http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080304/200 [...] .html?.v=1

Well, first I read the THG review for the new 780g chipset, which looks good. And then while reading another forum, someone posted that link over on extreme systems.

Ultimately sometimes I wonder what the state of things would be if AMD actually fully used the cross license they acquired from ATI and made Intel compatible chipsets. I bet there are some Intel fans that would like to have a 780g, or 790fx for their c2d's if they did it.

I certainly hope AMD gets it together again. I bought their stock while it was way down, lol. I actually do have faith they'll improve, and perhaps one day I'll buy an AMD again. But not today.

Its about time isn't it folks...

I mean how long has it taken for them to move forward...


Now AMD produce a decent processor... Doh......

is that why intel stock is down today? probably not, but if AMD can start hitting some launch dates, they may be making a comeback.

No, I doubt that AMD has finally gotten their act together. So they demo a few chips. Seems that I remember AMD doing something like that at Lake Tahoe with a a few handpicked Phenoms. Even then, the news people were highly limited in what they were allowed to do. And the release schedualed for the second half of 2008? When was the last time that AMD released a chip on schedual?

When I see these processors in the hands of Tom's Anandtech, etc, and read reviews that tell of good performance for a change, and see the chips advertised on Newegg, then I'll believe it. Until then, its just an AMD fantasy to me, and I prefer reality.

alot of what AMD showed at Cebit seems very promising, but only time will tell.

I agree. But seeing as how the entire series of chipsets so far was all ATI with AMD's logo on them, and yes hybri CF was part of ATI's plans as well, it may well be something good AMD can use from AIT.

Of course if so I will give ATI more credit than AMD as ATI's chipsets normally turned out quite nice and they worked hard on it.

It's not that they have their act together, after all the Phenom cpus still suck. They are just continuing their goal....mid/low level computers. Basically the majority of the sells. It is good news for standard NON-gamers, but bad for gamers and high end users.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

AMD certainly hasn't hit the ball out of the park, but the last two product introductions have been solid hits. Times are changing for the PC industry, I hope that AMD strategy follows these changes.

I should clarify that I was talking about the 45nm chips that were in the referred article in the original post. As for the chipsets, which are in the ATI division, they have been doing fairly well from what I have seen.

If they would release a phenom with a quad-channel memory controller then maybe integrated graphics would make more sense. They are going to have to find a way to vastly increase their memory bandwidth if fusion is going to be worth anything.

Seems to me that the new chipset is very good for AMD, it's not going to max out games at any resolution, but it will play them at low resolution and it does HD video, so it is a solid solution for an HTPC.

I believe this is the reason why people still regard AMD and AMD, and ATI as ATI. ATI's executions has been fairly well (except R600), and with competitive products.

AMD on the other side, has been delaying launches, shifting schedules, and launching uncompetitive products. Maybe they should've asked ex-ATI CEO David Orton to lead the company than Hector Ruiz.

Toms has a review of the 780 up now.


Looks VERY promising.


Couple this with Griffin and AMD may be on a bigtime winner in the laptop market with the Puma platform.

AMD hit the ball outa the park many times. It's just people like you who either refuse to admit it or maybe you are unaware.

The Barcelona sold out in 3 days at newegg.com

Some reported that they are over clocking it to 4.7Ghz. (liquid)

One problem: Most people only recognize Centrino...

It doesn't carry much cred here unless the laptop is a second or third or nth system as the graphics in the notebooks branded as Centrino suck. Even as far as IGPs go, the latest-and-greatest X3100 is at the bottom of the pack compared to the Radeon x1270 and GeForece 7150M.

Plus, most of us are desktop guys anyway and I haven't heard squat basically anywhere about VPro or VIIV for desktops. I've probably heard more people talk about AMD's Spider platform than any Intel desktop platform to tell the truth.

Review of the 790G, vs Intel G35 at Techreport.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14261

AMD/ATI finally on the radar (too bad it isn't for a CPU tho)