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AMD Wants To Come To India In A Big Way
Global market leader in the chip making business, AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way. It has already tied up with HSMC in order to manufacture chips locally in the country. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. “AMD wants to come to India in a big way,” Prasad said. According to an official, Su discussed matters related to semi-conductor policy and its fab proposal. AMD has entered into an MoU with HSMC to explore various options for providing technology licence to manufacture micro processors in the semi conductor fabs. The government is working to make India a big hub of electronics manufacturing and is giving providing vari...
Sulon Q: AMD’s Tether-Free Virtual Reality Headset
In a surprising announcement at GDC, we now have a new big player in the VR market, the Sulon Q. Developed by Sulon Technologies, the Sulon Q is a Head-Mounted-Display designed for virtual reality, augmented reality, and spatially aware computing. The Sulon Q HMD is a fully tether-free HMD with its own computational system. The headset features an AMD FX-8800P processor and R7 Radeon graphics with four compute cores and eight GPU cores, similar to a game console. Sulon said the headset includes a 2560x1440p OLED display and features a 110-degree viewing angle. The headset also includes AstoundSound Technology for spatial audio processing, and a 3.5mm audio jack to plug in headphones. The Sulon Q comes with a pair of “spatially-optimized” earbuds. The Sulon Q headset is capable of virtual r...
AMD To Enable New Optimizations For Monster Hunter Online
AMD today announced it is collaborating with Tencent Games to bring new features, performance and functionality to Monster Hunter Online (MHO) in January, a leading massive multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) for the China market. These improvements will significantly enhance the gaming experience for gamers and i-café players, including: AMD TressFX for natural hair and fur: Building on the world’s first real-time hair physics system, TressFX enables hair, fur and grass to look real and react to movement and weather in the game environment. With the planned roll-out of TressFX in MHO by the end of January 2016, monsters will come to life with natural-looking fur making them seem more realistic while delivering a more immersive gaming experience. AMD Eyefinity technology fo...
AMD Brings Out Their Big Guns At CES 2016
For those of you tracking the announcements at CES over the last week, here’s the highlights from AMD, the forefront of which was their unveiling of their revolutionary Polaris GPU architecture. They also announced their long awaited near-silent Wraith cooler, along with the highly anticipated A10-7890K APU, which is AMD’s fastest APU ever. These along with other announcements like AMD’s High Performance Gaming Platform, made AMD a frontrunner for cost-effective solutions beyond 1080p. Finally, AMD also announced their Next generation CPU and APU SoC “Summit Ridge” and “Bristol Ridge” as a part of their evolution for Desktop Platform Evolution. And for more news and reviews, keep checking back at Gaming Central.
AMD Achieves Leading Market Share For Thin Clients
AMD announced that the company achieved a number one market share position for thin clients based on its thin-client shipments. According to its unit sales to thin client customers last year, AMD has more than half of that market, with 53 percent market share.1 Thin clients, with little or no local storage, often serve as intelligent front-ends for server or cloud-based applications. Thin clients using AMD Embedded G-Series have a strong value proposition for immersive graphics in single- or multi-display configurations in the enterprise. Recent design wins with HP, Fujitsu, and Samsung validate that AMD APUs provide compelling value with horsepower for data movement, encryption/decryption of central server data, and even video encode/decode for video conferencing or multimedia streaming. ...
AMD Launches The Industry’s Best Performing Low Profile Graphics Card For CAD
Today at Autodesk University 2015, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled the AMD FirePro™ W4300 for the best Computer-Aided Design (CAD) performance that fits both small form factor (SFF) and tower workstations.1 The AMD FirePro W4300 card expertly integrates a powerful GPU and 4GB of GDDR5 memory within a low-profile design for installation in SFF as well as full-sized systems. Organizations can now confidently simplify their IT management by standardizing on a single, capable professional graphics solution throughout their workstation deployment. The AMD FirePro W4300 professional graphics card is optimized for the latest CAD applications including Autodesk® AutoCAD, Inventor as well as Revit®, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® and CATIA®, PTC Creo®, Siemens NX™, and many more. Engineering professiona...
Radeon Software Crimson Edition: Redesigned, Refined, and Supercharged
AMD today released its completely reimagined graphics software suite, Radeon Software Crimson Edition, giving users an exceptional new user experience, 12 new or enhanced features, up to 20 percent more graphics performance1, adjustability that can nearly double generational energy efficiency2, and rock-solid stability across the full spectrum of AMD graphics products. The release is the first from the Radeon Technologies Group, which recently announced a renewed focus on software placing it on par with hardware initiatives. “As the primary way that people interact with our products, our software deserves to be viewed as a top priority, and going forward that’s exactly what we’re doing, delivering easy-to-use software that is packed with real user benefits, starting with Radeon Software Cr...
AMD Refreshes Their APU Lineup with the A8-7870K
AMD launched the A8-7670K APU in their Godavari line of APUs, featuring native Windows 10 support and unparelleled performance at the budget. For the people not in the know, an APU combines a CPU and a proper GPU in one die. This APU has 10 computational cores: 4 CPU running up to 3.9GHz + 6 GPU running at 757MHz. The integrated GPU in this case is an unspecified Radeon R7 class GPU, which, while not on par with proper dedicated mid-range GPUs, outperforms embedded solutions by a country mile. An upscaled version of these APUs are most famously present in the Xbox One and PS4. The A8-7670k comes packed with all the Radeon goodies: AMD Eyefinity for multi-monitor setups, FreeSync, AMD’s Gaming Evolved, which allows game footage capturing and automatic game optimisation, Virtual Super ...
AMD Ushers in a New Era of PC Gaming
AMD today ushered in a new era of PC gaming, unveiling its line of next-generation AMD Radeon™ graphics cards at a live webcast held in Los Angeles and broadcast to thousands of gamers around the world, joined by industry giants Microsoft®, EA and Oculus. The AMD next-generation graphics cards mark a technology turning point in PC gaming, bringing super high resolutions, exceptional VR experiences, smoother gameplay, support for new, advanced APIs like DirectX® 12 and Vulkan™, and groundbreaking form factors to gamers everywhere through a top-to-bottom line of GPUs that fit virtually every need and budget. Radeon™ R9 Fury series graphics – Don’t just upgrade. Revolutionize. Radeon™ R9 300 series graphics cards – Designed for your survival. Radeon™ R7 300 series graphics cards – Strike firs...
AMD Demonstrates Revolutionary 14nm FinFET Polaris GPU Architecture
AMD provided customers with a glimpse of its upcoming 2016 Polaris GPU architecture, highlighting a wide range of significant architectural improvements including HDR monitor support, and industry-leading performance-per-watt. AMD expects shipments of Polaris architecture-based GPUs to begin in mid-2016. AMD’s Polaris architecture-based 14nm FinFET GPUs deliver a remarkable generational jump in power efficiency. Polaris-based GPUs are designed for fluid frame rates in graphics, gaming, VR and multimedia applications running on compelling small form-factor thin and light computer designs. “Our new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power efficiency and features,” said Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD. “2016 will be a very exciting year for Radeon™ fans driven...