SATA3 Expected by the end of the Year

AMD and Seagate are collaborating on a new hard drive with a Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3. SATA3 offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. (SATA3, or SATA 6GB/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specs.) In the current market most consumer-grade computers use either the SATA or SATA2 interfaces. These interfaces ...

AMD Entering the Netbook Market

If your shopping for a netbook you will get an Intel atom platform. They are relatively fast, have low heat and power consumption. AMD is looking to convince some of the netbook makers to go with them instead of Intel. AMD would love to get into the market with their “Yukon” platform, which may be better than the atom. ...