Visit us at the following shopping precinct locations where live AMD and Windows Vista™ demonstrations will take place each day!
Learn more about AMD and Windows Vista™ in Music, Gaming, Entertainment and Digital Memories!
Plus, enter the prize draw to win an ASUS laptop based on AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology and Windows Vista™ Home Premium and the opportunity to win 2 tickets to the UK film premiere of Transformers!
Digital Imaging
See more in your home movies and photos.
With AMD performance, you can take full advantage of the brilliant clarity of Windows Vista™. See the butterfly on the tree behind you in your holiday photos. Catch your child’s every facial expression in your home movies. AMD and Windows Vista also give you full support for multiple monitors, to make the experience of making and editing home movies much richer.
View and share photos on the big screen or online.
Use advanced features of AMD LIVE!™ PCs to consolidate all of your photos and videos in one place, made easier by the glass-like windows and advanced search capabilities of Windows Vista. Then share and access photos and home movies through your set-top box, game console, MP3 player and mobile phone — to enjoy your digital images anytime, anywhere.
TV & Movies
Watch your favourite shows and movies in their full, panoramic glory.
Nothing you’ve seen on a PC can compare with the visual resonance of Windows Vista™ powered by AMD processors and graphics. Experience stunning, even-better-than-the-cinema resolution and sound quality that make the comedy funnier, the horror scarier and the action more exciting.
Take TV and movies beyond the media room.
With an AMD LIVE!™ PC and Windows Vista Premium, you can record TV shows and movies in their full visual richness to hard drive or DVD — then transfer them to your notebook or PDA to take them with you on the go. Want to share your new favourite show while visiting family? How about choosing your own movie on the aeroplane? The possibilities could completely change the way you experience digital entertainment.
Gaming
You’ve never played games like this.
With the AMD Quad FX platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect architecture, you can take full advantage of the latest enhancements delivered by Windows Vista™ Ultimate. Like leading-edge performance in life-like games and multi-tasking. Plus, everything is built for the rich, visual sophistication of Windows Vista, so you have the ultimate gaming experience.
Win the World Cup in even more lifelike surroundings.
With AMD processors and ATI Radeon™ graphics powering the incredible visual capabilities of Windows Vista, gaming characters have a full range of life-like 3D motion, so you can kick, chop, swing and fly through the action with no hesitation. You can also choose higher display resolution with a sharper image that lets you play the way you were meant to. From rolling thunderstorms to individual droplets of rain to swaying blades of grass, you get totally immersed in your gaming experience, pixel by pixel.
Music
Rock out or chill out — the choice is yours.
Your music library continues to grow, and what you want to listen to at any given time depends on your mood. So get an AMD LIVE!™ PC with Windows Vista™ to organise and integrate all your music on your PC. Access and choose from the options on your computer monitor or TV screen. Then stream music to your entertainment centre and mobile devices to enjoy the music wherever you are, no matter your mood.
Listen to your music, not your PC.
Want your next media centre PC to be quiet, whether it’s in your home office or your living room? Get an AMD LIVE! PC with Windows Vista — it’s got AMD Cool’n’Quiet™ technology, so you can enjoy your favourite playlist, with a quieter PC.
Communication
Go wireless and go for it all.
Want faster wireless web downloads? You got it. Need a better online experience when you’re on the go? No problem. With industry-leading WLAN solutions from AMD partners, you can get higher throughput, better range and outstanding power efficiency, so you can go further, download faster and do it longer. With leading WLAN solutions and an AMD dual-core technology-based system, you can download emails and digital photos faster — from anywhere in your house or while hanging out by the pool. So go for it, no matter where you are.
Productivity
Do more, faster — and discover the ultimate visual experience that blends high performance and high productivity.
Enriched with cinematic gaming, brilliant photos, smooth video and TV, the PC comes alive as a high-quality entertainment portal. AMD processors, graphics, video and display technologies deliver the power for maximum enjoyment of the Windows Aero™ 3D desktop, HD video playback, and supports next-generation technologies, devices, high-resolution displays, and multi-monitor setups. With unmatched functionality and reliable operation, ATI Radeon™ graphics technologies powering Windows Vista™ introduce a new era of personal PC productivity.
Find, share and use information more efficiently.
With Windows Vista’s cutting-edge search technology and AMD’s high-performance dual-core processing and graphics technologies, you can quickly find what you need across your desktop, hard drive and the Internet, and share it with the people who need it. Windows Vista’s glass-like, translucent windows and 3D Flip make it easier to switch back and forth between email, IM and other applications. And to ensure that all this multi-tasking won’t slow you down, AMD’s dual-core processors give you all the power you need, even for the most demanding applications.
AMD + ATI RADEON™ GRAPHICS = The Ultimate Windows Vista™ Experience
AMD and ATI have joined forces. The new AMD combines AMD’s technology leadership in microprocessors with ATI’s strengths in graphics, chipsets and consumer electronics.
Windows Vista, powered by the new AMD, presents a new visual dimension for business and personal computing, powered by the world’s most advanced graphics processors.
source: amd
Intel Atom Processor
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Intel's smallest chip. Built with the world's smallest transistors¹.
"This is our smallest processor built with the world's smallest transistors. The Intel® Atom™ processor is based on an entirely new design, built for low power and designed specifically for a new wave of Mobile Internet Devices and simple, low-cost PC's. This small wonder is a fundamental new shift in design, small yet powerful enough to enable a big Internet experience on these new devices. We believe it will unleash new innovation across the industry."
– Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney
As Intel's smallest and lowest power processor², the Intel Atom processor enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), affordable Internet-focused notebooks (netbooks), and desktops (nettops). It's also the foundation for the all new Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology, a collection of chips enabling amazing Internet experiences in pocketable devices.
- Get a new range of performance-packed, power-efficient devices with excellent performance enabled by all new hafnium-infused 45nm high-k silicon technology
- Increase energy efficiency in smaller more compact designs with a thermal design power specification ranging from subwatt to 2.5 watts for mobile devices
- Extend battery life in select devices with an incredibly low idle power as low as 30 mW allowing the device to stay powered on while also conserving energy
Based on an entirely new microarchitecture, the Intel Atom processor was developed specifically for performance and low power while maintaining full Intel® Core™ microarchitecture instruction set compatibility. Some future Intel Atom processors will also feature multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness.
Devices powered by Intel Atom processors allow you to stay in touch on-the-go, connect to business and enjoy entertainment, remain connected affordably with a new series of netbooks and nettops, and so much more...
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Now Available For Download
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All platforms: Mozilla's just made the latest release of the Firefox 3 beta available for download. Mozilla says Beta 5 "includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility." Testers and those willing to live on the edge with Beta 5 will get speedier Javascript handling in webappps like Gmail and Zoho Office, better Windows/Mac/Linux integration, and an improved Places (bookmarks) organizer. After the jump, see the list of Beta 5 improvements pulled from the release notes. Update: The final release of Firefox 3 is slated for June.
DOWNLOAD Firefox 3 beta 5
- Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
- Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
- Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
- Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
- Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 5, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
Intel's Atom processor unveiled
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We dive into Silverthorne and the Menlow platform
The trend toward ever smaller and cheaper PC components is, of course, nothing new. Chips have shrunk and prices have fallen for over 30 years now. Yet that trend has accelerated dramatically in recent years, spurred onward by the rise of mobile computing and signified by the success of low-cost laptops like the Asus Eee PC and high-zoot mobile computers like the iPhone. Sensing this trend, the world's largest chipmaker kicked off an effort four years ago to develop a CPU that could fit inside the power, heat, and size requirements of such devices while maintaining compatibility with its existing lineup of PC processors. Internally at Intel, this processor became known as Silverthorne, and the core logic associated with it was code-named Poulsbo. Together, they make up the so-called Menlow platform, whose development we've been tracking for some time now...
