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Max Lockie
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Ken Kamber
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Louise McCain
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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
www.amd.com
AMD today launched “Dragon”
platform technology for desktop
PCs featuring the new AMD
Phenom™ II X4 processor. Even
the most demanding users such as
enthusiasts and high-end gamers
desire affordable systems capable
of delivering HD entertainment,
graphic-intensive game play at the
highest settings their monitors can
handle, as well as quick and easy
transfer of video entertainment to
and from mobile devices. Dragon
platform technology provides the
power to do it all by combining the
Phenom II X4 processor, with ATI
Radeon™ HD 4800 Series graphics
and AMD 7-Series chipsets.
HP, Dell and Alienware plan to
offer Dragon platform technology-
based desktop systems in the rst
quarter of 2009, with Dell offering
immediate availability in its Dell
XPS desktop line.
The heart of Dragon platform
technology features intelligent
multi-core technology that
automatically provides processing
power where it’s needed most
during multitasking among
demanding applications. Offering
frequencies up to 3.0 GHz
with signicant headroom for
overclocking, without skipping
a beat. The platform offers
fast DirectX® 10 graphics to
improve integrated graphics
processor performance, even at the
highest game settings on display
resolutions beyond HD, limited
only by the resolution of their
monitors.
AMD Phenom II CPUs feature
AMD Cool’n’Quiet™ 3.0 which
automatically provides dramatic
power management improvements
with minimal performance impact.
Its efcient multi-core design offers
low processor temperatures and
quiet fans, even when computing
in HD.
Free Software Supercharging
• AMD OverDrive™ -- Highly-
customizable utility with greater
functionality that can help power-
users take system performance
even further, with advanced over-
clocking controls that can be turned
on and off with a single click.
• AMD Fusion Media Explorer
Beta -- Simplies the entertainment
experiencing by enabling a simple
but powerful way for consumers to
interact with their music, photos,
movies, TV and social media
on their PC. This utility offers
one-button postings of photos to
Facebook™ accounts as well as
automatic related media searches
when the system is online, plus
much more.
In addition to Dragon platform
technology, individual AMD
Phenom II X4 processors will
be available from AMD channel
e-tailers at launch:
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black
Edition processor – (3.0GHz) –
$275 MSRP
AMD Phenom II X4 920 processor
– (2.8GHz) – $235 MSRP
AMD also announced the
availability of the AMD platform
for ultrathin notebooks, enabling
exceedingly thin and light OEM
designs with rich entertainment
capabilities at an affordable price.
The platform is based on the new
AMD Athlon™ Neo processor,
ATI RadeonTM X1250 integrated
graphics and optional ATI Mobility
Radeon™ HD 3410 discrete
graphics. The AMD platform
debuts within the HP Pavilion
dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC