We have already mentioned in the news on the graphics adapter series AMD Radeon HD 6000 (Southern Islands). Recall, these boosters are not yet available officially, and just yesterday we reported that representatives of this line will be the name of islands in the Caribbean. And now one of the Chinese forum started testing results Video AMD Radeon HD 6780. This high-quality adapter based on a single GPU. 3DMark Vantage test gave a result for him in the 11 963 points, which is much larger than the previous leader of the "single-chip, graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480, gained less than 9000 points.

Company Biostar MicroTech presented motherboard Biostar A880G. It is based on chipset AMD 880G/SB710 with AMD socket AM3 (supported chips AMD Athlon II, Phenom II, Sempron) and implemented in the form factor Micro ATX. Graphics in this motherboard integrated - ATI Radeon HD 4250, though, you can set and a discrete graphics card in the slot PCI Express x16 2.0, and then both graphics solutions can be used together in a mode Hybrid Crossfire.

At the start of the conference HOT CHIPS-22 Corporation AMD is going to reveal new details of two major modifications of the next generation of x86 processors, including its approach to the problem of high-performance multi-threaded computing, as well as design a processor with low power consumption - less than 1 W.

We have repeatedly told the news about so-called Fusion APU from the company AMD, representing boosters computing (Accelerated Processing Unit), where multi-core CPU and graphics engine are arranged in a single chip. One of the lines in a family of chips will be the Fusion APU Ontario, who can get from one to two cores, and will be created based on the architecture Bobcat Standards 40 nm process technology.

It seems that the efforts of Advanced Micro Devices to market DirectX 11 compatible graphics, begun last year with the release adapters series ATI Radeon HD 5800, are beginning to bear fruit. Anyway, in the second quarter of this year, AMD took the lead over their competitors from NVIDIA in the important category of graphics market as the supply of discrete graphics cards.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. developed a new thin and light notebook Samsung X125. This compact model with a diagonal of 11.6-inch display, whose resolution - 1366 x 768 pixels. Already, new product appeared on the British site Samsung, and online shop Amazon in the UK taking pre-orders for the laptop, its cost is 441 euros (according to another source - the price of 499 euros). Samsung X125 is built on the processor AMD Athlon II Neo K125 and uses graphics ATI Radeon HD 4225.

According to the resource Digitimes citing sources in the environment of notebook manufacturers, AMD is currently in negotiations with the corporation Renesas Electronics, formed as a result of the merger took place last spring NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology. The aim of these negotiations, as one might expect, is the licensing of high-speed USB 3.0 standard and its subsequent integration into future chipsets Southbridge AMD Hudson D1.

Continues to receive information about Fusion APU from the company AMD, which is expected to debut in late this year or early next year. These chips, which they call boosters computing (Accelerated Processing Unit), are solutions with a high degree of integration, where multi-core CPU and graphics engine are arranged in a single chip.

The second largest world producer of microprocessors, the company Advanced Micro Devices, seems to have begun shipping two new models. In any case, the chips AMD Phenom II X6 1035T and Athlon II X2 220 with six and two cores, respectively, have been reported on the European market.

Energy-efficient computers, such as HTPC and nettop systems become recently more and more popular. Indeed, their computing power is enough to solve basic problems, such as working with office documents, web browsing and playback of multimedia content, while the power consumption of PCs is much lower than standard desktops.