Chip manufacturer AMD has launched a trio of new eight core FX processors, based on the older Piledriver architecture. Released today are the FX-8370 and FX-8370E which peak at 4.3GHz, as well as the 4GHz FX-8320E. All three chips buck industry trends and don’t have an onboard graphical processing unit. The FX-8370 has 8MB of […]
AMD has unveiled what it calls the world’s first commercially available 5GHz CPU processor at the E3 gaming show. The FX-9590, an eight-core chip using the ‘Piledriver’ architecture that reaches 5GHz in turbo mode, is accompanied by the FX-9370, which also has eight cores and the same architecture, but is clocked at the slightly slower […]
Computer chipmaker AMD will turn to Cyclos Semiconductor for its resonant clock mesh technology in its upcoming Piledriver-based chips. They will replace the Bulldozer-core chips introduced in the fall of 2011. The new technology will reduce the chip’s clock distribution power. The technology will reduce distribution power by as much as 24 percent, while maintaining […]