AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction of the original Core 2 processors, and more recently the Core i7, AMD’s processor division has fallen well behind Intel in terms of overall performance. Starting in November of last year though, we got a sense that AMD was slowly, but surely, clawing its way back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction of the original Core 2 processors, and more recently the Core i7, AMD’s processor division has fallen well behind Intel in terms of overall performance. Starting in November of last year though, we got a sense that AMD was slowly, but surely, clawing its way back Continue reading