AMD assuntos gerais

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD and Dell Support Bioinformatics Studies at University of Warsaw in Poland (http://www.techpowerup.com/214008/amd-and-dell-support-bioinformatics-studies-at-university-of-warsaw-in-poland.html)

AMD today unveiled innovation in heterogeneous high performance computing (HPC) by delivering more than 1.5 petaFLOPS of AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU performance for the Next Generation Sequencing Centre (NGSC) at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw in support of bioinformatics research related to next generation sequencing (NGS) studies. The new ORION cluster features 150 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers with two AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs, for a total GPU peak of 1.52 petaFLOPS single precision and 0.76 petaFLOPS double precision performance. The energy-efficient cluster enables high speed and efficient calculations for genomic data, applicable to a range of genomics and bioinformatics studies, using a fast and power efficient OpenCL implementation for research applications.

"We're committed to building our HPC leadership position in the industry as a foremost provider of computing applications, tools and technologies," said Sean Burke, corporate vice-president and general manager, AMD Professional Graphics. "This installation reaffirms AMD's leading role in HPC with the implementation of the AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs in this 1.5 petaFLOPS supercomputer cluster. AMD and Dell are enabling OpenCL applications for critical science research usage for this cluster. AMD is proud to collaborate with Dell and NGSC to support such important life science and computer science research."http://tpucdn.com/img/15-07-02/16a_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/15-07-02/16a.jpg)

"We had excellent cooperation with Dell and AMD to make this project happen in such a short timeframe," said Dr. Krzysztof Ginalski, head of the Next Generation Sequencing Centre and Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. "The state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading systems management capabilities in the Dell PowerEdge R730 servers along with the AMD FirePro S9150 server graphics deliver an extremely powerful basis for the ORION cluster and provide the compute capabilities we need for our research. The large 16GB of memory of the AMD FirePro S9150 server graphics allows us to run advanced bioinformatics computations on one GPU without inter-GPU communication resulting in very efficient operations. We have chosen a multi-GPU approach with two GPU boards per server to enable cost- and energy-efficient configuration."

"Dell is passionate about the HPC market and committed to powering the revolutionary discoveries being made by top research organizations and enterprise around the world," said Ravi Pendekanti, vice president, product management, Dell Server Solutions. "Together, Dell and AMD have reached a new level with the NGSC project, revealing the true power of the Dell PowerEdge R730 with AMD FirePro S9150 GPUs. There is no doubt that our joint NGSC project delivers top-tier performance for critical HPC applications, while also providing major energy efficiencies."

"We are proud that we had opportunity to build this HPC cluster for NGSC," said Michał Bieńkowski, chief executive officer at Slash sp. z o. o. "Our strong cooperation with Dell and AMD gave us the ability to deliver an effective solution in a very short time. We entered the HPC market several years ago offering high performance solutions in Poland's education field. Our goal is to build fast, reliable and energy-saving data center systems."

NGSC at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, located in Warsaw, Poland, is a research facility for top-of-the-line genomics and bioinformatics studies in biology, medicine, diagnostics and therapy. The ORION cluster was designed and built for storing and processing of huge amount of data generated by the sequencers available in the Centre. NGSC conducts a variety of genomics projects in numerous collaborations by providing NGS technology to academia and industry. Researches from around the world are using this facility to perform NGS (e.g. genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic, epigenetic) experiments that help them make fascinating research discoveries. Many of bioinformatics studies conducted at NGSC require large computational power, which is delivered by the ORION cluster.

Noticia:
http://www.techpowerup.com/214008/amd-and-dell-support-bioinformatics-studies-at-university-of-warsaw-in-poland.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD: Virtual reality could mean rebirth for PC industry (http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/amd-virtual-reality-could-mean-rebirth-for-pc-industry/)


Sales of personal computers have been stagnating for a couple of years now for various reasons. Many industry executives and market observers believe that to revive the PC market, new programs that demand more resources than contemporary computers can provide are needed. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices, believes that virtual reality could be such technology.
“There’s really what I think will be a rebirth of the PC industry and that is around virtual reality,” said Mr. Papermaster at the at Pacific Crest annual global technology leadership forum, reports Tech Trader Daily (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2015/08/10/whats-up-with-amd-3/). “You have to experience it to understand what virtual reality means. If you have ever put on one of the newer headmount displays, you’ll see it’s going to be a new category and it needs PC-class compute and graphics to have that wonderful experience. If you underpower it, it’s not a great experience.”
Initially virtual reality headsets and software will be aimed at gamers, which means that the market of VR-equipped systems will be a subset of the gaming PC market. Different industry observers express different expectations regarding sales of VR gear in 2016 – 2017. Some claim that Oculus VR, HTC and other suppliers of VR headsets will sell four to five million devices next year, but some believe that shipments of such products will hit 14 million units or even higher.
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AMD hopes that gamers, who will buy virtual reality headsets will also acquire high-end graphics cards, which means additional revenue and profits for the company. However, nobody knows for sure, how many VR devices will be sold in 2016 – 2017 and what impact they will have on the market.
It is possible that virtual reality headsets will evolve rather quickly because today’s solutions hardly provide very immersive experience. If companies like Oculus Rift as well as game developers release radically better hardware and software every year within the next decade, they will catalyze gamers to upgrade their PCs frequently, which is a good news for AMD. However, it is unclear how significantly the evolution of VR hardware will help Advanced Micro Devices, who has been losing market share for years now.