Full article: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14458
Only Intel Marketing Can Sell At 1500% Margins
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How many businesses can sell chips at 1500% margins?? I bet you won't believe to buy processors at that price even if you were in Zimbabwe's inflation... But that doesn't stop Intel to sell its upcoming Atom processors at those margins, if you were to believe TGDaily. TGDaily noted earlier that Intel produces these small processors at $8 including packaging and shipping. And according to the latest pricelist, Intel hopes to sell these at $135!!
Atom is the upcoming generation of low-power processors meant for MID (Mobile Internet Devices) that come in really small packages. I noted earlier about how much noise Atom has been generating even though its not the best performing part out there. But according to Anand, it seems Atom is some special change in architecture that's gonna change the future of computing. May be Anand's seen that 'Crystal Ball' of the future, but it still got me wondering about the hype and the pricelist just added up to the hype.
The price list is as seen below:
- Atom Z500, 800 MHz clock speed, 512 KB L2 cache, FSB400, 0.65 watt TDP, $45 (including chipset)
- Atom Z510, 1.1 GHz, 512 KB, FSB400, 2 watt, $45 (including chipset)
- Atom Z520, 1.33 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyper-threading, 2 watt, $65 (including chipset)
- Atom Z530, 1.60 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyper-threading, 2 watt, $95 (including chipset)
- Atom Z540, 1.86 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyper-threading, 2.4 watt, $160 (including chipset)
Hyper-threading is back and just like James Reinders had told me to expect it in every upcoming Intel chip, it isn't really a surprise. Technologically, there are quite a few new things in Atom, but claiming all of them to be path-breaking doesn't make good sense. Its more like bringing the original Pentium back to a new fabrication and adding some lessons learnt from Pentium M. I think any ARM design without much dramatic changes would easily be able to beat Atom today. And if we had Intel giving x86 licenses away, then we would really have an 'apple vs apple' comparison (pun intended!!)... But I'll talk about the architecture some other day...
Is Intel Playing Bully Again ??
You must be thinking Intel has gone crazy with the pricing on this one, but there is some logic behind it. And the logic is called Intel marketing... Intel has been known to sell processors that are not the best performing in the market at higher street price during 'NetBurst' era. AMD alleges that Intel sold its processors at lower prices to PC vendors on the condition that they would sell Intel-only machines. It had major market share then, and I don't think it will be any different now!! If you go by the same logic, probably that margin is only for the lame buyer and not for Intel buddies.
World wants small, cheap PCs, say makers of small, cheap PCs
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11th April 2008 08:04 GMT
World+Dog wants small, cheap computers, companies making small, cheap computers have claimed.
First Asus, manufacturer of the popular elfin laptop, the Eee PC. According to a DigiTimes report, Asus President Jerry Shen this week forecast that global shipments of small, cheap computers would hit 10m units this year.
In 2009, shipments will jump to 20m units, he said - a 100 per cent growth rate.
Asus Eee PC and friend: desired globally
Chip maker Intel is particularly keen to drive the small, cheap computer market having just launched a line of processors to power small, cheap computers. The company behind the Atom brand recently predicted that the category will see double-digit year-on-year growth over the next three years.
Come 2011, annual worldwide small, cheap computer shipments will hit 47m units, Intel told notebook manufacturers. Through handheld internet devices into the mix, and the total jumps to 100m units, the chip giant said.
No wonder VIA and Intel want in on all this small, cheap computer action.© The Register.
Intel builds software engine to shrink laptops and mobiles
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10th April 2008 17:28 GMT
Intel has given a glimpse of the software its building so mobile computers can detect and communicate with a variety of devices, reducing the size of machine you need to lug about.
Lester Memmott, a senior architect in Intel's software pathfinding and innovation group, has revealed the existence of an experimental context-aware computing engine that could provide the framework for this next generation of mobile devices and applications.
Memmott said his team has built a running prototype with a plug-in architecture that can accept data from a variety of different sources. The data schema is extensible so third-party developers can add further data sources. The context-aware computing engine prototype includes a data collection mechanism (called an aggregator) and a programmable analyzer that can take decisions based on the context data.
