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However a cheaper model will definitely provide a marketing edge. The ATI Raedon HD 5670 uses 61W maximum and 14W when it is idle. This system is offered complete with Eyefinity Multiple-Monitor Capability (Maximum 4 but 3 at start).

AMD has clear understanding of market demand for DirectX 11 capable graphics cards. Quite recently AMD sold its two millionth DirectX 11 graphics chip and intend to celebrate the occasion. The PC market louds AMD enabled DirectX 11 support, comments Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager AMD Graphics Group.

AMD has become a top game player by launching many series in the software infrastructure. They have proved the innovative expertise in graphics as nobody has done in the magnitude and quantum presented by AMD. The series successfully launched are:

ATI Radeon HD 5970, ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700.

The graphic quality world, world popular products that are being used and appreciated by customers of all classes are the unmatched ATI Eyefinity technology and ATI Stream technology. These are serving literally millions of customers throughout the world.

620 gigaflops

The card boasts are capable to compute power to the tune of 620 gigaflops, has a core clock speed 775 MHz and has 400 stream processors, as claimed.

The Headlines are turning to the most preferred DirectX 11 capability by gamers who will explore the cheaper option and take full advantage of the DX 11 capacity of Windows 7 PCs.

The nearest competitors in the market NVIDIA are yet to describe their DX11 card version.

AMD is also launching ATI Radeon HD 5500 and HD 5400 series soon. These are described as HD 5500 – a low profile graphic card for small form-factor PCs and media centres, bringing  DX11 support, Eyefinity support for 3 monitors, HDMI 1.3a and Dolby and DTS support.

Basically, Intel and AMD are considered to be the prime rivals, but recent news show that a Japanese brand has not only broken the previous Intel record of world’s fastest clocked CPU, but has reduced it to nothing.

The company that has accomplished this success is called Fujitsu. It is maker of various electronics as well as a developer of microprocessors.

It is an eight core SPARC64 VIIIfx Venus CPU that has been clocked at a marvelous speed of 128 billion computations per second. This speed has abolished the previously existing record of Intel by a factor of 2.5. This awesomely speedy processor belongs to the tiny family, and this is another reason that gives a feel of competition to the rivals.

Not only is it smaller, but its energy efficiency is much more than the forerunners. It is based on 45nm circuitry that explains a lot about how it broke the Intel record, as Intel’s record holder (dual core Itanium 2) was based on 90nm circuitry.

To maintain the balance between this rivalry, Intel has also shown interest n utilizing 45nm chip for their subsequent Itanium. The record holder Venus chip uses only 33% of what Itanium 2 uses that amounts to about 35W. Fujitsu has not given any time frame in which this super computing chip will be available, neither is it known that which brand will be encasing Venus.

Source: Tech Radar

AMD states that it prefers to look to machines like the MacBook Air for inspiration instead of griping the field already dominated by tiny PCs like Asus’s Eee PC line-up that has been powered by Intel Atom chips.

AMD’s CEO, Dirk Meyer says: “We are thinking about PC form factors and somewhat ignoring the netbook phenomenon right now.

Meyer’s colleague Bahr Mahony, who is a laptop-specialist, says: “A fairly large number of people are not contended with the experience they have on these mininotebook platforms.”

The recent reports about unsatisfied customers returning netbooks in a large numbers explain about the need to plan ahead and target the market for machines that have appealing prices with a decent level of computing power.

The MacBook Air is a nice example in this connection, as it relied on integrated Intel graphics at first iteration, whereas in the second a significantly powerful Nvidia powerful option was introduced to better serve Apple’s customers.

But, instead of building such boutique-style computers housing new AMD chips, sellers like to have a non-Intel route to target the middle ground at a price quite comparable to the pricy of the netbooks.