Noticia:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/amd-virtual-reality-could-mean-rebirth-for-pc-industry/


Não estou a ver a AMD ter razão nesta afirmação, não estou a ver os gamers num futuro proximo andarem a comprar capacetes e oculos de realidade virtual para jogar, acho que o verdadeiro gamer vai sempre preferir uma imersão de jogo num bom PC com um bom monitor e com um bom sistema de som do que essa mesma imersão com um par de oculos agarrados à cabeça.

[Jorge-Vieira]

CodeXL 1.8 Release Loaded With Features (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/25/codexl_18_release_loaded_features)

AMD sends word that its new CodeXL 1.8 release (http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2015/08/20/amd-codexl-1-8-released/) is loaded with new features, including Windows 10 support. Not sure what CodeXL is? This video should get you up to speed:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep--ly-g0XU





AMD CodeXL is a comprehensive tool suite that enables developers to harness the benefits of AMD CPUs, GPUs and APUs. It includes powerful GPU debugging, comprehensive GPU and CPU profiling, static OpenCL™, OpenGL® and DirectX® kernel/shader analysis capabilities, and APU/CPU/GPU power profiling, enhancing accessibility for software developers to enter the era of heterogeneous computing. AMD CodeXL is available both as a Visual Studio® extension and a standalone user interface application for Windows® and Linux®.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/25/codexl_18_release_loaded_features#.VdybG5f0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Unveils Highly Efficient Broadcast Ecosystem Workflows (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/04/amd_unveils_highly_efficient_broadcast_ecosystem_w orkflows/)


AMD today announced (http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unveils-highly-2015sept03.aspx) industry leaders AJA, Adobe, Avid, Blackmagic Design, The Foundry and The Pixel Farm will demonstrate highly efficient workflows with deep AMD FirePro™ professional graphics integration at the AMD Showcase at IBC 2015. The AMD Showcase exhibiting the broadcast media ecosystem will be available for attendees in Hall 7 Stand H35 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

The AMD exhibit will feature innovative broadcast and post production workflows including: AJA capture station in an ingest workflow; Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC, part of Adobe Creative Cloud®, and Avid® Media Composer® with AMD FirePro GPU acceleration for nonlinear editing workflows; OpenCL™-accelerated compositing solutions with The Foundry and The Pixel Farm; and multiple AMD FirePro GPUs powering the industry standard color grading tool DaVinci Resolve with Blackmagic Design.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/04/amd_unveils_highly_efficient_broadcast_ecosystem_w orkflows#.VemnMJf0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Announces New Multiuser GPU Platform

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With the increasing trend of thin clients and lower-powered user machines, the cloud and virtual machines are taking on an ever more important role. In order to supply users with graphics and compute power even when they are using thin clients, Nvidia introduced their GRID hardware virtualization and cloud gaming service. Now AMD is jumping into the game with their own Multiuser GPU (http://www.amd.com/Documents/Multiuser-GPU-Datasheet.pdf) solution.
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For now, it looks like AMD is focusing on the hardware virtualization side of things. With the top end card, AMD is allowing up to 15 users per card. This means the GPU is being shared between up to 15 users. Of course, this is for lighter loads, with heavier loads requiring fewer and fewer simultaneous users. Virtualization will also be done on a hardware level, with users being able to access most of the usual features with OpenCL, OpenGL and DirectX acceleration.
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AMD’s announcement comes as Nvidia is also refreshing their platform with GRID 2.0. With Nvidia having already carved out their turf, it will be interesting to see how AMD will attempt to move in. Good news for AMD is that it appears that some FirePro cards will support Multiuser while GRID 2.0 requires different cards. This means for FirePro users, it may be an easy switch to enable multiple users. With true hardware virtualization support though, AMD may be able to snag some much needed marketshare before the market gets saturated.



Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-announces-new-multiuser-gpu-platform/

[Jorge-Vieira]

Darren Grasby is EMEA AMD President

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Stepping up
AMD has decided that its Corporate Vice President Worldwide Component Channel manager Darren Grasby needs a promotion. Grasby is now President of EMEA AMD which is a promotion even if the job title is not as long..

