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1,663 AMD open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

ATI R200 TV-Out In Open-Source Driver

The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250 (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS patch. Hanno has announced on the project mailing list that all of those involved with the GATOS project have agreed to move away from the GPL in favor of the MIT/X11 license. This relicensing makes it possible for the GATOS code to be merged with the X.Org Radeon R200 driver.

30 July 2007 - Add A Comment
Fedora 7 x86_64 Fix For ATI Driver

If you've been unable to run the new fglrx 8.39.4 driver with Fedora 7 x86_64, mmastrac on our forums has written a guide for fixing the fglrx driver with 64-bit Fedora 7. A bit of hex editing is all that's involved for this support. The 32-bit version of Fedora 7 should work "out of the box" with the fglrx 8.39.4 driver. For help and discussion, check out our AMD/ATI Linux Forum.

29 July 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD "Unsupported Hardware" On Linux

With the fglrx 8.39.4 driver (or newer), there's a chance you may run into a watermark (similar to the AMD testing watermark) saying that your hardware is unsupported when in fact it is supported. If you run into this unsupported hardware watermark, it's likely that /etc/ati/control is missing. If that's the case for you, try reinstalling the driver or manually copying the control file. The driver contents can be extracted using the --extract argument and the control file is located in common/etc/ati/. If you experience this problem, create a thread in the Phoronix Forums with what distribution you are using and how you had installed the driver initially (and whether adding the control file had removed the watermark).

25 July 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD 8.39.4 Driver Re-released

This morning AMD has re-released the 8.39.4 fglrx driver after it was taken down last week over watermark problems. This latest 8.39.4 revision available from the AMD website should properly produce the needed signature to remove this small annoyance from the display. No other changes had went into this release. If you run into any problems with the 8.39.4 driver, be sure to stop by the Phoronix Forums.

23 July 2007 - Add A Comment
Fixing The AMD Watermark Issue

If you've been experiencing the AMD watermark issue with the 8.39.4 Linux driver, there is an unofficial workaround to correct this problem. As is outlined in this Phoronix Forums post, you can obtain the signature value from the ATI/AMD driver package and then manually place it in /etc/ati/signature to remove the "testing use only" watermark. This is not the official workaround sanctioned by AMD and the 8.39.4 fglrx driver was removed from the AMD website earlier today. Find out more in the Phoronix Forums.

20 July 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD Train Runs Off The Tracks, Again

Last month was an odd month where an aticonfig issue had caused two fglrx display drivers to be released in the same month (8.38.6 and 8.38.7). Though it seems the AMD release train has run off the tracks once more and we'll probably see another driver out of the AMD camp in the coming days. If you're using the distribution-specific packaging scripts or obtaining the fglrx driver from a distribution repository, it's recommended to not upgrade to fglrx v8.39.4. While not an issue that will harm you, you'll be stuck with an AMD watermark in the bottom right hand corner of the screen that reads "Testing use only".

20 July 2007 - 2 Comments
AMD Watermark: "Testing Use Only"

Today AMD had released the 8.39.4 display driver, which offers support for Fedora 7 and also corrects some bugs. However, at least one serious issue has crept into this driver. If you are running the fglrx driver right now, chances are there's a black and green watermark in the lower right hand corner of your screen that says "AMD Testing Use Only". This watermark is only supposed to display on internal/beta fglrx builds.

19 July 2007 - 1 Comment
AvivoTool Gets Updated

Over the past several days we have seen some interesting developments with the Avivo driver due to the increased performance (attributed to shadow frame-buffer support). In the past five hours we have seen six commits to the xf86-video-avivo driver. These commits all pertain to avivotool with some of the changes being to dump 128 bytes of EDID data instead of 64 bytes, verbose i2c information, and making i2c more reliable. Additional information is available from the driver gitweb page.

17 July 2007 - Add A Comment
Avivo Driver Gets Shadow FB Support

Last week we reported that version 0.1.0 of the Avivo driver would soon be released and that following day were several noteworthy commits to the driver such as new PCI IDs added and cleaning up the code. Over the weekend, Alexander Larsson has added shadow frame-buffer support. To use the Shadow frame-buffer with the Avivo driver using the latest code from git, the ShadowFB boolean option needs to be added to the device section of the xorg.conf. Jerome Glisse has also fixed the 15 and 16 bits screen color depth with the driver.

