Neowin News Feed for: Bulldozer

Facebook apologizes for translation that resulted in arrest

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:18:01 +0000

Facebook has apologized, after a translation provided by its AI led Israeli police to arrest and question a Palestinian man, who they thought was about to launch an attack with his bulldozer. Read more...

Microsoft pulls Windows 7 update for AMD Bulldozer chip

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:31:02 +0000

Microsoft released, and later pulled, a hotfix update for Windows 7 for PCs that were running on AMD's Bulldozer processors. The hotfix was made to boost performance on PCs running the processor. Read more...

AMD launches first 16-core processor for servers

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:54:02 +0000

AMD has announced the launch of the Opteron 6200 processors, code named Interlagos, for the server market, becoming the first company to offer a PC processor with 16 cores on a single chip. Read more...

PC processor overclocking record broken yet again

John Callaham — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:20:49 +0000

The same person who broke the PC desktop processor overclocking record has done it once again, pushing up the clock speed of an AMD Bulldozer processor to 8.5848 GHz. Read more...

CPU overclocking record broken using AMD's Bulldozer, again

John Callaham — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:27:50 +0000

A new CPU overclocking world record, 8.46151 Ghz, has been set using the same AMD "Bulldozer" FX-8150 processor that was used to set the previous record earlier in 2011. Read more...

AMD shows better Bulldozer performance on Windows 8

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:21:24 +0000

A slide from processor maker AMD shows that the company is expecting better performance from PC games on its new Bulldozer eight core chip on Windows 8 than the current Windows 7 OS. Read more...

Techspot: AMD FX-8150 Reviewed - Bulldozer makes debut

Julio Franco — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:29:46 +0000

Today AMD is launching its new FX processors comprised of the flagship FX-8150 along with the FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4170 processors. Eight cores or not, AMD will keep working the value angle... Read more...

AMD Delays Bulldozer

James Woodfin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:48:08 +0000

Several signs point towards another delay in AMDs Bulldozer platform, at least for the desktop versions. Inside sources say that the processors will be delayed until Q4 2011. Read more...

Rumor: AMD to launch 10 core desktop CPU in 2012?

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:06:00 +0000

PC makers may not be selling as many desktops as they used to, thanks in part to higher sales of devices like smartphones and Apple's iPad. However that isn't stopping PC processor makers from developing... Read more...

Bulldozer prototype suggests AMD shooting for Sandy Bridge performance

James Woodfin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:03:52 +0000

AMD still has not launched its Bulldozer platform, but many are wondering what kind of performance the platform will have. Apparently, we now have an answer. Donanim Haber got hands on a recent engineering sample,... Read more...