as much.

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The Core 2 Quad Q8400 VS Phenom II 940

Q8400 quad-core chip running at 2.66GHz with a 2MB L2 per pair of cores (4MB total). It’s like two Pentium Dual Core processors on a single package.

These chips actually have a 6MB L2 but with 2MB disabled either because they have irrecoverable defects in the cache or simply to hit the right price point. In other words, the Q8400 is literally a Q9400 but with 2MB of its L2 disabled.







Source : Anandtech.com

AMD Phenom II -Record Overclock by Air, Dry Ice, LN2

Overclocker Chew* relentlessly overclocks "Dragon Technology" with stock AMD Phenom II X4 955 on air, phase, dry ice, and liquid nitrogen. See record 3DMark06 performance for dual ATI Crossfire with ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4890 GPU, Gigabyte motherboards and OCZ memory. Proving Grounds.

PC processors poised for growth

PC processor makers have sold off "most of not all" their excess inventory that piled up due to the recession creating "the potential for positive growth" in the next three to six months, according to an upcoming report from Mercury Research (Cave Creek, Az.).

PC processor sales declined 8.3 percent in the first three months of the year compared to the last quarter of 2008, said Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury. "The quarter-on-quarter decline is only slightly worse than the average seasonal drop of 7.4 percent," McCarron said.

Notebook processors declined "far more" than desktop or server chips in the period. "Without the mobile downturn, the first quarter would have been much stronger than seasonal," he said.

AMD gained nearly four percentage points of market share over archrival Intel Corp. in the quarter. However, "the quarter was defined by inventory adjustments, so the statistics do not necessarily reflect the actual state of the market or market share," he added.

AMD had 20.9 percent of PC processor sales in the quarter, up from 17 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Mercury. Intel's share declined from 82.1 percent in the fourth quarter to 78.2 percent in the first three months of 2009.

thanks EEtimes for the news

Apple is making a console

Never ceases to amaze me how journalists can be dense. Apple hires the technical brain trust behind the XBox 360 and the conclusion is the company is doing an iphone?

Come back. Apple grabbed Bob Drebin, Raja Koduri, PA Semi, Mark Papermaster, some games you guys, and no doubt many others we have not heard. Which gives the ex-CTO of ATI, also ex-ArtX, GPU manufacturers Nintendo forever, and ATI "big thinker". Lets say that the GPU down there.

PA Semi has several low-power, high performance, modular PowerPC chips on the market now. Are basically SOC only a slap in the GPU (see last paragraph) and that has - wait for it - a console.

To have a successful console, you need software people. If you're going to do in a healthy manner, you may want a robust digital distribution and payment system. Something that looks a lot like iTunes. Could be built, but already the same. See a product from entry into focus yet?

Taking into account the time needed to make a console, especially considering that the hard parts are already done, could be less than year. Rate each of the greats of the next generation. As Nintendo has shown, there is no need to make a murderer specifications fun and generation of the main console.

The fanbois will work themselves into a froth over this, a game console pedestrians Messiah? Will it remain white and reassuringly expensive? They naturally do not believe that until the Dear Leader also behind hormone surgery, one on the waves on the stage - Atilla, who cares about them?

Analysts cry of "telephone," but none of these new hires have phone experience - and Apple has not been more vigorously recruiting phone / RF popular. It makes no sense for them to jump into the waters of phone chips, from the multitude of frequencies, the minefields of patents, obtuse and regulations around the world, is not worth it. You can buy the parts in the commodity market, so why make them? Apple also hired PPC people, not ARM, which itself should be revealing.

In the end, the course is clear. There was a lot of rumors circulating regarding the Apple Valley and consoles. Take a vastly underestimated the Mac Mini or Apple TV, in a draft PPC SoC low power with a strong GPU, the fire of itunes, and a console. Not only that, but snakes in the room below the MS. If you remember, which is why we developed the 360, to prevent the property from Sony link.

If you can not put the points together in this one, you really need to have their license revoked Internet, you are too blind to navigate. It is not a question of if, but when at the moment

ATI Radeon HD4770 price drops to $89.99

Several weeks ago, ATi has decided to give up the prices and put greater pressure to Nvidia with Radeon HD 4770. The first time the price of the new 40nm chips now support the GDDR5 89.99 U.S. dollars

Sapphire, PowerColor, he and three cards, offers a huge price, we are confident that the impact of the price in Europe should be a fairly rapid pace.

Beat the main competitor is the Geforce 9800GT, but now there is a greater distance between the GTS 250 and 4770 sales could be lower 104.99 U.S. dollars, this is for you, the MSI $ 30 mail - in rebate return, while other sales average 119.99 U.S. dollars or more.

Strange ATI still have enough stock HD 4770, nVIDIA and even predicted a very poor yield and poor

AMD Athlon 7850 review

AMD released their Kuma core, basically a dual core Phenom, back in December which performed much better than most expected, competitive with Intel's dual cores for the price. Since then, AMD has been busy with Phenom II launches but in time for AMD's 40th anniversary they've updated the Athlon 7750 Kuma core with the Athlon 7850 Black Edition.

There's not a lot more to say about the 7850 than we did in our 7750 review. As mentioned it is basically a dual core Phenom and in this case featuring an unlocked multiplier. Here's the official technical specs from AMD.



AMD Athlon™ X2 7850 Processor Specifications:

Processor Core Frequency: 2.8GHz

X2 7850 Black Edition Tray OPN: OPN# AD785ZWCJ2BGH

X2 7850 Black Edition PIB OPN: OPN# AD785ZWCGHBOX

L1 Cache Sizes: 64K of L1 instruction and 64K of L1 data cache per core (256KB total L1 per processor)

L2 Cache Sizes: 512KB of L2 data cache per core (1MB total L2 per processor)

L3 Cache Size: 2MB (shared)

Total Cache (L2+L3): 3MB

Memory Controller Type: Integrated 128-bit wide memory controller *

Memory Controller Speed: Up to 1.8GHz with Dual Dynamic Power Management

Types of Memory Supported: Support for unregistered DIMMs up to PC2 8500 (DDR2-1066MHz)

HyperTransport 3.0: One 16-bit/16-bit link @ up to 3.6GHz full duplex (1.8GHz x2)

Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth: Up to 28.5 GB/s bandwidth [Up to 17.1GB/s memory bandwidth (DDR2-1066) + 14.4GB/s (HT3)]

Packaging: Socket AM2+ 940-pin organic micro pin grid array (micro-PGA)

Fab location: GLOBALFOUNDARIES Fab 1 module 1 in Dresden, Germany (formerly AMD Fab 36)

Process Technology: 65-nanometer DSL SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology

Approximate Transistor count: ~ 450 million (65nm)

Approximate Die Size: 285 mm2 (65nm)

Max Ambient Case Temp: 73o Celsius

Nominal Voltage: 1.2-1.25 Volts

Max TDP: 95 Watts

here is some pictures from amdzone

AMD Athlon II X3 405e sighted

I've read the news from hardware info. They was talking about new Athlon II X3 405e.
From the picture it's like the Phenom II family it can be unlocked the fourth core.