Grasby has been with AMD for a while and the company decided to tap him on the shoulder to run its EMEA business. This is rather important role because its market segmentation makes it one of the more challenging.
Dr. Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer at AMD said:

“EMEA is a key region with a broad set of important customers, partners and markets for AMD. Darren is a proven leader who is ideally suited to drive deeper customer, partner, and stakeholder relationships across EMEA as a part of helping AMD accomplish our long-term business goals. Over the past eight years Darren has proven to be an effective and results-driven leader. This new role will allow him to broaden his influence and reach in supporting AMD’s customers, partners and employees while also promoting and enhancing our regional reputation and prominence as an innovative technology pioneer.” AMD hasn’t had many killer products in the last few years. It still has a few things to offer in the GPU side of the business but Carrizo was less of a success than the company hoped.
AMD has pinned all hopes on a Holy Grail product codenamed ZEN but the company is still rather far away from being selling it. It will take a few more tough quarters before it really gets better but we wish Grasby a lot of luck in his new job.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39174-darren-grasby-is-now-president-of-emea-amd

[Jorge-Vieira]

Lawsuit alleges AMD misled buyers on Bulldozer core count

AMD's Bulldozer CPU architecture has had a troubled history. Thanks to its unusual design, the company's top-end CPUs had difficulty competing with Intel's latest and greatest—and its troubles may not be over yet. Legal News Wire reports that a class-action lawsuit (http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510646458-amd-faces-suit-over-alleged-misrepresentation-of-new-cpu) has been filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California's San Jose division, alleging that AMD falsely advertised those CPUs as having more cores than they actually do.
The heart of the matter is the Bulldozer architecture (http://techreport.com/review/21813/amd-fx-8150-bulldozer-processor/2) itself. Bulldozer modules combine two integer cores with a single floating-point unit and a dedicated cache module. Multiple modules are then combined to form the CPU. According to Tony Dickey, who filed the suit on behalf of himself and other affected users, the integer cores can't operate independently. Therefore, the suit alleges, the CPUs suffer from "material performance degradation" and cannot process eight instructions simultaneously.
Dickey's suit says the average consumer doesn't have the technical expertise to understand AMD's CPU architecture and the company didn't convey accurate specifications. Because of this knowledge gap, the suit alleges the company tricked "tens of thousands of consumers" into buying CPUs that can't perform like a "true eight-core" processor could.
The suit accuses AMD of violating two California laws and a whole host of other counts, including "false advertising, fraud, breach of express warrant, negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment." He's suing for statutory and punitive damages, pre- and post-judgment interest, and other relief as the court deems necessary.



Noticia:
http://techreport.com/news/29289/lawsuit-alleges-amd-misled-buyers-on-bulldozer-core-count


Mais problemas para a AMD...

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Issues Official Statement Regarding Bulldozer Core Count Suit


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Overnight we received an official statement from AMD about the class action lawsuit filed against the chip maker alleging the company engaged in fraud and deceptive marketing when it claimed that Bulldozer processors had eight cores.

“We believe our marketing accurately reflects the capabilities of the “Bulldozer” architecture which, when implemented in an 8 core AMD FX processor is capable of running 8 instructions concurrently.” – AMD
News about the suit (Dickey v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc (http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-sued-for-bulldozer-cpu-core-count_175017)) broke last week and it appears that the suit alleges that Bulldozer only truly has four cores instead of eight since the cores share certain resources and can’t run eight instructions simultaneously. Extreme Tech published an in-depth look at how Bulldozer works way back in 2011 (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/100583-analyzing-bulldozers-scaling-single-thread-performance) and found that the additional cores improved performance and were able to handle more than four instructions simultaneously. It will be interesting to see how this one turns out!




Noticia:
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-issues-official-statement-regarding-bulldozer-core-count-suit_175136#pKH1rzIxYW1U5H86.99

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Promotes Ruth Cotter And ​Robert Gama (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/11/amd_promotes_ruth_cotter_8203robert_gama/)

AMD today announced (http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/ruth-cotter-2015nov11.aspx) the promotion of Ruth Cotter (44) to senior vice president of Human Resources, Corporate Communications, and Investor Relations reporting to President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. In this expanded role, Cotter is responsible for overseeing all aspects of these three corporate functions and driving cross-functional alignment to help the company achieve its business objectives. Further building out the HR leadership team, Robert Gama (42) will take on additional responsibility driving AMD's HR strategy, operations, and execution as chief talent officer, reporting to Cotter.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/11/amd_promotes_ruth_cotter_8203robert_gama#.VkNbk79v 708

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD takes small percent of GPU share back

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Slow recovery
AMD managed to take a tiny part of the discrete market share back from Nvidia.

Last quarter Nvidia held 81.9 percent of the market while AMD had 18.0 percent. This quarter AMD increased its market share by 0.8 percent to 18.8 leaving Nvidia down by just as much.
In Q3 last year AMD had 28.4 percent of the market and Nvidia had 71.5 percent. This indicates that AMD lost heavily to Nvidia in the least year. This is not something that we didn’t already know and some internal sources blame the lack of competition in the performance and mainstream levels.
Jon Peddie Research JPR also said that the total AIB shipments decreased to 12.0 million units this quarter. The market is getting slower. With introduction of Fury and R9 300 parts AMD's quarter-to-quarter total desktop AIB unit shipments increased 33.3%.Nvidia's quarter-to-quarter unit shipments increased 26.4%.

