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Advanced Micro Devices is hoping to please web hosting providers with a new platform it claims offers more power efficiency and a “desktop like experience”.

The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony's Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku.

What we're hearing from sources follow a Forbes rumor last week that chip-maker AMD would make the graphics chip for a PS4, a shift from the PS3's use of a graphics chip from AMD rival Nvidia. The abandonment of the Cell architecture would thrill the many game developers who have struggled with the complex chipset, but it could also be viewed as the admission of a mistake.

AMD today laid out its plans for the next couple of years at its Financial Analyst Day. The plans are a mix of familiar and logical extensions of the company's current products, but contained some more surprising elements: specifically, AMD opened the door to future processors that include ARM CPUs.

Chip outfit AMD sems to have dropped a bit of a clanger with its latest promotional ruse to flog some of its graphics cards.

Buyers have been wooed with the promise of the free game to play on their Radeon cards and, in many cases, the ride 'em up Dirt 3 proves a popular choice.

Traditionally AMD supplies an unlock key to give the graphics card purchaser the opportunity to play the bundled game. Unfortunately, the outfit has contrived to make some 1.7 million promotional keys for Codemasters’ DiRT 3 available by employing shonky security on its site.

High-end retail versions of AMD's upcoming desktop processor code named 'Bulldozer' make come equipped with liquid-cooling components according to an Xbit Labs report.

The liquid cooling solution (LCS) will apparently enhance the degree of stable overclocking and will appear in boxed version of the FX-series of processors as AMD revives the well-regarded enthusiast FX brand.

AMD's hardware chum Gateway has accidentally told the world and its dog the clock-speeds for AMD's new Opteron chips, code-named Interlagos and Valencia.

X-Bit labs has been looking closely at Gateway's coming attractions and worked out that the clockspeeds will be a bit slower than many are expecting.

AMD's Bulldozer processor architecture still hasn't formally launched, but Donanim Haber got a hold of a recent engineering sample with benchmarked speeds that come close to Intel's current Sandy Bridge CPUs. With the ability to run limited cores at up to 4.2GHz, it could potentially outperform comparable Intel hardware at certain workloads.

AMD plans to add two chips and "Turbo Core" acceleration technology to its successful line of E-Series APUs (accelerated processing units) in the third quarter, says the Xbitlabs website. Meanwhile, shipments of high-end, "Bulldozer"-based FX-Series chips will start in June, and mid-range "Llano"-based A-Series devices in July, according to writer Anton Shilov.

Advanced Micro Devices, the second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors on the globe and the designer of half of the world's discrete graphics adapters, said that Intel Corp.'s recently introduced Thunderbolt input/output technology will become just another proprietary standard with not a lot of chances to be adopted widely. The chip designer also doubted that the TB actually brings any tangible improvements.

AMD CEO Dirk Meyer will step down after reaching an agreement with the company's board over his departure, AMD said today. Thomas Siefert, AMD's CFO, will fill Meyer's spot on a temporary basis as the company searches for a new CEO. It doesn't sound like the decision was entirely Meyer's.