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• AMD supports 5K video with new Radeon WX GPUs

  AMD's Radeon Pro WX graphics cards will drive content creation for games and VR.

• AMD's Vega GPUs will start shipping in the first half of 2017

  AMD has been tight-lipped about its upcoming GPUs code-named Vega, but here's one key detail: they will start rolling out in the first half of 2017.

• AMD's new FirePro S9300 X2 is its latest monster GPU

  AMD is releasing one monster graphics card after another as the GPU speed battle with Nvidia heats up.

• 5 more PC upgrade mistakes (and how to avoid them)

  As PCs get more powerful and easier to use, the challenges involved with upgrading them have remained about the same. For the novice, a hard drive upgrade can appear downright daunting. For more experienced tinkerers, the upgrade itself may be easy, but it's easier still to overlook factors that could streamline the whole process and better protect both the hardware and the data stored on it.

• AMD ships first Fusion chips for laptops, netbooks

  Advanced Micro Devices has started shipping units of the first low-power Fusion chips for use in consumer laptops and netbooks, a company official said on Tuesday.

• Nvidia announces its fastest graphics card to date

  Nvidia on Tuesday announced its next-generation graphics processing unit, the GeForce GTX 580, which the company said is its fastest-performing GPU to date.

• Nvidia's CUDA to support x86 processors

  On Tuesday, Nvidia announced it was going to support x86 processors as a target for CUDA applications. This means that apps that are currently written to support Nvidia's GPU line for compute applications will be able to run on standard x86 CPUs--no GPU needed.

• High-performance computing rules at GPU Tech Conference

  Nvidia's GPU Tech Conference is evolving to have an even stronger emphasis on high performance computing than the past couple of years. Yes, there are token nods towards the consumer side of the business--Cyberlink is at the show, demoing 3D Blu-ray--but that's about it. PNY is here, but showing its Tesla and Quadro based professional solutions.

• Intel’s Sandy Bridge: PC Sales Supercharger?

  Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge microprocessor design is generating a lot of buzz, primarily because it'll integrate the chipmaker's high-end graphics technology with its CPUs.

• Nvidia's laptop graphics cards to boost Web browsing

  Nvidia on Friday announced seven new GeForce 400M series graphics cards for laptops, which could provide parallel-processing capabilities to accelerate Web browsing and 3D image rendering.

• AMD says goodbye to the ATI brand

  Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it will remove the ATI name from its products by the end of the year, killing a brand name synonymous with graphics enthusiasts for 25 years.

• GPUs: Powering your gaming and cracking your passwords

  Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, led by Richard Boyd, have demonstrated that off-the-shelf GPUs (the same that power the video card in your PC) are better at cracking passwords than had previously been thought, according to a BBC report.

• Faulty GPUs continue to burden Nvidia's profitability

  Nvidia on Thursday reported a loss for the second quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, caused partly by charges related to faulty laptop graphics processors the company sold more than two years ago.

• AMD overtakes Nvidia as top discrete graphics vendor

  Advanced Micro Devices overtook Nvidia during the second quarter to become the top discrete graphics card vendor, according to market research firm Mercury Research.

• Nvidia tunes 3D offerings for businesses

  Nvidia is extending its 3D offerings from homes to businesses, announcing new 3D glasses and transmitters for use in meetings and presentations.