Asus has announced their new Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0. The product page is located here.  This is the first AMD motherboard to include PCI Express 3.0 support, and comes with a hefty 5 year warranty.

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The Inquirer reports on the successor to Bobcat, Jaguar.  Its a 28nm process chip with 4 cores.

Jaguar has improvements over Bobcat in terms of instructions per cycle (IPC), clock frequency, and power consumption. The load-store unit has been redesigned for significant performance and power improvements over AMD’s previous generation products, and the floating point unit natively supports 128-bit operation, according to the presentation.

The Inquirer relays that AMD continues to believe a heterogenous architecture is the way to go.

AMD has reiterated the need for a heterogeneous architecture that makes use of both CPU and GPU resources, claiming that it will support increases in programmer productivity and lead to improvements in device efficiency.

Jon "Cananada" Peddie Research has reported that GPU shipmetns were down for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel in Q4 of 2012.  

The news was disappointing for every one of the major players. AMD dropped 13.6%, Intel slipped the least, just 2.9%, and Nvidia declined the most with 16.7% quarter-to-quarter change, this coming on the heels of a spectacular third quarter. The overall PC market actually grew 2.8% quarter-to-quarter while the graphics market declined 8.2% reflecting a decline in double-attach. That may be attributed to Intel's improved embedded graphics, finally making "good enough" a true statement.

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Ocaholic-ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Review

Concerning the TUF series, to which the Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 from ASUS belongs, the manufacturer promises durability thanks to the use of high quality components. Furthermore this thing comes with a camouflage look, which in an elegant way, addresses a certain niche of gamers and in general users who demand quality. You also find that there are numerous connectors on this board and at a first glance it looks like this thing seems to be an excellent allrounder.

Overclockers Club-ECS A85F2-A Golden Review

If you like a big box you're in luck. The A85F2-A Golden is a $130 motherboard, however it is packaged like a $350 motherboard.The name of the game is gold and it is everywhere. The retail box is completely covered in reflective gold foil. Both the front and back are covered with Velcro flaps that reveal a window on the front and extensive product information on the back. Much of the information spells out the virtues of gold around the board. The packaging tells us that internally there is gold on the CPU socket pins, memory sockets, and PCIe slots. Externally, to create the bling factor, there are 'gold' plated capacitors, chokes, and heat sinks.

According to the WSJ former Motorola and AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is putting out a book called Slingshot.  No he isn't slingshoting around the Sun to go back in time and destroy Intel before they become the 800 pound gorilla.  He's talking mostly about Intel's questionable business practices.

Much of the book deals with why Ruiz took the risk of attacking Intel in court, an effort called Project Slingshot. The companies had legal battles as early as the 1980s, but the conflict in the last decade came after AMD introduced a particularly strong lineup of chips but failed to gain as much market share as expected. The book cites multiple examples of big U.S. and Asian PC makers getting excited about using AMD’s products, only to back away or reduce their commitments under what Ruiz describes as Intel financial inducements or threats.

Tech Report and Anandtech try to figure out what is going on with the 8000 series Radeons or Sea Islands.  

As for enthusiasts, the implication that they’re not going to see anything faster than Tahiti until the next generation products at the end of this year is unfortunately unlikely to go over well. Enthusiasts have become used to annual GPU refreshes, and while they’re still somewhat here as we’re seeing with Sea Islands, that era appears to be coming to a close as microarchitectures improve, development costs go up, and the rate of introduction for new fabrication processes slows. And certainly this is quite a departure from the norm. But if nothing else, AMD is right about a couple of things: as it stands AMD is already competitive with NVIDIA’s contemporary high-end offerings, and they're finally competitive with NVIDIA when it comes to developer outreach. Ultimately with the success of the 7900 series AMD today is in a comfortable place, leaving them free to focus on what they already have and how to improve those sales even further.

Tech Report covers the Common Platform Technology Forum.  It is the gathering of Globalfoundries, IBM, and Samsung where they talk about the future of fab processes.  

One thing we don't know is how GlobalFoundries' highest-profile customer will take advantage of this new process tech. With the changes in leadership at AMD has come a more conservative approach to both roadmap disclosures and process technology transitions. All we know at present is that the next-generation "Kaveri" APU, successor the Trinity and Richland and competitor to Ivy Bridge, is slated for 28-nm production late in 2013. Several of AMD's other products, including the low-power "Temash" APU and the "Sea Islands" graphics chips, will be manufactured by TSMC at 28 nm. We'd expect future Opteron and FX processors to make the transition to 20LPM or 14XM at GlobalFoundries, but neither AMD nor GloFo is willing to talk about specifics.

Fudo reports that Global Foundries will be pushing out their 10nm process sometime in 2015.

By the end of the year Globalfoundries plans to start churning out 20nm LPM parts for wired applications and networking. In 2014 we should see the first hybrid 14nm XM (extreme mobility) parts, which combine 14nm FinFET transistors and 20nm back-end-of-line (BEOL). A 10nm hybrid process, utilizing 10nm FinFET with 14nm BEOL, is planned for 2015.

Fudo discusses AMD' sweep of the next gen graphics in all of the consoles, and wonder whether that will increase their luck in the PC market as well.

Nvidia still thinks that it owns the PC gaming market, but it will be interesting to see if AMD can make a bigger comeback in 2013. The vibe from many AMD executives we talked to over the last few weeks is that graphics will become the focus and they want to be a bit more aggressive in this field.