According to Digitimes, AMD has announced the launch of 40nm-based GPUs – the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830 @ CeBIT 2009. These GPUs support the latest Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, HD quality multimedia display, and energy-efficient features for long battery life.

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 supports GDDR5 memory technology with nearly twice the memory bandwidth of GDDR3. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 graphics will be featured in the forthcoming Asustek Computer’s K series notebook.

The second generation AMD Unified Video Decoder (UVD) keeps the CPU free to run social media applications or virus scan while UVD helps process intensive content such as Blu-ray movies. This helps lower power consumption and reduces the need for high fan settings, enabling a quieter and cooler notebook experience. Additional power-saving features include ATI PowerPlay, ATI PowerXpress, and ATI Switchable Graphics technologies.

Initially the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830 graphics processors are available in Asustek’s high-end notebooks, with models planned for availability beginning in the second quarter of 2009.

AMD AM3 Phenom II CPUs support DDR2 and DDR3 memory and aim to take on Intel’s Core 2 chips.

As you probably already know from the AM3 motherboards that have already been announced, AM3 is AMD’s first foray into DDR3 memory support. As Phenom CPUs have integrated memory controllers, it’s more accurate to say that it’s the new range of Phenom II CPUs (see below) that are DDR3-compatible. However, the new DDR3-compatible Phenom II range is also compatible with DDR2 memory.

As the new CPUs and the new AM3 socket are pin-compatible with the current AM2+ socket, you can put a new AM3-compatible CPU into an existing AM2+ motherboard. This means that you can upgrade your CPU now without needing to change your motherboard or buy pricey new DDR3 memory.

AMD has today announced six new 45nm Phenom II CPUs that use the AM3 socket, and they all have a quoted maximum TDP of 95W, as well as the usual 512KB of L2 cache per core. Each core also gets 64KB of L1 data cache and 64KB of L1 instruction cache, although the amount of shared Level 3 cache varies between the range, with some chips getting 4MB and others getting 6MB.

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According to The Register,

Today, x64 chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will launch its “Shanghai” quad-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations, concurrent with its annual financial analyst day meeting and ahead of schedule by AMD’s reckoning.

The new chip – which offers more computing power, less heat dissipation, and better bang for the buck than its “Barcelona” replacement – closes some of the gaps that rival Intel has opened up with its Xeon x64 chips. And it gives AMD a chance to get its business back on track and get its server partners somewhat enthusiastic about AMD after a number of them got burned by the chip maker’s delay in getting its initial quad-core chips out the door last year.

That gave Intel an opening to chew into market share gains that AMD made with single-core and dual-core Opterons since the product was launched in April 2003. And with a revamped, Core-based product line, the Xeons certainly have done that, despite some technical reasons why the Opteron design is better.

The Opterons were launched to much fanfare as the first 64-bit x86-compatible processor, and one with a funky interconnect called HyperTransport that looks an awful lot like the QuickPath Interconnect that Intel hopes to start rolling out in servers early next year and which makes its debut in the Core i7 processors any day now. While the tier one server vendors were a little cold to the Opterons at first, IBM played around a bit with one machine, and then Sun Microsystems said it would partner with AMD to create a new “Galaxy” server line, followed by Hewlett-Packard, which created Opteron variants in its ProLiant rack and BladeSystem blade server lines.

Please check The Register for more information.

These new processors are:

• 2.4-GHz Phenom X4 9750B Quad-Core
• 2.4-GHz Phenom X3 8750B Triple-Core
• 2.9-GHz Athlon X2 5600B Dual-Core
• 2.5-GHz Athlon X2 4850B Dual-Core

There was no news on price or exactly when these new chips will start tipping up in our business class PCs, but it can’t be far away.

By introduce a new processors to desktop market, AMD hope most of the customer choose AMD instead of other competitor.

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AMD AND INTEL are teaming up to backhand Nvidia in the physics arena. They are presenting a unified front to shut out NV for the first time.

If you remember, NV bought Ageia a while ago, and Intel owns Havok. Until today, this left ATI out in the cold; they could do their own and end up with a situation where each GPU has it’s own physics, or simply sit out the fray. They wisely chose to partner with Havok/Intel, and in doing so, marginalise Nvidia.