15 July 2007 - 9 Comments
Avivo R500 Driver Changes

Yesterday we told you that the Avivo 0.1 driver will be out shortly, and in the past 24 hours now we have seen a number of commits to the Avivo git. There have been eight commits in the past day that range from adding a number of new PCI IDs, removing the FB manager, cleaning up the initialization code, and properly using the Avivo scaler. In total there are now 68 ATI Radeon X100 "R500" GPUs supported. Last month we posted an article on the open-source ATI R500 driver. You can discuss this driver in the Phoronix Forums.

11 July 2007 - 11 Comments
Avivo Linux R500 Driver v0.1.0 Coming

Jerome Glisse has passed along word that version 0.1.0 of the Avivo Driver will soon be released. This open-source R500 and R600 driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 (and eventually Radeon HD 2000) hardware will have support for some shadow things and will be at least as fast as the VESA driver currently along with a few additional fixes. New PCI IDs for other Radeon R500 parts will also be added in Avivo 0.1.0. Jerome mentioned that this should be a good release for deeper and wider testing especially with RandR 1.2.

10 July 2007 - 41 Comments
Open-Source R500 Driver Released

The very first (and very rudimentary) open-source Xorg driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 "R500" series has been released! However, before downloading it, this driver only contains code to initialize and set video modes on the Radeon X1300 to X1600 graphics cards. RandR 1.2 support for the R500 driver is being worked on and may surface shortly. Their current road-map is for getting the Radeon X1600 to X1900 series initialize using this driver, add the RandR 1.2 support, add simple 2D acceleration, work on R500 3D reverse engineering, and implement TTM DRM for memory management. Today's first open-source driver release for the R500 series is available through git on FreeDesktop.org. As this driver progresses we will provide additional information and ultimately benchmarks. The release announcement can be read on the Xorg list.

12 June 2007 - 4 Comments
ATI 6.6.192 Is Out, ATI randr-1.2 Updated

David Airlie has pointed out on his blog that a lot of work has been done on the Radeon randr-1.2 branch to make it a lot more useful, as after Radeon 6.7, the randr-1.2 branch will be merged with the Radeon X.Org driver and 6.7 will be the last release to support mergedFB mode. Airlie also mentioned that a ATI 6.6.192 pre-release is now available. This is a driver for X server 1.3 and includes a lot of fixes made since the last release candidate.

21 May 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD Announces The "Phenom Family"

Known to enthusiasts as "Barcelona" for months, AMD's first quad-core processor series has received its new product name. AMD will not be using any "Athlon" tag with their quad-core parts but instead will be known as "Phenom". While the AMD Phenom processors are not yet available, they will be so shortly. The AMD Phenom announcement can be read in the AMD Press Room. Will The AMD Phenom processors be "Phenom"-enal? You'll need to wait to find out.

14 May 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD Announces The HD 2000 Lineup

AMD has now officially announced the Radeon HD 2000 "R600" generation of graphics cards (also the first to be branded AMD instead of ATI). Two press releases were issued about these new mobile and desktop GPUs, which can be read here and here. There is also a new product page for the ATI HD 2000 Graphics Family. The Phoronix technical preview (with Linux words) on the HD 2000 family can be read in our AMD Radeon HD 2900XT Preview. You can also share this Phoronix article here and discuss it in the Phoronix Forums.

14 May 2007 - Add A Comment
ATI Has a New Commitment

According to Chris Blizzard, taking place at this year's Red Hat Summit is word from AMD's Henri Richard who has made known their commitment on improving their fglrx Linux drivers. More information to come soon.

