AMD may be a distant second when it comes to making x86 processors for desktops and notebooks but the company has been making some exciting moves lately. This week it announced what it describes as ...

According to a recent press release, AMD unleashed the first ever processor clocked at up to 5GHz right from the factory. The AMD FX-9590, the new flagship part of the FX-9000 lineup is the latest ...

The product categories in the CPU marketplace are rapidly eroding. Intel and AMD have spent the last year and a half furiously releasing new products, and tweaking their lines to take on the ...

Want a CPU with the most gigahertz horsepower going? Chipmaker AMD has unveiled the world's first 5GHz, the AMD FX-9590. The FX-9590 is the latest addition to AMD's FX lineup and takes the clock speed ...

AMD introduces today its FX-9000 Series, a family of eight-core processors that are said to be the first in the world to have a clock speed of up to 5GHz. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved ...

In a desperate ploy to stay relevant, AMD has announced the first commercially available CPU to hit 5GHz: the FX-9590. Like its flagship predecessor, the FX-8350, the new chip features four Piledriver ...

On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices announced the AMD FX-9590, the first 5GHz microprocessor for the PC—at a time, unfortunately, when even PC enthusiasts care little about the processor’s clock speed.

At Computex earlier this week, Intel demoed a 28-core processor running at 5GHz to a crowd of hundreds of journalists and thousands of enthusiasts. Intel’s Gregory Bryant focused the presentation on ...

E3 2013 - AMD has just unveiled its most powerful CPU to date, the FX-9590, and eight-core processor that is clocked at 5GHz from the factory. Alongside the FX-9590, AMD also showed off a 4.7GHz ...