Rants N’ Jibes

AMD will present the first live demonstration of the world’s only triple-core processor, the AMD Phenom X3 and the 780 chipset in the Middle East.

They will also demonstrate their Spider high-performance platform, which combines AMD Phenom quad core processors with the AMD 790 chipset, to enable support for up to four GPUs with power consumption of under 65 watts, for superior gaming performance.

Gautam Srivastava, Vice President , sales and marketing and managing director for AMD, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan, commented: “Through our regional distribution partner, Almasa, we want to educate customers about AMD’s compelling line of solutions that are designed to empower a broad range of customers to experience the performance and multi-tasking capability of true multi-core technology.”

“Regionally, we are seeing a strong demand from customers who want a greater visual experience, by increasing the performance and multi-core capabilities from their desktop PC systems. With the expanded portfolio of new graphics solutions and the new CPU’s based on AMD Phenom Triple-Core and Quad-Core processors, we are meeting the needs of all PC users - from both performance hungry gamers to digital media enthusiasts,” added Srivastava.

Sean Levert (brother of Gerald Levert) was found dead in his jail cell over the weekend. Sean Levert, son of O’Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, was found dead in a Cleveland, Ohio, jail over the weekend, sources said.

Sean Levert, 39, was sent to jail last week for failing to pay about $80,000 in child support. The coroner in Cleveland said that he died after a medical emergency in jail and an autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death. He was a member of the R&B group LeVert with his late brother Gerald Levert and Marc Gordon. Gerald Levert died Nov. 10, 2006 at the age of 40.

Sean Levert, Gerald and Marc Gordon made up the music group Levert, which hit it big in the late 1980s with its popular song “Casanova”.
Sean Levert appeared in the movies Dope Case Pending (2000) and New Jack City (1991).