AMD yesterday announced their first 28nm GPU, the Radeon HD 7970. It is scheduled to arrive in the US on January 9th, priced at $549 (about Rs. 27,000). But looks like AMD is adding the fun to the Indian market in 2012 by planning to release it within another few weeks of the US release. The new Rig boosting GPU has a  925MHz engine clock overclock-able to 1.1GHz, 2,048 stream processors , a 384-bit memory bus with 3GB of GDDR5.

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AMD has published its Q3 results, and the company reports a total revenue of US $ 1.69 Billion. With a total income of approx. US $ 97 million. This is up from the  $61 million in Q2 and a whole leap away from the $118 million loss posted this time last year. Even the Graphics division (ATI) is reporting a net profit of US $ 12 Million up from the 7 Million Loss. Good going AMD , hopefully we can expect much better from them , Check out the excruciatingly long Earnings report below.

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AMD has revealed plans of selling Radeon branded Ram, aimed at the gaming community. The Ram will be available in three types, the entry-level “Entertainment” sticks (clocked at 1333MHz), followed by speedier “Ultra Pro Gaming” (1600MHz) and an “Enterprise” RAM of an unknown speed.

AMD claims that the DDR3 module is tested to the highest industry standards. The price of a 2GB stick is about US$ 20 or INR 850/-.

Although there is no news of India sales.

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AMD has launched its A-Series Chips. These Chips have a combination CPU + GPU chips in a single package that the company is dubbing APUs or Accelerated Processing Unit. The A-series was formerly known under the code name Llano. The company describes the new chips as follows:

[quote]AMD A-Series APUs combine up to four x86 CPU cores with powerful DirectX 11-capable discrete-level graphics and up to 400 Radeon cores along with dedicated HD video processing on a single chip. [/quote]

The processors will be available as the A4, A6, and A8 and are meant for mid to high-level laptops. The [...]