A new video making the virual rounds shows the Nokia Lumia 900 not only getting hit with a hammer and nail on its screen but also being used as a hammer on a nail. More...

OPTERON OPTIMISTS are about to have their hopes dashed. Many industry watchers had thought that Microsoft was merely being cautious when the 64bit version of Windows Server 2003 only claimed support for Itanium. It seems... More...

Here are all the details that we know about these Nvidia chipsets for the Hammer that we knows so far. There will be one IGP version with a graphic chip on GPU codenamed... More...

WHEN CPUS start appearing using 90 nanometer technology, it gives the chip companies a lot more transistors to play with. So we presume that is why AMD, in a white paper on its web site... More...

Thanks username...The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set brings both accelerated 2D functionality and high performance OpenGL support to Linux x86 with the use of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). These drivers provide optimized... More...

Yep. Thanks to Tony Fernando for mailing us with this story. AMD will introduce its Hammer architecture in March/April next year, its chief financial officer said at the Credit Suisse FB Tech... More...

AMD ISN'T doing so well. It's losing money and having to lay off staff. One of the questions that keeps cropping up is, "why don't AMD release the Hammer now in the hope of pushing... More...

Thanks to username for posting this in BPN At Comdex, AMD today announced it has selected "AMD Athlon 64" as the brand name for its next-generation processor for desktop and mobile PCs,... More...

THE SLIDES presented at the AMD Developer Symposium held in October this year have now been placed on the AMD site. These are largely indepth presentations – the list includes IBM DB2 Universal Database for... More...

THE LATEST VIA ROADMAPS indicate that the company is pressing ahead with its AMD and Intel chipsets. The firm will introduce the KM400, which includes an integrated "Castlerock" GFX (graphics) core, and preliminary benchmarks show... More...

It's tempting to include AMD among Gartner Dataquest chief analyst Garry Smith's chip industry "familiar names" who won't be here in six years' time. Smith's comments were reported this week in a Silicon Strategies report.... More...

A REPORT ON Digitimes quotes INQ t-shirt wearer Richard Heye as saying yes, the processor will hit the streets in Q1 of next year. That's because it still appears to be tweaking the verification of... More...

Seems sister sledge aint working to well - guess we'll just have to use Intels inferior chips :D. "Advanced Micro Devices has pushed out the release of its highly anticipated Hammer chip for... More...

Red Hat Software will bring out a version of its server software for the Hammer processor family from Advanced Micro Devices, as momentum for the chip builds. Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat, the... More...

Amd says the integrated memory controller on its forthcoming Hammer chips can be turned off, allowing the chips to use the controller of its accompanying chipset if necessary. Thus, inital chip shipments will work with... More...

Advanced Micro Devices says Opteron, its forthcoming rival to Intel's Itanium 2 chip, is already catching on in the PC industry. AMD, which will introduce the processor early next year, demonstrated on... More...

Thanks to Heinrich-X from our BPN Forum WE'RE BEGINNING to hear whispers that just like AMD and Nvidia had their "snap" alliance last year, they are working together on something special for... More...

We asked yesterday "Should AMD retain the Hammer CPU name?" Out of 5319 voters, 4434 said "yes", 392 said "no", and 493 said "Doesn't matter, fanboy". That means there's more "doesn't matter fanboys"... More...

At the end of this year we'll see AMD's Clawhammer and next year Sledgehammer – we saw the introductions at IDF-time and of course at CeBIT more recently. This new technology that AMD... More...

ANYONE WHO DOUBTS that plans for the release of AMD's Hammer are not far advanced need look no further than a release from SUSE Labs. The labs said that 2.4.19pre4 based X86-64 linux kernel snapshot... More...

There's some reasonably detailed snippets about AMD's plans up at AMD Zone, suggesting that the firm could well get its Clawhammer processor out in October, and saying that Barton is likely to be shelved. ... More...

Hammer? gunna get hammered? who knows- but it does look pretty cool. Check it out! As you've undoubtedly heard, AMD has announced that they have a working version of their... More...

Advanced Micro Devices provided the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Hammer chip Tuesday. The company hopes to use the chip to challenge Intel on desktops and in servers. At meetings in San Francisco,... More...

AMD EXEC Ben Anixter presented some information about how his company is doing with its process technology this year and next, and said the firm has now successfully produced Hammer silicon. AMD is pleased with... More...

We have beleived and have written for maybe two years that Intel is tirelessly working on its own version of X86-64 technology just in case two awful things happen - sales of its Itanic processor... More...

AMD'S analyst conference today revealed the extent to which the company believes its 64-bit "Hammer" architecture will benefit it next year. AMD luminaries on the stage included Jerry Sanders III+, Athlon and Hammer chip architect... More...

Chip firm AMD introduced hard details of its Hammer 64-bit family at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose yesterday and early indications are this one's a winner. The architecture Dirk Meyer and his team has... More...