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Meta agrees $60bn deal with AMD, details of Apple’s March 4th launch announced
The owner of Facebook has agreed to buy $60bn (£44.5bn) of artificial intelligence chips from the US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices despite fears over the vast sums being spent on […]
Renewables overtake coal for world’s electricity, Snapchat users share fury at storage fees
For the first time in history, renewable energy has produced more of the world’s electricity than coal, according to a new analysis of global energy trends. In the first half […]
Nvidia and AMD agree to pay US government 15% of China revenue for export licences
In a highly unusual move to resume sales to China, US chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of their Chinese revenues from specific high-powered […]
AMD "Never Settle Forever" GPU bundles will offer you your pick of free PC games
On the face of things, free games bundled in with PC graphics cards seem like great deals, regularly popping in top games alongside the hardware to power them. The problem is, if you're a hardcore PC gamer to begin with,…
Nvidia 650 Ti Boost graphics card offers solid 1080p performance for under £150
Nvidia are making aggressive moves in the budget end of the PC gaming graphics card market today, introducing the Nvidia 650 Ti Boost card. Less than a week since the unveiling of the rival new AMD HD 7790, it seems…
Nvidia bringing PhysX and APEX support to AMD powered PS4
It may be powered by AMD graphics chips, but that won't stop rival graphics gurus Nvidia popping some of their own technologies into the forthcoming Sony PlayStation 4. The company has just announced that it will update its software development…
Cheap ultrabook alternatives on the way from AMD
We're all saving the pennies for an ultrabook after the slew of them released at CES 2012, but perhaps we wont need quite as much dough to get some ultra-thin, ultra-powerful computers on our laps. That's because it seems…
Next Xbox to have Avatar-quality graphics, say AMD
While we're still very much in the rumour stages of what to expect from a new Xbox console, a new report from the American arm of the Official Xbox Magazine has revealed some very exciting details indeed, especially if…
AMD Radeon HD 6990M revealed – the fastest notebook GPU on the planet
AMD have just revealed the Radeon HD 6990M, claiming that it's the world's fastest single mobile graphics processor. Set to hit a string of high-end gaming rigs including the Alienware M18x, it comes just weeks after NVIDIA claimed the…
AMD takes its world-leading graphics technology to the humble laptop
(Guest post from Shiny Shiny) The brand new Radeon HD 6990 graphics processor is the fastest graphics technology in the world – no small claim by semiconductor design company AMD, but it seems to be merited. 'This is for the…