10 May 2007 - 1 Comment
The ATI R600 on Linux: Good or Bad?

After multiple delays and going through numerous revisions, the ATI/AMD R600 (Radeon 2000 series) GPU family is finally scheduled for released towards the middle of May (circa May 14). Earlier this week some new Microsoft Windows benchmarks for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT surfaced which shows this high-end GPU outperforming NVIDIA's flagship 8800 series. But how well will the Radeon HD 2000 series run under Linux? We have been reporting for several months that we know for a fact ATI/AMD has been working on prompt fglrx R600 support after the troubles that had occurred with the R500 (X1000) series support. However, will the performance in the new fglrx drivers be any better for the R600 series than it was for the inaugural R500 support? Will AMD schedule its new Catalyst driver rewrite for Linux at the same as the R600 launch? Under Linux with the respective binary blobs, what will be the NVIDIA equivalent to the HD 2900 XT and HD 2900 XTX when it comes to the straight-up performance? While we will answer all of these questions after the R600 launch, you can share your thoughts on the potential ATI/AMD R600 impact on Linux in the Phoronix Forums.

25 April 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD Knows Its Problems

Phoronix Forum member Pinx had spotted a new entry in the AMD Customer Care Knowledge-base. This entry was created on April 2 and then was last modified on April 8. In this entry they finally (publicly) acknowledge no support for AIGLX, Beryl, Compiz, MythTV, and TV TIME by the fglrx Linux drivers. The entry can be read here. Remember, things can change and they still can add the support :)

10 April 2007 - 14 Comments
Linux Catalyst Control Center

The AMD Catalyst Control Center for Linux is now available. This fireglcontrolpanel replacement ships with the fglrx 8.35.5 driver (released minutes ago) and has a ton of features. We have all of the details and plenty of screenshots covered at Phoronix. The new driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition (AMDCCCLE) can be discussed in the Phoronix Forums. Please Digg here.

28 March 2007 - Add A Comment
ATI 6.6.191 Driver Released

The ATI 6.6.191 display driver has been released. No no, not the fglrx blob but instead a new release for the open-source ATI Radeon display driver. The ATI 6.6.191 release is a driver in the path to the ATI v6.7.0. The 6.6.191 driver contains major rewrites of the output subsystem and other changes. RandR 1.2 code will be merged with the ATI Radeon driver once X.Org 7.3 is out. The release announcement can be found at FreeDesktop.org.

27 March 2007 - Add A Comment
A Call To Action

Many Linux users have expressed concern over ATI's Catalyst Linux drivers for various reasons, but most of these users seem to be taking the wrong approach. These users express their disapproval and seek improvements by flaming on forums, forming petitions, bombarding the BugZilla, and using the ATI feedback form. However, this isn't really effective. On Michael's Phoronix web-blog he has outlined some strategies for actively engaging ATI/AMD's OEM/ODM/AIB partners in seeking Linux display driver improvements. He also states that at least one major OEM is interested in improved Linux drivers, but they are afraid of adverse effects to the Windows Catalyst drivers.

20 March 2007 - Add A Comment
R500 Reverse Engineering

Today I heard from Daniel Stone who is one of the people working on the R500 reverse engineering. At this point they are still in the early stages of this new driver but within a few weeks they hope the register dumps will become useful... More Information.

5 March 2007 - Add A Comment
AMD 690 Series Chipset

AMD has today launched the new 690 series Chipset. The AMD 690 Chipset incorporates a ATI Radeon X1250 GPU (including Avivo!) and much more for use with AMD processors. The AMD press release is available here. Phoronix will be covering the AMD 690 Chipset under Linux in the near future.

28 February 2007 - Add A Comment
Fedora 7 With ATI/AMD fglrx

If you are interested in running the AMD fglrx display drivers with Fedora 7 (Test 1), Michael Larabel is providing details on this process at MichaelLarabel.com. At the time of posting this news entry, he is still working on verifying that the new packaging scripts are working with Fedora 7. Stay tuned.

2 February 2007 - Add A Comment
New ATI fglrx Control Panel?

It looks like AMD/ATI is working on improving the fireglcontrolpanel, which right now lacks a ton of functionality. However, reports are saying that AMD is working on a new Qt Catalyst Control Panel for Linux, which is rumored to be completed by the end of the calendar year. More information is available in the Phoronix Forums.

30 January 2007 - Add A Comment
Is The ATI Driver Really "Evil"?

Coming across this Digg article yesterday afternoon I found many of the comments to be quite inaccurate (and in some cases comical). A majority of the comments consisted of users bashing the fglrx drivers by typing a variety of obscenities. Those that had bothered to explain themselves were mostly disturbed due to the lack of Composite and Beryl/Compiz support. But does this really equate to the driver being evil and ATI/AMD not caring about their customers? Additional comments on this situation can be read at MichaelLarabel.com.