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The change from year to year decreased by 3.8% compared to last year. This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is another trend that leads to a higher average selling price as most of people who are buying discrete GPUs are playing on them. The super low end part of the market is dying and this has been happening for a few years now.


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Our sources within Add in Board partners have told Fudzilla that average selling prices of GPUs in 2015 have been the highest ever. The AIB discrete board market has decreased from 114 million units in 1999 at its peak. In 2013 65 million shipped. Most likely 2015 might be even smaller.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/39241-amd-takes-small-percent-of-gpu-share-back


Mesmo não sendo nada de extraordinário este ganho que a AMD teve, pode ser o início de um novo ciclo e de um novo rumo que a AMD proneteu há alguns das atrás.

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Joins Leading Businesses To Protect Climate (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/12/02/amd_joins_leading_businesses_to_protect_climate/)


AMD has joined (http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/protect-climate-2015dec01.aspx) the American Business Act on Climate Pledge in a coordination with US corporate climate leaders and the White House Office of Public Engagement. AMD along with the other participating business signatories have pledged their support for a positive, action-oriented outcome at the United Nations Climate Summit negotiations in Paris (Nov 30 - Dec 10), and have created forward-looking corporate goals to help improve climate protection.

In 2015, AMD reached several sustainability milestones. The company announced successful completion of five year environmental goals (2009-2014), achieving 24 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from non-manufacturing sites, 31 percent reduction in global energy use since 2009 and 32 percent reduction in transportation emissions.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/12/02/amd_joins_leading_businesses_to_protect_climate#.V l8Aq79v708

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD king of the Thin Clients

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Has half the market

It is not all bad in the AMD camp, apparently it controls half the chip market for thin clients.

For those who came in late, thin clients are quasi-intelligent terminals which draw most of their processing power from servers. At various times in IT history they have been touted as the next big thing and always disappointed. With the rise of the cloud, thin clients are again being touted as important again.
Now AMD has announced that it has achieved a number one market share position for thin clients based on its thin-client shipments.
According to its unit sales to thin client customers last year, AMD has more than half of that market, with 53 percent market share.
AMD has its Embedded G-Series which can offer reasonable graphics in single- or multi-display configurations in the enterprise.
Recent design wins with HP, Fujitsu, and Samsung validate that AMD APUs provide compelling value with horsepower for data movement, encryption/decryption of central server data, and even video encode/decode for video conferencing or multimedia streaming.
AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager Scott Aylor, said that AMD Embedded G-Series SoC couples high performance compute and graphics capability in a highly integrated low power design.

“These processors provide compelling performance per dollar per watt, strong security, sophisticated power management, and superior graphics performance. The product lineup includes an unparalleled range of pin- and software-compatible offerings, helping to address multiple needs of our customers.” He said that the surge of innovation in the desktop virtualization market has created new opportunities for powerful thin clients that are now capable of executing demanding tasks including computer-aided design and 3D modeling.
Customers are also using AMD thin client solutions in financial and government services, call centers, kiosks, and hospitals, “smart” monitors and other multi-user, virtualised installations, he said.
The AMD G-Series SoC also features enhanced security for enterprise IT operations, enabling security between the thin client and the server, and allowing only software approved by an enterprise’s IT organization to run on the thin client device. It also supports enhanced power management technology to help manage energy costs and environmental impact across large deployments.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/notebooks/39430-amd-king-of-the-thin-clients

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD: Xbox One and PS4 To See Record High Sales Next Year – Predicts End of Cycle for Current Gen Consoles by 2019
AMD is the provider of the APUS inside the consoles by both manufacturers and is one of the most knowledgeable entities in the supply chain. We previously revealed (http://wccftech.com/exclusive-next-generation-consoles-expected-2018-amd/) its plans to supply chips for next generation consoles and the company has now stated on more than one occasion that it expects the current generation consoles to have a life cycle till 2019. It has also stated that it expects 2016 to see more console sales as compared to 2015, something that should help boost revenue for the chip maker.
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AMD: Consoles to have even more sales next year, current cycle will probably end in 2019 Sales of the custom APU inside the Xbox One and PS4 make up a good chunk of AMD’s revenue, something investors are very much interested in. Fortunately, this means that we get to hear about AMD’s thoughts on the console roadmaps in investor and technology conferences. A few weeks back, we exclusively reported that AMD is preparing to supply chips for next generation consoles with 5x the performance per watt (http://wccftech.com/exclusive-next-generation-consoles-expected-2018-amd/) and increased focus on VR in 2018. This time-frame fits in perfectly with recent comments by company officials.
The Raymond James Technology Conference was recently held (on 8th December) and AMD’s CTO Devinder Kumar made some interesting comments regarding the life cycle of the consoles as well as the expected sales next year:

Yeah I think the launch of these products happened in 20 — late 2013. So if you count 2013 by ’13, ’14, ’15 we are about to enter ’16. If you go to the past years and look at — if you say it’s a seven year cycle then ’16 is kind of right in the middle there. And the thing to remember is based on the information that has been provided let’s take the play station game consoles, the ramp of this product and the performance of this and from an overall standpoint is the best compared to any prior generation of play station, right. So that’s obviously very helpful from a viewpoint of the ramp in the product happening and we see from where we sit right now the strength continuing into 2016 and that’s why I said earlier that we expect the units overall in the current generation of game consoles being higher in ’16 than in ’15. (Transcript: SeekingAlpha (http://seekingalpha.com/article/3741456-advanced-micro-devices-amd-at-raymond-james-technology-investors-conference-transcript?page=4))
Counting 2013, there area total of 7 years in the expected life span of the Xbox One and PS4. This means that once we transition to 2016, only 3 years remain before the new consoles arrive. It is worth noting that the cycle could end before this as well (as early as 2017) as noted by AMD’s CEO, Lisa Lu at the 18th Annual Credit Suisse Technology Conference:
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Yes, so I think the way to think about gaming is the game console cycle is usually anywhere from five to seven years or usually in the — on the longer side and this cycle has been really good. I think it’s been really good both, Sony and Microsoft have really marketed well through the value proposition.
The peak of game consoles are probably anywhere from the third to fourth year. We believe this year game console units are up relative to last year. From our visibility next year will be up relative to this year and it’s really about continuing to satisfy that amidst is higher for more gaming. So, I view it as a continued good market for AMD. (Transcript: SeekingAlpha (http://seekingalpha.com/article/3728976-advanced-micro-devices-amd-ceo-lisa-su-at-credit-suisse-19th-annual-technology-media-and-telecom-brokers-conference-transcript?part=single))
As we can see, according to AMD’s projections, console sales should peak out next year. It is also interesting to note that the company expects a traditional 7 year cycle for the current generation of consoles, even though the PC Gaming industry is getting increasingly powerful hardware, resulting in an ever-growing gap between between the consoles and an average gaming PC. That said, it is unlikely that we will see the cycle cut short since it would be contrary to the profit motive of both companies. It was originally thought that a PS4 with more powerful hardware was a possibility thanks to x86 hardware, since AMD does not have any plans (currently) to supply new chips to Sony, this remains unlikely as well.
A more energy efficient APU (and PS4 version), however, with the same approximate power could be on the table. Die shrinks and process maturity could result in a much more cooler and slimmer PS4, but will have approximately the same horsepower as the original. Naturally, the same holds true for Xbox One as well – although the company has not officially discussed any such plans so far. In any case, the next year should be a good year for console sales – and will probably constitute the heyday for this generation. That reminds me, the Xbox One (http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-500GB-Console-Ultimate-Bundle/dp/B0118GJKIW/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1449785927&sr=1-1&keywords=xbox+one) and PS4 bundles (http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-500GB-Console-Uncharted-Collection-4/dp/B016P6KIFY/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1449785902&sr=1-1&keywords=ps4) are back at their $299 pricing for Christmas over at Amazons folks.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/amd-year-sell-xbox-ps4s-confirms-cycle-current-gen-consoles-2019/#ixzz3u1PLB7sh


Ainda temos uns longos 3 anos pela frente com a actual geração (pobre) de consolas :faceplam:
Por outro lado, sendo a AMD a unica empresa que fornece APUs para as consolas, existe sempre aqui uma forte vertentente financeira que entra nos cofres da AMD.
(http://wccftech.com/amd-year-sell-xbox-ps4s-confirms-cycle-current-gen-consoles-2019/#ixzz3u1PLB7sh)

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Claims SYSmark Benchmark is Biased

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In the technology industry, reviewers rely on accredited benchmarks to easily distinguish between the latest hardware and provide scores which help quantify the difference in performance. Generally, the majority of respected websites, and YouTube channels opt for the same software. For example, 3DMark is an essential tool to gauge GPU performance at various resolutions. Companies tend to fixate on benchmark numbers because if gives the consumer a direct comparison between their product and the nearest competitors. Today, AMD released a scathing video about SYSmark and claims the benchmark is biased, and inaccurate.
During the video, John Hampton, director of computer client products and Tony Salinas, engineering manager at AMD, said “SYSmark does not use everyday real world workloads”. In the software, an Intel i5 CPU attained a score of 987, while a “comparable AMD platform powered by an FX processor” managed 659. This is a delta of 50%. In comparison, PC Mark 8 accelerated scores are 4199 on the Intel platform and 3908 on AMD, a difference of 7%. According to AMD, there’s an excessive amount of stress being placed on the CPU and doesn’t accurately measure other key system components. PC Mark 8 provides a more well-rounded indication of real world performance.


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To clarify this, AMD created a set of custom scripts and measured the start to end end time in the office suite and reached a time stamp. The Intel platform took 61 seconds to complete the task while the AMD system finished in 64 seconds. This is a delta of 6-7% which coincides with PC Mark 8’s accelerated results. Obviously, these are bold claims made by AMD and some might argue it’s just sour grapes for creating an inferior product. However, the data does suggest there’s a smaller gap than people might expect in real world scenarios. Despite this, SYSmark is recording the CPU’s performance so it’s bound to show a marked difference compared to a more general benchmark.
Do you feel AMD is right to criticize SYSmark’s benchmarking algorithm?



Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-claims-sysmark-benchmark-is-biased/


Quem fica com a razão?

[Enzo]

Possivelmente a AMD. Não é o primeiro bench que favorece os verdes.
Já agora, li e traduzi mal ou........desde quando 659 são 50% de 987???

[Jorge-Vieira]

Também tinha reparado nisso... não sei que contas fizeram!!!!

[Jorge-Vieira]

NVIDIA Loses a bit, AMD Gains a bit Discrete GPU Market Share in Q4 2015 – Radeon Share Now at 21.1%, NVIDIA Still Leads With 78.8% Share

NVIDIA and AMD GPU market shares for the fourth quarter of 2016 have been posted by Jon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com/publications/add-in-board-report). Just a few days ago, the publication posted the overall market shipments in the GPU business which saw a tiny 2.4% increase compared to the last quarter due to a sluggish PC market at the current moment and the other the fact that next-gen, FinFET based GPUs are on the verge of arrival hence in their anticipation, most users are holding off their purchases.
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Image Credits: Jon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com/publications/add-in-board-report) AMD and NVIDIA GPU Market Share Q4 2015 Results – Radeon Grows, GeForce Declines The discrete graphics market GPU includes two major vendors, AMD and NVIDIA. 2015 in general saw total of 50 million AIBs (Add in boards) being sold compared to 44 million in 2014. Out of the total 50 million AIBs sold, 5.9 million AIBs are reported to be enthusiast level products which represents $299 US+ graphics cards. Figure of 5.9 million enthusiast level cards is quite an astonishing increase from 2014 which reported only halve the sales of enthusiast level cards compared to 2015 (5.9 million vs 2.9 million). This clearly shows that the Gaming PCs market is moving rapidly towards high-end and enthusiast level cards which offer superb performance in AAA titles on the highest resolutions and settings possible.
Hardware such as the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X has really proved that price is not a matter for PC gamers if the hardware they use offers great gaming performance and the AAA titles leverage by using the new graphics features incorporated in the current and next generation of graphics cards. Regardless of the PC market, the PC Gaming and DIY market remains strong as ever which has led AMD and NVIDIA to see increased shipments even with current generation hardware that was introduced in early 2015. The holiday season deals (http://wccftech.com/nvidia-cuts-prices-900-serie/), price cuts and gaming bundles did really entice gamers to by GCN and Maxwell powered cards.
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AMD Market Share Rises to 21.1% in Q4 2015 From 18.8% in Previous Quarter Coming to the exact market share figures, Q4 2015 saw AMD gaining quite a bit market share compared to previous quarters. Their market share rose to 21.1% compared to 18.8% in the previous quarter which was mainly driven by aggressive price cuts on their Radeon R9 Fury and Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards (http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-x-nano-price-cuts/). Holiday season deals also made up for a good increase in their Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 user base.
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The desktop discrete Radeon graphics cards saw a 6.69% increase in shipments from previous quarter due to the highly competitive price cuts for their cards in the holiday season along with improved driver support in the form of Radeon Software Crimson drivers. AMD’s notebook discrete GPU shipments witnessed another major blow in Q4 as they didn’t introduce any new mobility Radeon graphics card for the platform leading to a 1.3% decline in shipments.
NVIDIA Loses Desktop Discrete Market Share in Q4 2015 – Share Declines To 78.8% But Still in Lead In the GPU shipment report (http://wccftech.com/gpu-market-share-q4-2015-nvidia-intel-amd/), NVIDIA’s shipments for discrete GPUs fell 7.56% compared to the Q3 2015. NVIDIA had captured a good chunk of discrete GPU market with their GPUs on the desktop front so their shipments are expected to fall as demand lowers. On the notebook side, NVIDIA launched a couple of new chips along with the industry’s fastest mobility GPU, the GeForce GTX 980. These new Maxwell powered chips led to the total notebook discrete GPU shipments to see a rise of 34.2%.
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NVIDIA’s market share peaked out in Q3 2015 by bagging 81.1% of the discrete / AIB market but it fell down to 78.8% in Q4 2015 since AMD managed to snatch away some of their share. It’s highly likely that users utilizing the older Kepler based cards which still amounts to a large NVIDIA user base upgraded to Radeon cards due to better price to performance ratio set by AMD. Overall, NVIDIA’s GPU shipments for Q4 2015 were reported 8.4% higher than the previous quarter.
Talking about the industry as a whole, the total AIBs shipments decreased 4.9% compared to previous quarter and 7.9% compared to previous year. In 2013, AIBs managed to ship a total of 65 million discrete graphics cards while the peak was reported back in 1999 when the industry shipped 114 million units. 50 million shipments is still a good figure considering that the industry has been stuck with an older (28nm) process for a while and the FinFET based solutions are being eyed at by gamers that will launch in mid of 2016. Expect both GPU makers (AMD and NVIDIA) to report vast increase in shipments later this year when Pascal and Polaris hit the market shelves in full swing.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-gpu-market-share-q4-2015/#ixzz41fRexh2l


Não é que seja muito, mas a AMD conseguiu subir uns pontos no share de GPUs.
(http://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-gpu-market-share-q4-2015/#ixzz41fRexh2l)

[MAXLD]

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Mas pouca diferença faz, o "vai ou racha" será mesmo daqui a uns meses.

