AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip? Intel has been manufacturing desktop ...

To continue the tradition of offering an incredibly wide selection of value-driven parts, AMD last month added five new models to its line-up, consisting of three Athlon II’s and two Phenom II’s. Some ...

Although today AMD is announcing just two new processors, rumor has it we can expect a few more new models in the coming months. The Phenom II X6 1090T BE and 1055T processors are based on the ...

Phenom II 955 Black Edition is AMD's newest processor on the block. It is based around the same K10 architecture that all the other Phenom processors are based on. Using the 45nm wafer design, AMD is ...

AMD is using the prominence of the Computex show in Taipei to unveil a slew of new, affordable desktop processors. A few of them are based on the existing core employed within their Phenom II ...

The story sounds familiar: Intel hits a new milestone in nanometer architecture, and AMD waits a while to follow up. It happened with 65nm processors, and it’s happening again now. Two days shy of a ...

AMD has had a rocky start to its latest architectural update. K10 has had its major downs, suffering right from the start with the TLB bug in the B1 and B2 stepping cores. When they were first ...

AMD is trying really hard to get the most out of their processor series. As such nearly on a bi-monthly basis they introduce a new processor, sometimes even two at a time. And that's good, great in ...

When it launched in early January, Phenom II's sole purpose, its raison d'?tre, was to rejuvenate AMD's ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, ...

Now here's a hint for a contest we are running ;) When AMD launched the initial Phenom processors, they did so under the codename 'Spider'. Spider entailed the AMD 780 chipset, Radeon series 3000/4000 ...

Just two weeks ago AMD launched their new Phenom II X4 processors. As we learned in our review, the flagship model also known as the Phenom II X4 940 performs on par with its Core 2 Quad competition, ...

As AMD’s latest family of desktop processors isn’t slated for release until well into next year, the company is essentially left tinkering with its current Phenom range until then. One result of this ...