Yesterday was a day for AMD announcements, Shanghai launched, OEM partners announced support and AMD/ATi talked about Stream.

In the midst of all of this I missed out on a very good read from Charlie Demerjian about how AMD/ATi are pushing Stream to the consumer. Of late Charlie has taken a very hard line on nVidia and their practices, well this article is not much different but is very enlightening on the GPGPU war to come.

Get your Stream info here

In AMD news part three today we find that AMD is delaying its Fusion CPU with integrated GPU.

According to TGDaily, Fusion was set to debut in 2009 as a 45nm chip but AMD has decided to push it back to 2011 and will see day light as a 32nm process.

Read the complete article at TGDaily

Shuttle were once a name we saw pop up nearly every day when they stormed the SFF market with their XPC lineup of barebone systems; neat little compact units which still allowed for solid performance, making them an attractive LAN gaming box or HTPC.

For some reason they're not as popular these days as they used to be and I'm not exactly sure why this is. I guess the excitement of them being something new and different has worn off.

However, Shuttle continues to compliment the lineup with new variants that run the latest motherboard chipsets and offer the ability to put together a seriously kicken' box.

The folks over at iBUYPOWER have launched a new series of Gaming PCs based on the Intel Core i7 Processor.

These new systems will come housed in the CoolerMaster HAF 932 and fall into the Paladin line.

Details are not yet up on iBUYPOWER.com but should appear shortly.

AMD's 45nm Deneb CPU offerings will be unveiled during CES 2009, according to this report from Fudzilla.

It is claimed that early January has been hallmarked for the launch pad, followed by imminent availability.

ATi (AMD) has just released Catalyst 8.11 for your Radeon enjoyment.

This latest round of drivers from AMD boasts performance improvements for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky and FarCry2 as well as improvements for CrossfireX, Hydra Vision support for XP and some additions to the Linux versions of the drivers.

Read the Release Notes here

Another Shanghai support update; Tyan has announced a total of 23 current mainboards and one new mainboard with full support for Shanghai.

This follows the announcement of general availability of the new AMD 45nm quad core Opterons and a list from MSI of mainboards with AM3 support.

Read the Press release here

Amid all the happy news of the AMD Shanghai launch there is some gloomy news out also.

It seems that Intel has cut their Q4 predictions by about 19% (roughly $1 Billion). According to an article at the Inquirer, Intel blames this reduction on the current economic crisis and "significantly weaker than expected demand in all geographies and market segments ".

Intel was not the only one to report bad news as Lenovo, Cisco, and National Semiconductor have also posted up gloomy forecasts.

AMD has launched its much anticipated 45nm Quad Core Opterons. These new CPUs have been in the news quite a bit lately with the launch of Intel's Nehalem and will be in the tech media's sights to see if AMD's performance claims will meet with reality.

After the botched launch of Barcelona, Shanghai needs to be a winner out of the gate to regain market confidence. AMD has put a considerable amount of pre-launch effort into this (more than their usual Xenophobic tactics allow) and are touting some high performance and efficiency numbers.

Read the release here

Dell has commenced shipments of the new addition to its XPS desktop line-up, according to this report from TechConnect Magazine.

The XPS 430, seen above, goes for a striking gloss finish and packs in an Intel X48 motherboard solution, forming the foundation for either a Core 2 Quad or Extreme CPU. 6 or 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and one of a multitude of AMD graphics solutions, also helps in the customisability stakes.