Category Archives: AMD

AMD Game! launched today, and we ignored it because it looked dull. Thankfully, though, Joystiq’s done lots of work speaking to AMD so we don’t have to. In a nutshell, if you want to buy PC that runs games, look for a Game! sticker. We assume the amazingly annoying exclamation mark is accompanied by the word “game” rising and a widening of the eyes. Game!

According to the San Jose Mercury News, a group of major PC gaming firms – namely Intel, Microsoft, nVidia and AMD, as well as “a number of computer companies – is going to announce “a consortium dubbed the PC Gaming Alliance” at GDC.

The group is being set up, apparently, in the face of the fact that console gaming has “stolen the excitement”, the point of the venture being to keep “PC gaming alive”.

There’s no detail on how they’re actually going to do it, but this is heartening nonetheless. Go PC gaming.

AMD’s will show its upcoming Phenom CPUs (currently showing less than monster (rumoured) benchmarks) at CeBit 2008, so say company sources here.

“Due to the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) bug, AMD has postponed the launch of its upcoming quad-core Phenom 9700 CPU to the second quarter of 2008, however the company is planning to showcase the CPU at CeBIT 2008 in March along with 9900 and 9100e models, according to sources at motherboard makers.”

CeBit is Germany’s gigantic annual computer fair, to be held this year in Hannover on from March 4-9.