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extremetech.com - 1/8/2009

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Review - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech

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When AMD finally shipped its quad core Phenom processors last December, the general response to the shipment was underwhelming. Phenom was late to the party, and not fashionably late, either. Unable to keep up with even low-end Intel quad core CPUs, Phenom was relegated to the bargain bin. In ...

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amd.com - 1/6/2009

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— amd.com — AMD Delivers Groundbreaking Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks —The AMD Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks Delivers Balanced PC Performance... with True HD Entertainment 1 in a Surprisingly Affordable, Amazingly Thin Notebook— LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- January 6, ... (more) News Room Home

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gigaom.com - 1/6/2009

Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — Freescale said Monday it would offer an ARM-based chip that could lead to a $200 Linux-based netbook... , offering about twice the amount of usage on a single battery charge as Intel’s Atom processor allows. Freescale’s efforts are nothing ... (more) Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing [GigaOM]

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hothardware.com - 1/8/2009

Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940

— hothardware.com — AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a... time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction ... (more) Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940

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AMD Announces Phenom II
Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller — ... chance to try out a real system. I'm looking forward to it. Meanwhile, not to be left out, VIA Technologies is also showing its Nano processor which runs at 1.2 GHz and 1.3 GHz and seems mostly designed for the mini-note category, specifically when teams with its S3 Graphics Chrome discrete GPU. This probably won't have the performance of the new AMD Nano announced Tuesday, but instead will be more focused at the Netbook market where it will go up against Intel's Atom. Here is ExtremeTech's take on the Phenom II .

AMD gets competitive again with the introduction of the Phenom II X4 processors
Krunker — ... changes here – still utilize AM2+ motherboards Where Phenom II will truly compete is in the area of price. The 3GHz Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition will have a price of $275. The Phenom II X4 920 at 2.8GHz will be available for $235. This translates to inexpensive quad core systems with comparable performance to more expensive Core 2 Quad systems and low end Core i7 systems. With that said, here’s a rundown of early reviews and their verdicts: ExtremeTech reviews the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition and has this to say: “If ...

Testing a Phenom II: Better, But Where Are The Business Systems?
Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller — ... a few weeks ago, I've been interested in trying one out and seeing how it would perform on some high-end tasks. As usual, I'm not going to bother reporting results with things like Sysmark or testing games, as there are so many other sites that do that. (For instance, check out ExtremeTech's review here ; my earlier post has links to reviews at a number of sites). Instead, I'm mostly going to focus on difficult spreadsheets and how the Phenom II stacks up against AMD's earlier Phenom and Intel's Core2Quad and Core i7 processors. For this test, I used a reference system AMD ...