Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has decided to kill its ATI brand name, judging that the names of its graphics chip products, such as Radeon and FirePro, in combination with the AMD brand, are familiar enough to consumers to stand on their own. AMD had bought graphics chip manufacturer ATI for $5.4 billion back in 2006., in one of the biggest acquisitions ever in the semiconductor industry, and internally, ATI was renamed to AMD...

Asus has restyled its Eee Top all-in-one nettop – and the result is one heck of a looker. We say ‘nettop’, but only three of the five new Eee Top ET2010 series use Intel Atom processors – the other two have the AMD Athlon II X2 250u partnered with AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphics chip to drive the all-in-one’s 20in, 1600 x 900 display. The Atom-based ET2010s come in two flavours: one with the...

One card, six displays, one billion pixels AMD has announced a new graphics card that can fill six displays with over 1 billion pixels per second to provide what the company unblushingly claims to be “the ultimate in entertainment and productivity.” The Wednesday announcement of the expansively named ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition notes that users of the card can benefit from the “well-developed ecosystem”...