Lately Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled its financial results report for the present year’s first quarter. The Ryzen processors release let the vendor raise its proceeds figure up to $984 mln, which surpasses the previous year’s corresponding sum by 18%. Simultaneously, the manufacturer’s net loss ratio has decreased from $109 mln in Q1 2016 to $73 mln at present.The Computing and Graphics subdivision, being responsible for processors and graphics solutions retail, made the company richer by $593 mln. Comparing to the relevant period last year, profit of this business has got bigger by 29%, which is mostly due to high level of desktop processors and discrete graphics cards sales.
Semicustom SoC products realization brought the company $391 mln of gain and $9 mln of operating earnings. The vendor marks, that expenses for specialties design enlarged, so we are to expect the announce of novelties (namely Zen architecture based server processors) in the second half of …
Hightech Information System Company has completed the development of its secret weapon — the video card HIS 7970 X. The relatively modest-looking product, according to producer’s statement, is equipped with a (18 +1 +1)-channel power supply system, high-performance cooler IceQ X2 and non-standard set of ports — four Mini DisplayPort, single DVI and HDMI. The technology AMD Eyefinity 6 is supported — simultaneous work with six monitors. Clock frequency speeds up model 1000/6000 MHz for core and memory respectively. Hong Kong vendor assigns a novelty to a class of graphics cards Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.
SilverStone Technology, a celebrated Taiwanese PC hardware manufacturer, is going to release at the end of the current month its new mini-tower chassis codenamed SG10 that joined the SilverStone Sugo series. Featuring 354x295x220 mm dimensions, the novice is housed in a case made of stainless steel (totally black exterior and interior) with an aluminum frontal facet. The latter comprises a ventilation slot, covered by an anti-dust grid.