30 January 2007 - Add A Comment
ATI Year in Review 2006

After publishing our NVIDIA AYiR 2006 earlier this month, we have now posted our ATI AYiR 2006. This nine page piece covers and re-tests all twelve of the fglrx display drivers released this year. We also share a few details about the forecast for ATI next year when it comes to their Linux software. This article can be discussed here and Digged here.

21 December 2006 - Add A Comment
2006 Open-Source AYiR

CNET News has constructed a 2006 year in review for open-source. Among the worthy highlights for this year in regards to open-source software was the public debate on the GNU GPL v3 license, Sun Microsystems picks the GPL for Java, and Microsoft making a Linux pact with Novell. Be sure to share your thoughts on this year's open-source news in the Phoronix Forums.

20 December 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD 8.32.5 Display Driver

Advanced Micro Devices has released the ATI fglrx 8.31.5 Linux display driver. This new driver brings X11R72 support, official Radeon X1950 series support added, and quite a few bug fixes. The latest Linux display drivers for x86 and x86_64 along with accessing the release notes can be accessed from the Proprietary ATI Linux Driver page. The Phoronix review of these drivers can be found here along with Radeon X1950PRO Linux benchmarks. If you run into issues or want to share your thoughts on these drivers, be sure to stop by the forums.

13 December 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD AM2 65nm CPUs Released

AMD has jumped on the 65nm bandwagon today by releasing four AMD Athlon 64 X2 (AM2) processors using their 65nm SOI (Silicon On Insulator) process. These four models include the X2 5000+, 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+. By the middle of 2007, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to fully convert Fab 36 to 65nm production. Today's press release can be read here.

5 December 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD Quad FX Launches

AMD's long awaited Quad FX platform has made its premiere this morning in the form of an AMD press release. The Quad FX is essentially two AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 series processors (also released today) and communicating with each other using DSDCA (Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture) to offer a total of four physical cores. While it does use Socket F, the memory does not need to be ECC registered, but rather uses traditional DDR2 with Non-Uniform Memory Access support. The maker of the Chipset is actually NVIDIA and not ATI. The Quad FX platform also boasts NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI). The slowest in the AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 series is the FX-70 itself at $599 USD per processor, while the FX-72 and FX-74 are $799 and $999 respectively. All hardware for this platform is available today. If four cores aren't enough to suit your demanding needs, you may be interested in dual Intel Xeon 5300 Clovertowns, which will give you an octal core system.

30 November 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD 8.31.5 Display Drivers

AMD has issued the new fglrx display drivers -- coming only two weeks after 8.30.3. The changes are minimal though there is improved X-Video performance for Radeon X1000 products. The Phoronix review can be read here. Meanwhile join in on the discussion here and the release notes are at AMD.

15 November 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI/AMD 8.30.3 Display Drivers

AMD/ATI has today pushed out the fglrx 8.30.3 drivers. No new features are in this October 2006 release but there are a few bug fixes, and the Fedora packager now supports Fedora Core 6 Zod. The 8.30.3 Phoronix review can be found here, and the public discussion here.

31 October 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD + ATI Acquisition Complete

Advanced Micro Device's acquisition of ATI Technologies is now complete. This $5.4 billion (USD) deal took months to complete but is now complete. With this deal now complete in 2007 AMD and ATI expect to deliver integrated platforms. They are also continuing to develop their x86 processor that integrates a CPU and GPU at the silicon level. This project has been codenamed "Fusion", and isn't expected to reach the public market until late 2008 or early 2009. No word was mentioned in the press release of open-sourcing any parts of the ATI graphics drivers. AMD's press release announcing the completed acquisition and future intentions can be found here.

25 October 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI fglrx + Fedora Core 6 How-To

With Fedora Core 6 coming out tomorrow, over at the Redblog I have published a patch to allow the latest ATI fglrx drivers (8.29.6) to run successfully on FC6. This patch is needed in order for the RPMs to build correctly, and a how-to guide is available that documents all of the steps needed to setup the drivers. Simply download the script from the blog, and if all development libraries are installed, the script will automatically update the packaging scripts and take care of everything. This should allow for a much smoother upgrade experience. The blog entry can be read here.

