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Make no mistake, Threadripper is not dead. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed there will be at least one more round of Threadripper CPUs, based on the company's Zen 2 CPU architecture. In the lead up to the eventual launch, USB-IF has made references to three new chipsets for the upcoming Threadripper chips...
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Remember those sketches of an unnamed "electronic device" that turned out to be a PlayStation 5 devkit? Well, if you thought the design looked wild, wait until you see some nifty renders based on those black and white drawings. It is still a funky (and futuristic) design, but to our eyeballs, these renders look...
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Remember CrossFire? Its AMDs counter to NVIDIA SLI, allowing enthusiasts to add multiple GPUs in an effort to split up the workload and improve overall gaming performance.
However, you may have noticed with the launch of theRadeon RX 5700 familythat CrossFire support was not included on the graphics...
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What appears to be another third-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor has made an appearance on Geekbench, this time wielding 32 physical cores and 64 threads to throw at workloads. The entry points to a "Sharkstooth" part with a 3.6GHZ base frequency and 128MB (16MB x 8) of L3 cache, along with 16MB of L2...
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Sony has been surprisingly vocal about its upcoming PlayStation 5, first giving us details about the game console back in April. We know that thePlayStation 5 will be a 4K gaming beast, it will be based on AMD Ryzen 3000 and Navi architectures, and that it will have an incredibly fast SSD to dramatically lower...
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AMD shook up the processor market with its 14nm Zen architecture, which first debuted in 2017. It followed up with the 12nm Zen+ refresh in 2018, and we were introduced to 7nm Zen 2 in early July with the launch of the consumer-centricRyzen 3000 processor family. While Ryzen processors have been a noticeable...
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Earlier this morning, a seemingly improbable headline started making waves in the tech world. According to the report, Dr. Lisa Su was plotting an exit from her position as CEO of AMD in an effort to take the #2 spot at IBM.
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su
According to the original story, Sus goal was to eventually ascend to become the...
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The first batch of Navi cards are solid efforts by AMDboth the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 do a good job of competing with comparatively priced graphics cards from NVIDIA. That said, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is still the king of the hill. AMD does not have a card to compete with that beast, but company CEO Dr...
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AMD is on a roll with its Zen CPU and Navi GPU architectures, the former of which is proving particularly compelling to customers across the board. Intel still dominates in overall semiconductor sales, but AMD is not exactly playing second fiddle, or at least it's trying not to. In what could be a major boost to AMD's...
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Will we ever see another Ryzen Threadripper processor out of AMD? The answer is a resounding 'yes', and a new benchmark database entry may provide a first look at the specs of one of the presumably lower end versions of the upcoming Threadripper 3000 series. At a glance, the entry certain looks plausible, at...
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AMD pretty much dropped a nuke on the desktop processor market with its new 7nm Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 family of processors. As our review of theRyzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900Xshowed, these processors offer strong single- and multi-core performance in a wide variety of applications, and AMD is being very aggressive...
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Updated 7/15/2019 @ 2:12pm
AMD CEO Lisa Su today confirmed Frank Azor's move and welcomed him on his first official day at work:
Extremely happy to welcome @AzorFrank on his very first day @AMD. Frank is a powerhouse in the industry and we are thrilled to have him as our new chief architect of gaming...
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Sony took the unprecedented step of spilling the beans on quite a bit about of information regarding its upcoming PlayStation 5 console more than a year ahead of its official release. In anApril interview, Sony revealed that the PS5 will be powered by a 7nm AMD Ryzen 3000 processor along with a 7nm Radeon Navi GPU. We...
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When AMD announced its 7nm Zen 2-basedRyzen 3000processors at Computex, the enthusiast community stood up and took notice. Later, when AMD capped off the new processor family with the bodacious and powerful 16-core/32-threadRyzen 9 3950X, it absolutely rocked the desktop PC community. However, it appears computing...
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Anticipation is running high for AMD's second-generation EPYC server processors, codenamed Rome, which will start shipping to customers later this year. We have seen a spattering of benchmark demonstrations from AMD, but what about the specific lineup and pricing? Official details have yet to come, though a new leak...
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Back in early May, AMD released a new, updated2019 desktop processor roadmapthat mysteriously left off third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors based on the 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. This absence was notable because AMD's previousMarch 2019 roadmap updatefeatured the processors.
Speculation ran rampant...
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AMD has beenriding highever since Computex 2019 when it gave us our first look at theRyzen 3000family of Zen 2 desktop processors. At the time, the company announced a family that [for now] starts with the $199 Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores, 12 threads) and tops out with the Ryzen 9 3900X (12 cores, 24 threads).
Leading up...
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AMD has been garnering a lot of the spotlight in the PC community since Computex 2019 with itsRyzen 3000 unveiland it has been showcasing plenty of benchmarks where it dominates the Core competition from Intel. Apparently, Intel has had enough because the company is snapping back in its strongest language to date over...
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AMD has had an exciting past few weeks. The company unveiled its third-generation Ryzen 3000 processor at Computex 2019 alongside its Radeon RX 5000-Series Navi graphics cards. AMD's showing was impressive enough for investors to juice the stockby nearly 10 percentfollowing Lisa Su's Computex...
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It is fair to say that AMD is firing on all cylinders these days, and companies are taking notice. Following the recent launch of its third-generation Ryzen processors based on Zen 2 and an unveiling of Navi, AMD has now partnered with Samsung to license its Radeon graphics IP, which will now find its way into...
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For the first time ever, AMD on Monday delivered the opening keynote at Computex 2019, and the company did not disappoint. As expected, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled a new generation of Ryzen 3000 series processors based on the company's Zen 2 CPU architecture, and talked about Navi. Following the event...
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More details on upcoming products are coming out of Computex, which began with a keynote by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su on Monday, and runs through Saturday, June 1. AMD kicked things off with a bangthe Sunnyvale chip designer announced its Ryzen 3000 series lineup based on Zen 2, and formally introduced...
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