Dual-core AMD Turion: slow out of the gate review
Reviews The early results on AMD's dual-core Turion 64 X2 mobile processor are not encouraging, either in terms of performance or power management. Perhaps under heavy multitasking scenarios, the fact that each core on a Turion 64 X2 chip has its own L2...
[June 26, 2006, 10:35]
AMD's Turion gets a second core
News AMD has gone dual-core across the board with the expected release of the Turion 64 X2 processors on Wednesday. The Turion processor was AMD's first major effort to build a processor designed specifically for notebooks, and it now has two cores...
[May 17, 2006, 8:55]
AMD slashes chip prices
News AMD cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile processors, bringing them more in line with the prices of some Intel chips. It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company...
[January 24, 2006, 8:50]
AMD readies dual-core Athlon 64
News A dual-core Turion for notebooks will come out in 2006. AMD plans to release its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as HP, Acer and Lenovo will discuss how they will use them in their product lines.
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
HP Compaq 6715b review
Reviews The HP Compaq 6715b runs AMD’s Turion 64 X2 processor. Design Despite its 'balanced mobility' billing, this is a sizeable (35.7cm by 26.5cm by 3.5cm) notebook weighing 2.7kg, which places it at the limit of what mobile professionals would be...
[September 17, 2007, 10:44]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews AMD Kite early 2007) nm Turion 64, Turion 64 X2, and Sempron processors, DVI support May 2006: Ahtlon 64 X2 and Turion 64 X2 Turion 64 March of that year saw the release of Turion 64, which featured support for 64-bit computing and new power...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi review
Reviews That price is pretty steep for a notebook of this size, but it does include some high-end components: a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 dual-core processor, 2GB of fast 667MHz RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card with 512MB dedicated...
[November 8, 2006, 11:52]
AMD cuts chip prices
News The cuts come on Opteron server chips, Turion and Sempron notebook chips, and the single- and dual-core Athlon processors, as well as the budget Sempron line. The Athlon 64 400+ dropped from $482 to $375, while the Turion 64 ML-40 dropped from $525...
[August 2, 2005, 9:25]
Photos: HP shows off latest laptops
News Currently the product has an Intel Core Duo processor, but HP will soon offer an AMD dual core processor: the AMD Turion 64 X2. It has a "hi-tech" brushed steel shell, and by this summer will be sold with AMD Turion 64X2 dual core chips as well as...
[May 10, 2006, 16:10]
AMD, Intel fortunes diverge over past year
News Interestingly, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 desktop chip and Turion notebook chip were the best-selling chips in their respective segments during June, at least among retail PC buyers. This week is likely to play out very differently for Intel's Paul...
[July 17, 2007, 10:31]