[Enzo]

Tal e qual MAXLD.

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD Earnings Call Suggests New Consoles Are Coming in 2016

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Even though the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are less than three years old, there’s numerous reports (http://www.eteknix.com/playstation-4-5-details-emerge/) which indicates both console manufacturers could release refreshed models with a higher specification. This is unprecedented for the console industry as the usual business strategy revolves around long hardware lifecycles and encouraging developers to eke out every last inch of performance through optimization. Saying that, the situation in 2016 is quite different due to the rise of mobile and impressive profitability on the PC platform. Furthermore, the current consoles are technically outdated and struggle to maintain 30 frames-per-second at 1920×1080. There’s even been instances where the resolution has been reduced to 720P on the Xbox One which really does showcase the performance problems.
Arguably, Sony is creating a much more powerful version of the PlayStation 4 to coincide with the launch of PlayStation VR. Virtual reality requires a great deal of processing power and the current model will struggle to offer a pleasant user-experience. According to information acquired by Go Nintendo (http://www.gonintendo.com/stories/255312-amd-earnings-call-points-to-various-game-platforms-launching-in-2), AMD’s earning call predicts future hardware launches this year and reads:

“In our EESC segment, we had record shipments of our semi-custom SoCs powering the Playstation 4 and Xbox One game consoles,”
“Demand for game consoles looks strong for 2016 and we remain on track to generate additional revenue from new semi-custom business in the second half of 2016.
“Game consoles – we see units going up 2016 to 2015. We’ve also said in the enterprise embedded and semi-custom segment that we will be ramping some new design revenue in the second half of 2016. We have new products being introduced in both the businesses with the new design wins in the second half on the semi-custom side.”
It’s important to remember that this might not be a new Xbox or PlayStation 4, and could refer to Nintendo’s upcoming console, the NX. Whatever the case, I cannot wait to see the announcements during this year and look forward to testing new hardware. Also, if these reports are true, I’m eager to know how console players will react.



Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-new-ps4-and-xbox-one/


Isto só vem confirmar todos os rumores que têm saído nas ultimas semanas sobre possíveis novas consolas da Sony como da M$.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) Acquires Software Company ‘HiAlgo’ – Pushes Forward On Streamlining Software Side Of Gaming Technology

Radeon drivers have come a really long way from the mess they once used to be. There was a time when the company was known for its bad drivers; fast forward a few years, and we can now safely say the opposite. With the recent RTG philosophy trickling down to grass root levels we have seen AMD (NASDAQ: AMD (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd)) software reach a whole new dimension of polish and artisan-like characteristics in terms of the GUI and interface design. In what appears to be an attempt to take it to an even higher level, AMD has acquired HiAlgo (http://www.hialgo.com/), a software house which will synergize with its existing RTG philosophy and work on the software side of things.
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AMD buys HiAlgo software house – increases focus on the software side of a gaming experience Not much is known about what AMD plans to do in the long run but this is very clearly a statement of fact that the company is taking software very seriously. We also, at this point in time, do not know the exact details of the deal and how much the company paid to acquire HiAlgo (http://www.hialgo.com/). It has recently launched the WattMan app and the crimson drivers speak for themselves. AMD is aiming to not only be an independent hardware vendor (IHV) but also a software house that will compliment its Radeon brand with software features exclusive for its customers.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) Shares Drop 8% With Sharp Increase In Traded Volume



(http://wccftech.com/amd-nasdaq-shares-drop-8-percent-increase-traded-volume/)
The following is the official press release form AMD (NASDAQ: AMD (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd)):

AMD (http://www.amd.com/) (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the acquisition of software company HiAlgo Inc., a developer of unique PC gaming technologies designed to help Radeon™ RX Series GPUs transform gaming experience, increase GPU efficiency and improve the overall consistency of gaming experiences. The acquisition lays the groundwork for future gaming innovation in Radeon Software that will benefit owners of Radeon™ RX Series GPUs.
“Software is an integral part of advancing the science of graphics, enabling us to best harness the silicon of the GPU to
maximize performance and deliver outstanding experiences in games and applications,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. “HiAlgo embodies our spirit of passion, persistence and play by delivering a number of creative approaches to software that improve gamers’ experiences, and helps future-proof1 the GPU.”
Radeon Software enables the ultimate in performance, features and stability of Radeon™ graphics to ensure an exceptional user experience. Today, launching alongside the Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card are nine new features of Radeon Software Crimson Edition designed to give users more control over their computing experience, including multi-GPU, display, and power efficiency settings, and a redefined overclocking tool in Radeon WattMan.2
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Forward looking commentary: AMD (NASDAQ: AMD (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd)) has been pretty active in the corporate side of things lately, this acquisition comes just a few months after their they announced their joint venture with the Chinese company THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co., Ltd.) which shows that the company is making several attempts to broaden its portfolio and turn the company around once and for all. AMD licensed high-performance processor and SoC technology to a newly-created JV it has formed with THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co., Ltd.) to develop SoCs tailored to the Chinese server market that will complement AMD’s own offerings. The $293 million licensing agreement is a meaningful step in AMD’s IP monetization strategy intended to accelerate the Company’s growth and better monetize its valuable assets.

