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Location is destiny for AMD Markham
ATI was one of Toronto’s first tech companies; the legacy lives on at AMD. How much influence does place of ...
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AMD looks ahead to gains in the workstation market
The workstation market represents the high end of desktop computing. AMD has a small share of this market and is ...
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Review: AMD Cayman-generation FirePro V7900 and FirePro V5900
The graphics arm of AMD, what we once called ATI, is clearly on the rebound. Alex Herrera takes a close ...
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AMD finally gets a new CEO
After eight months with an interim leader, AMD turns to former Lenovo COO Rory Read. Jon Peddie takes a look ...
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AMD taps Optis for open ray-tracing
The importance of highly realistic rendering drives both companies to work for a common goal of an open technology visualization ...
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Will Fusion propel AMD back into the workstation processor market?
It has been a rough few years for AMD as a player in workstations. But JPR senior analyst Alex Herrera ...
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2007: ATI, NVIDIA Reach for High Performance Computing Status
2007 was a pivotal year in the advancement of computer graphics. Both AMD and Nvidia introduced new technologies for general-purpose ...
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Nvidia positions Quadro 400 to seduce AutoCAD users
The real competition for this entry-level professional graphics card is not something from AMD but Nvidia’s game-card line. By Alex ...
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2007: ATI, NVIDIA Reach for High Performance Computing Status
An early introduction to general purpose computing on graphics processing units, as envisioned in 2007 by Nvidia and AMD. Originally ...
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Bunkspeed Shot debuts as first Iray end-user application
On July 26, Bunkspeed released Shot, an application for making realistic renderings quickly. It’s the first end-user application of mental images Iray interactive realistic rendering technology. Mental images became a subsidiary of graphics-chip maker Nvidia in December 2007.
