Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processors for desktops are already showing up in online retail stores prior to the chips’ official launch later this month. Online retailer Provantage is taking orders for AMD’s six-core Phenom II X6 1090T processor, which runs at...

Nvidia on Friday introduced its fastest graphics cards to date, which will be able to play back 3D movies on PCs and bring more realistic images to games. The new graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, are based on Nvidia’s new graphics-processing-unit architecture called Fermi, which was...

Nvidia’s new Fermi chip is being billed as a supercomputing chip but Nvidia doesn’t want you to forget that it is also aimed at Apple’s Snow Leopard and Windows 7. The Fermi chip was announced with much fanfare on Wednesday as key silicon in a future supercomputer from Oak Ridge National...

Advanced Micro Devices has added new desktop processors to its chip lineup, including an upgraded quad-core chip that draws less power. Bottom Line Telecommunications, an online vendor, is taking preorders for an updated version of the Phenom II X4 945 quad-core processor, which draws less power than its...

Advanced Micro Devices’ spinoff Globalfoundries will use a groundbreaking ceremony this Friday to proclaim that it’s ready to go head to head with the world’s largest chipmakers. Globalfoundries, formerly the chip manufacturing operations of AMD, will break ground next week in Malta, N.Y.,...