“Our new licensing agreement is a great example of leveraging our strong IP portfolio to accelerate the adoption of our technologies more broadly,” said Dr. Su. “The joint venture with THATIC provides AMD with a differentiated approach to help gain share in the fastest growing region of the server market.”
One caveat in this is the fact that payments will be dependent on certain milestones being achieved. Things have started to look good for AMD (NASDAQ: AMD (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd)) this year and the stock price has reflected this in the past few months. The introduction of Zen will however, be the first test the company must pass. Everything depends on the good reception of Zen, the silicon valley giant has too much invested in it for it not to succeed. Of course, AMD is currently under a mountain of debt (total debt at the end of the quarter was over $2 billion, flat from the prior quarter) with a hefty chunk of that due in 2019 as you can see below so it still has a long way to go before it is out of treacherous waters.
http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AMD-Debt-Structure-635x617.jpg (http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AMD-Debt-Structure.jpg)AMD’s current debt structure…

AMD recently released the RX 480 as well and while that wasn’t able to offer any competition to FinFET products from Nvidia it was supposed to target a new price point for mainstream gaming. Interestingly however, Nividia has decided to push forward their GTX 1060 GPU which will compete directly with the RX 480 in its category – competing for the price point that was supposed to be AMD’s jewel in the crown. Another thorn in an otherwise perfect launch is allegations of the RX 480 failing to meet PCI-E specifications. We will be covering this particular incident in a separate post later today.









Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/amd-aquires-hialgo-wip/#ixzz4DABRZfBZ


Mais uma compra que mostra ou pretende mostrar o rumo que a AMD/RTG pretende dar no seguemento dos GPUs.
(http://wccftech.com/amd-aquires-hialgo-wip/#ixzz4DABRZfBZ)

[Jorge-Vieira]

AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su Bestowed with GSA Exemplary Leadership Award (https://www.techpowerup.com/249468/amd-president-and-ceo-dr-lisa-su-bestowed-with-gsa-exemplary-leadership-award)

Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) will honor industry visionary and innovator Dr. Lisa Su, President and CEO, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), with the prestigious Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award at its highly-anticipated Annual Awards Dinner to be held in Santa Clara, California, on December 6, 2018.

Established in 1999, the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions, exemplifying how their vision and global leadership have transformed and elevated the entire semiconductor industry. The selection of Dr. Su is based on her ongoing technological contributions, exceptional business acumen, status as a positive and inspiring role model, and wide ranging respect among the technology industry and business community.https://www.techpowerup.com/img/wcoNGJIZervWJWGM_thm.jpg (https://www.techpowerup.com/img/wcoNGJIZervWJWGM.jpg)
"Lisa is the epitome of what this Award is all about," said Jodi Shelton, co-founder and president of GSA. "She is admired by those who have worked for her, as well as her partners and customers. It takes one-in-a-million to become a great leader and CEO, but to establish yourself as one of this industry's best and brightest shows great tenacity. And she has really only just begun - we feel that she will be a long-term visionary for our industry."

Dr. Lisa Su is AMD president and chief executive officer and serves on the company's board of directors. Previously, Dr. Su held executive leadership and engineering positions with Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. She joined AMD in 2012 as senior vice president and general manager of Global Business Units responsible for integrating AMD's business units, sales, global operations and infrastructure enablement teams into a single market-facing organization. She was promoted to CEO in 2014 to drive the company's transformation into a high-performance computing leader. Under her leadership, AMD's market cap has increased almost tenfold as the company introduced two completely new chip architectures and more than ten different product families, and is now poised to introduce the industry's first high-performance 7nm graphics processing unit (GPU) and central processing unit (CPU) architectures beginning later this year.

Dr. Aart de Geus, Chairman and Co-CEO of industry software giant Synopsys, described Dr. Su as "a leader who approaches issues factually, is open for input, is systematic and measured in her approach and, above all, inspires trust in relationships, as there are no hidden agendas, and she is forthright in her communication. Lisa Su is a key contributor and positive role model in an industry that is continuously operating at the leading edge of technology and utterly challenging in business execution."

Dr. Su has bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has published more than 40 technical articles, has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering and named one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune Magazine. She serves on the Board of Directors for Analog Devices, the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

Noticia:
https://www.techpowerup.com/249468/amd-president-and-ceo-dr-lisa-su-bestowed-with-gsa-exemplary-leadership-award


Mais um premio que distingue o caminho de mudança que a Sr. Su fez na AMD desde que é CEO, mesmo não sendo um caminho sempre com sucessos é, um caminho que merece este premio.