AMD is giving gamers a welcome treat, free in-demand games with the company’s new “Never Settle” bundle.
These  games are not run-of-the-mill games of old either as AMD is bundling with its “Never Settle” bundle Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs with its 7900 series.
AMD also offers a discount with the “Never Settle” bundle for Medal Of Honor: Warfighter.
As an added treat, AMD says that Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider will come to “Never Settle” next …

AMD has announced the launch of AMD AppZone, an online showcase for applications and games accelerated by AMD Radeon graphics processing units (GPUs) and AMD accelerated processing units (APUs).
In addition to featuring some of the most recognizable PC games and productivity apps, consumers can now download and seamlessly run popular Android apps on AMD-based PCs running Windows thanks to a collaboration with BlueStacks to enable the AMD AppZone Player.
Powered by BlueStacks’ …

AMD Appoints New CMO / image via LinkedIn

AMD has announced in a press release the appointment of Colette LaForce in the position of Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to Rory Read, president and CEO of AMD.
In her new role, LaForce will lead AMD’s marketing operations globally, including marketing strategy, branding, internal and external communications, corporate events, sponsorship and entertainment marketing.
Rory Read, AMD CEO, said that Colette LaForce has a vast …

A former employee of Intel has pled guilty of stealing confidential documents concerning chip designs from the silicon giant after he jumped ship and joined AMD.
According to a report from Bloomberg, 36-year-old Biswamohan Pani pled guilty on Friday to pillaging “valuable computer chip manufacturing and design documents from his former employer”.
However, it is important to note that AMD is said to apparently have had no knowledge that Pani took the documents from Intel.
It also appears …

Microsoft has released a hotfix to enhance the performance of the Bulldozer line of powerful processors from AMD.
The Microsoft patch is for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 and is made to increase the performance of the system running the said operating systems when powered by a Bulldozer CPU.
“Currently, the performance of AMD Bulldozer CPUs is slower than expected,” Microsoft said in its patch release.
“This behavior occurs because the threading logic in Windows 7 and in Windows …

Apple is said to have prepared a version of the MacBook Air running on an AMD processor, but dropped the version before release, a new report says.
The news comes via SemiAccurate, which says that: “In one of those ‘could have been a contender’ moments, SemiAccurate has learned that Apple had a Llano based MacBook Air on the verge of production.”
According to the publication, Apple developed the AMD Llano-running MacBook Air last spring and that “it was really really close to …

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is cutting over a tenth of its workforce as the company is looking to streamline operations in a bid to save on costs, various reports say.

AMD will cut about 12 percent off of its workforce to cut costs. Image: shawe_ewahs / Flickr (CC)

According o the Sunnyvale, California-based company, the cost-cutting measure was brought about by a sluggish computer market and manufacturing delays.
AMD is currently second to Intel as the world’s largest maker of …

Intel continues to dominate the microprocessor market in terms of revenue, global market intelligence firm IDC reports on its latest figures.

(Image: Michael Sheehan (CC), via Flickr)

According to the International Data Corporation, the Santa Clara-based tech firm had a whopping above 80 percent microprocessor market share worth $10.7 billion for the third fiscal quarter.
Intel managed to gross 12 percent more than Q3 of last year while microprocessor shipments crawled up by 5 percent, with …

AMD has invested in BlueStacks, a firm that raised $6.4 million to port Android apps to Windows PCs.

AMD Fusion Motherboard Nano-ITX with 1.6GHz dual-core CPU, ATI 6310 GPU, and Dual HDMI Output. (Image: Mike Rosenberg (CC-BY-2.0), via Wikimedia Commons)

The chipmaker’s investment aims to urge BlueStacks in enhancing its App Player for Windows to run on AMD Fusion application processing units (APUs).
BlueStacks App Player helps deliver more than 200,000 available apps in the Android Market …

AMD has revealed details about its much-anticipated FX processors built on its latest Bulldozer processor microarchitecture.

AMD has revealed details about its new FX Bulldozer architecture-based processors. Image: AMD

According to AMD, the FX processors will “cater to people who want maximum performance and upgradability.”
First and the most powerful on the new FX line is the FX-8150. The flagship processor has eight cores, 8MP L2 cache and will have a base clock of 3.6GHz, an already …