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It’s AMD 965BE day, boys ‘n girls

Travis Burrell — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:52:37 +0000

Get your 3.4GHz goodness on. Looks like the 965 stacks up pretty dang well against Intel’s Core i7 920, & has a much lower TCO to boot. When the Core i5 models hit retail, I’d expect AMD to drop the 965 under $200, making it that much more appealing… Read for yourself:

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AMD celebrates 500 million; Fusion at 22nm

Travis Burrell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:14:11 +0000

Twitterers on point have a chance to pick up a free HP Pavilion dv2zs courtesy of AMD starting next week. AMD is giving the laptops away as part of the celebration for shipping their 500 millionth processor. That’s a lot of silicon. Congrats to the Sunnyvale boys.

In other AMD news, Fuad’s reporting that we can expect the Fusion CPU/GPU combo chip to debut in 2H 2012 at 22nm.