16 October 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI Shareholders Approve AMD

After this morning's meeting in Canada, ATI Shareholders have approved of AMD's acquisition of ATI Technologies. More than 99% of those who voted were in favor of this move. The AMD + ATI transaction is expected to be completed the week of October 23, 2006. The press release can be found here.

13 October 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI 6.6.3 Driver Released

The open-source Radeon drivers for X.Org have reached version 6.6.3. This release features a major bug fix for regression in M6/M7/rn50 devices and a number of smaller fixes. This release is being nominated for X.Org 7.2 and David Airlie has made the driver available for X.Org 7.1. These open-source drivers do not support the Radeon X1000 series. Airlie also mentions that he is working on getting Randr++ support into master branch, driver support for external TMDS transmitters, and support for dual-link DVI monitors. David's blog entry can be found here. For the latest on the official ATI fglrx drivers, our 8.29.6 review can be found here.

4 October 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI 8.29.6 Drivers Released

ATI has come out today with the 8.29.6 CATALYST Linux display drivers. New in this release is Linux 2.6.18 kernel support, bug fixes, and R200 support has been removed. The Phoronix review of these new Linux display drivers can be read here, while the Phoronix Forums have an active discussion.

20 September 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+

Yesterday AMD had snuck out the Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor. This model is virtually the same as the X2 5000+ except it appends another Megabyte of L2 cache. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ specifications consist of a 2.60GHz operating frequency, 2MB L2 Cache, x86_64, AM2 Socket, and 2GHz HyperTransport. The price for the AMD 5200+ will be $403 USD, while the 5000+ is $301 for its PIB price.

7 September 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI Releases New Cards

ATI has issued two (one and two) press releases for announcing their latest graphics cards. These latest Radeon solutions consist of the Radeon X1950XTX, X1900XT 256MB, X1650PRO, and X1300XT. These cards will hopefully be supported by the ATI Linux fglrx drivers next month. A discussion thread has been setup here.

23 August 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD & ATI Merger

The speculations can now come to a close since this morning it's official that AMD and ATI will be merging. This deal is worth an incredible $5.4 Billion (USD), and is expected to be completed later this year. AMD's press release can be found here. Since the most recent speculations, we have been discussing the possible AMD + ATI effects over on our forums.

24 July 2006 - Add A Comment
The State of ATI Linux

Well well, the day has finally come. It is now day number 50; the final day for this ATI Linux trial. With that said, it's about time for me to share some concluding remarks regarding ATI's recent Linux efforts with their monthly fglrx display drivers. On the first day, I didn't know whether I would be able to survive without going green (no pun intended), but towards the end of this experience, it was almost like achieving nirvana... Read the final Phoronix Redblog post here.

20 July 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI Linux 8.26.18 Drivers

There is nothing like starting the week off with a bang as ATI delivers the Windows CATALYST 6.6 and fglrx 8.26.18 Linux display drivers. Yes, the ATI drivers are shipping on a Monday compared against their usual Wednesday routine. After last month's belated 8.25.18 release, these new drivers were originally scheduled to ship on June 7; however, there was a delay on the Windows CATALYST side followed by a second delay bringing it to today. However, the ATI Linux drivers are bringing a fair amount of changes to the table as they had done last month with a host of fixes and other improvements. At Phoronix we have our usual details to share about this fglrx release as well as our traditional performance take... MORE ATI Release Notes (8.26.18)

26 June 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI CrossFire With Physics

This morning at Computex Taipei 2006, ATI Technologies has introduced "Boundless Gaming" -- as they refer to it with their CrossFire products. Rather than simply using two GPUs for ATI CrossFire action, adding a third Radeon graphics card will now be able to assist in the rendering of game physics. Of course, the motherboard needs to support three physical PCI Express x16 slots. ATI's physics implementation uses Havok FX. No ATI physics capabilities will be making their way to the Linux fglrx drivers at least anytime in the near future due to the lack of CrossFire support. ATI's official press release can be found here. MARKHAM, CANADA and COMPUTEX, TAIWAN, Jun 6, 2006 -- ATI Technologies Inc. is loosening the ties that bind gamers to their physical realities by immersing them in a simulation more complete than anything they've seen before. The 'boundless gaming' experience is created by combining the rendering horsepower of two ATI graphics cards with a third devoted to modeling the environment. This asymmetric CrossFire configuration fuses the best looking, highest performing graphics available with physics performance beyond anything available on a PC before. Added to the Intel Core 2 Duo platform, it introduces 'boundless gaming' to the world on the highest performing PC platform ever conceived.