If the two sides play nice, and I have no doubt they will in the short and medium term, then that leaves the Nvidia/Ageia PhysX API as the red-headed stepchild of the industry. You have the Intel support mechanisms vs the Nvidia ones, Intel financial clout vs Nvidia. Take a guess which one will win that? Since ATI GPUs are in the two leading consoles, owning about 75+% of the installed base for which game devs target, that is a really strong incentive for developers to go Havok.

In the end, this is a political move, likely the first in a string, to cut off Nvidia’s air supply. It forces developers to take sides, Intel or Nvidia, and more importantly, console vs PC. The Intel/NV battle could go either way, likely decided by checkbooks more than anything, but the console/PC decision is done and dusted. NV loses badly here and there is nothing that they can do until the next console generation in 2011 or so.

The end result is a seemingly small announcement with huge implications. It is nothing less than a boot to the teeth for Nvidia, and no one is going to cry for them. Watch closely, this will happen again and again, and the foundation will get chipped away from NV’s support base each time.

Source: TheInquirer

Investigations in Taiwan on Friday have reportedly confirmed that AMD has begun shipping its first Radeon HD 4000-series video chipset.

The AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 is rumoured to use GDDR3 memory, while AMD has already announced that the high-end Radeon HD 4870 will utilise the all-new GDDR5 memory.

Source: Bit-Tech

Go to AMD website, download the AMD Processor Utilities and Updates.

AMD Opteron™ Cpufreq Driver for Linux 2.10.00 – Allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU frequency, voltage and power combination that match the instantaneous user performance need. Supports all AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology, AMD Opteron™ Processors, and Athlon™ 64 Processors released through 2007. Provides support for AMD PowerNow!™ technology and, where appropriate, AMD’s Cool-n-Quiet™ technology for Linux systems. Works with all kernels, version 2.6.10 or later. Requires the ondemand kernel module or the cpufreq-1.20, cpuspeed-1.20.1, or powersaved-0.8.19 or later user programs to support SMP and multi-core systems. This driver is already included in the 2.6.18 or later kernels and does not need to be downloaded again.

AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Utility – This utility checks your system’s capabilities to facilitate testing of Microsoft Hyper-V on platforms with AMD microprocessors. To use this utility: Download and unzip AMD-V_Hyper-V_Compatibility_Check_Utility.zip. Change to the directory where the files were extracted to and click on amdhyperv.exe. On Windows Vista™ or Windows Server® 2008, you need to run the application with elevated privilege, so right click the .exe and select run as administrator. Note: the .sys files must be in the same directory as the .exe file.

Machine Check Analysis Tool (MCAT) – Machine Check Analysis Tool (MCAT) is a command line utility that takes a Windows System Event Log (.evt) file as an argument and decodes the MCA Error logs into human readable format. MCAT can alternatively take as an argument the raw register hexadecimal values from an MCE Error.

AMD Clock Version 2.0.1 – AMDClock shows the current speed of each core of each AMD processor in a system. The user has the ability to choose to run the application on top of all other applications and to select the refresh rate for reporting the speeds.

AMD Power Monitor Version 1.2.0 – AMD Power Monitor displays the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. This version of AMD Power Monitor supports systems with Athlon™ FX, mobile AMD Athlon™, AMD Athlon™ X2, AMD Turion™ 64, AMD Turion™ 64 X2, AMD Sempron™, mobile AMD Sempron™, AMD Phenom™, AMD Opteron™, and AMD Opteron™ Third-Generation processors.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – RHEL 4 32 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – RHEL 4 64 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SLES 9 32 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SLES 9 64 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SuSE Linux 10 64 bits (32 not supported due to a kernel bug) – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Processor Driver Version 1.3.2.0053 for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64) – Allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination to match the instantaneous user performance need. This package is a user friendly localized software installation of the driver designed for end-users. This driver supports AMD processors on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 and x64 Editions.

AMD CPUID – This utility displays the processor signature, approximate speed, L1/L2 cache sizes, processor revision, and instruction extensions supported.

AMD CPUInfo Version 2.1.1 – This Windows® application executes and displays the return data from the CPUID instruction set and displays HyperTransport™ technology information if the processor supports it. This application also shows the maximum speed of the processor.

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