The idea is that if you walked into a coffee bar that has WiFi access and there's an HD screen then your mobile device could detect the screen and format data such as pictures to suit, and that you'd then be able to transmit and display these pictures.
ntel's so-called Carry Small, Live Large vision for mobile computing is built on context-aware concepts that have been developed during the last decade, and that it hopes will drive the idea of small yet powerful portable devices capable of working with keyboards, mice, audio systems, high-definition televisions and other external digital resources. Intel used last week's Intel Developers Forum in Shanghai, China, to describe CSLL.
Elsewhere, Intel is exploring a concept called Dynamic Composable Computing to enable mobile devices to link to available resources easily.
The big worry is that some folk might use this technology as a modern equivalent of the slide projector and bore us all stupid with their holiday snaps in bars and restaurants.
© The Register.
AMD makes big gains in graphics
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7th April 2008 09:19 GMT
AMD did a rather better job of selling graphics chips in Q4 2007 than it did in the previous quarter. But then so did its arch rival, Intel, market watcher Jon Peddie Research said last week.
According to JPR's latest figures, AMD took 22.8 per cent of GPU sales in Q4 2007, up 3.7 percentage points from 19.1 per cent in Q3. AMD's share of the market was just over half of what Intel achieved: 41.1 per cent, up from 38 per cent in Q3.
The two chip makers' gains came partly at Nvidia's expense - its market share fell from Q3's 33.9 per cent to Q4's 31.8 per cent, a fall of just 2.1 percentage points - but mostly from the remaining top-five vendors: VIA and SiS.
Fifth-placed SiS saw is share fall from 2.1 per cent to 1.9 per cent quarter on quarter, but VIA took the biggest hit, falling from a Q3 share of 6.63 per cent to just 2.3 per cent in Q4.
Nvidia's share dip marks a slight pause in an upward trajectory that saw it pass AMD in Q3 2006 and, a year later, come within striking range of Intel's lead. Indeed, in Q4, it pretty much matched Intel's share of desktop graphics, both firms taking around 37.1 per cent of the market.
ntel continued to dominate the mobile GPU arena, though AMD took second place, knocking Nvidia into the number-three slot, a space the latter hasn't occupied since Q1 2007.
The top-three vendors all saw their shipments rise quarter on quarter, but both VIA and SiS experienced a dip in shipments, JPR's numbers show.
The graphics market as a whole saw shipments rise 8.7 per cent to 106.37m units.
© The Register.
AMD vs. Intel: power efficiency in the server room rests on RAM
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Late last year, AMD responded to Intel's "Clovertown" Xeon launch by touting the differences between the power efficiencies of platforms based on its Opteron versus those based on Intel's dual-core "Woodcrest" Xeons. AMD did not (and still doesn't) have a quad-core answer to Clovertown, so the company played to its strengths by (rightly) emphasizing the performance per watt of Opteron-based systems viewed as a whole. Tech Report was one site that looked into AMD's claims and found that in spite of Intel's clear lead over AMD in CPU performance per watt, AMD's server platform has a substantial lead over Intel's when it comes to system-level power efficiency under certain significant types of load conditions. What this means is that when power is measured at the wall socket instead of at the processor socket, Opteron systems can give better performance per watt than Woodcrest systems.
full article
Intel v. AMD: The joy of blood feuds
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Intel v. AMD: The joy of blood feuds - CNN Money
"Since servers are where the most money (and industry glory) is made in the processor business, this was a very big deal. Meanwhile, Intel embarked on a painstaking process of imitation and by last year, after much internal Sturm und Drang, the company concocted product that matched much of what AMD achieved with Opteron. "
"Since servers are where the most money (and industry glory) is made in the processor business, this was a very big deal. Meanwhile, Intel embarked on a painstaking process of imitation and by last year, after much internal Sturm und Drang, the company concocted product that matched much of what AMD achieved with Opteron. "
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