Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD), the chip designer, has released its new Piledriver desktop processors. They are codenamed Vishera.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) displayed Vishera last month at IDF where The INQUIRER managed to snap a picture of the overclocked chip running at 5GHz. The Company has taken initiatives to its eight-core Vishera chip. The company is expecting to leapfrog its flop Bulldozer Zambezi chip.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)’s new processors continue the trend of socket AM3+, revealing that it is a downgrade for the users who used Zambezi processors.
The chip makers announced all four models with FX moniker. Vishera chip, a low end quad core FX-4300 processor clocked at 3.8 GHz up to 4.0 GHz in boost mode and has a 4MB Level3 cache.
The company has kept equivalence among its Vishera FX range, from exceptions of core count and total Level 3 cache. Therefore, AMD’s six-core FX-6300 still possesses the same 1MB of Level 2 cache but has a total Level 3 cache expandable to 8MB. It is clocked at 3.5 GHz with boosts up to 4.1 GHz.
The top two Vishera parts by AMD are FX-8320 and FX-8350 sporting two eight cores and 4mb level 3 cache. The only difference between them is their clock frequencies, the former at 3.5 GHz and the latter at 4.0 Ghz with boost up to 4.2 Ghz.
AMD’s decision to keep up with Socket AM3+ will be a drop in replacement for three year old chips, while some users gaining eight cores for the price of the i5 chip could be tempting.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) shares in the last session began at $2.23 and attained maximum highs of $2.23 throughout the session and finally plunged -3.67% to $2.10. AMD’s shares price fell -31.71% from its 20 days moving average and its earnings per share for this year got a lift of 3.82%. AMD’s weekly performance was -23.64%, monthly was -41.67%, quarterly was -48.28% and yearly was -55.51%.
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to brush off a slow start to compete against ARM and Intel in the Windows 8 tablet market through new customer announcements and future chips.
The company will announce between six to 19 tablets for its Z-60 tablet chip, which is code-named Hondo and was announced earlier this month, said John Taylor, director of marketing at AMD. The new tablets will be announced by January next year, around the time of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where some of the top electronics makers show off their latest wares.