6 June 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD Live! Announcement

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- May 31, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today the next milestone in digital entertainment with the AMD LIVE! PC � a full-featured, easy-to-use media center PC, designed to enable consumers to organize, distribute, share, and enjoy their content collection throughout the home and on the go. Leading OEMs including Acer, Alienware, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gateway, HP, Sahara, and Tsinghua Tongfang, as well as system builders in North America, Western Europe, and China, will have AMD LIVE! PCs, powered by the award-winning AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, starting in June. The AMD LIVE! Entertainment Suite, a collection of services and applications designed to enhance the PC experience, is also available today at www.amdlive.com "The AMD LIVE! PC and AMD LIVE! Entertainment Suite represent the culmination of industry-leading companies collaborating around open standards to deliver compelling entertainment solutions," said Bob Brewer, corporate vice president, Desktop Business, AMD. "With the AMD LIVE! PC, AMD begins delivering on its vision for merging broadcast TV content with interactive, personalized broadband applications and services, all without disrupting the devices already accepted and used by consumers in their homes today." More on AMD Live!

31 May 2006 - Add A Comment
X2 The Threat Ships For Linux

One month after LGP has announced that their port of Egosoft's X2 The Threat had went gold, the game is finally available. Orders are shipping right now, after the previous May 19 shipping date, and this space title can be ordered through Linux Game Publishing or the distribution outlets. Our X2 Linux content is still available, and LGP is still offering up a free demo version of the game.

30 May 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI 8.25.18 + R200 Series

Since Wednesday's launch of May's CATALYST suite, which consists of the Linux fglrx driver, there has been numerous reports of problems when using R200 hardware. Of course, the fglrx v8.25.18 has brought many changes and a few new features beyond what was found in last month's 8.24.08 driver candidate. We have had no problems using these Linux drivers with newer hardware, but we are in the process of looking into this R200 8.25 issue. The only ATI comment at this time has been that they aren't focusing on the older hardware. Of course, the R200 series does have reliable open-source drivers, as well as the ATI Radeon R300 series. Once we know any additional information, we will try to pass it on. Our ATI fglrx v8.25.18 driver article can be found here. UPDATE In the unofficial ATI Bugzilla, more information is available.

26 May 2006 - Add A Comment
ATI Socket AM2 Chipsets

Today, as anticipated ATI has released their line-up of AMD Socket AM2 Chipsets. Both ATI's Radeon Xpress 1100 and CrossFire Xpress 3200 are compatible with the AM2 DDR2 processors. The Southbridge going with either of these chips is the SB600. As stated in our AM2 Technology Preview, SB600 support had found its way into the release candidate 3 for the 2.6.17 kernel. More information on the Linux compatibility/performance to come later at Phoronix. ATI Technologies Inc. is bringing its technology leadership to a new generation of AMD PC users with the introduction of the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset and the ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 series of chipsets, all compatible with socket AM2. The CrossFire Xpress 3200 is the top-performing enthusiast chipset available today and the Radeon Xpress 1100 prepares users for Windows Vista with ATI's fastest integrated graphics ever.

23 May 2006 - Add A Comment
AMD Socket AM2 Processors

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- May 23, 2006 -- As part of AMD�s ongoing commitment to deliver leading technology for desktop PCs, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the immediate availability of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 dual-core processor, the world�s ultimate processor for PC enthusiasts, and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+dual-core processor compatible with AMD�s new socket AM2 platform. Socket AM2 from AMD is designed to enable next-generation platform innovations such as AMD Virtualization and high-performance, unbuffered DDR2 memory to the award-winning AMD64 architecture. Additionally, socket AM2 streamlines the work for motherboard manufacturers, while reducing costs through economies of scale, which can provide better products and increase supply chain flexibility. AMD AM2 Press Release

23 May 2006 - Add A Comment

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