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Lane Babuder - Tue, Jan 17, 2023
Hardware vulnerabilities are never fun, especially when actively exploited in the wild. Forward-looking companies try to get ahead of bad actors by encouraging responsible disclosure and awarding bug bounties.AMD has worked with security...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 31, 2021
Security researchers have discovered a side-channel vulnerability in a similar vein to Meltdown, except this one is present in AMD's processors. AMD confirmed the finding, and has offered guidance to software developers, saying they should...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 12, 2021
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is now in full swing (albeit virtually), and today is a particular busy one. Part of the reason is because AMD's Dr. Lisa Su is scheduled to deliver a keynote, where she will discuss the company's...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 02, 2021
AMD may have unleashed its Zen 3 architecture to the public in 2020, but this is the year that its latest generation CPU architecture will really spread its wings. In the coming months, the Ryzen 5000 series on the desktop will become more...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 21, 2020
Do you think Intel is perhaps feeling the heat from AMD and its latest generation of Ryzen processors? Intel may not be willing to admit it publicly (not in so many words, anyway), but an admission of sorts could come in the form of...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Nov 11, 2019
Last week, AMD announced the first of its newthird-generation Ryzen Threadripperprocessors. These latest Threadripper processors are based on 7nm Zen 2 architecture with the Threadripper 3960X offering up 24 cores/48 threads and the...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 08, 2019
Late last week, Intel announced its strongest answer yet to AMDs Ryzen Threadripper family of HEDT processors with theCascade Lake-X family. While Intels Core-X processors have always been competitive on the performance side of things in...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 01, 2019
Intel wasn't kidding when it said that the new Cascade Lake-X processors (the foundation of the upcoming Core-X family) would offer anywhere from a1.74x to 2.09x uplift in performance per dollarcompared to their Skylake-X predecessors...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 18, 2019
Third-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors are coming, which means that more benchmarks are starting to filter onto the internet giving us a preview of what to expect when it comes to performance. With that in mind, another leak...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 18, 2019
Intel is pretty proud of its incomingCascade Lake-X familyof HEDT (High End Desktop) processors, as the company made very clear in slides late last month. Now, we're getting a look at the first member of the Cascade Lake-X family: the new...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 10, 2019
AMD'sthird-generation Ryzen Threadripper(Zen 2) processors should be here by the end of the year, which means that there are some deals to be had on current and previous generation Threadripper processors. One deal in particular that...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 10, 2019
Back in late August, we got our first glimpse at the chipsets that will underpin AMD's new third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors, which are based onZen 2 architecture. At the time, we didn't know anything about the chipsets other...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 10, 2019
An online retailer in Switzerland may have revealed the release date for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 3950X processor. According the new product listing, the 16-core/32-thread beast is due to launch on in two and half weeks on September 30...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Sep 05, 2019
We know that AMD has third-generationRyzen Threadripper processors in route, and evidence of the pending launch is starting to mount. The latest new comes from respected leaker momomo_us, who uncovered some certification details for the...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Sep 04, 2019
Intel first announced itsCore i9-9900KS processor way back in late May, and we haven't heard much from them about the product since then. The Core i9-9900KS will be Intel's new enthusiast-class flagship processor for its mainstream...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 28, 2019
Here we go againin the lead up to the eventual unveiling of new Threadripper processors based on AMD's 7-nanometer Zen 2 CPU architecture, one of the upcoming chips has again made an appearance on Geekbench. What is remarkable about this...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Aug 23, 2019
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...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 15, 2019
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...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 25, 2019
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...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 02, 2019
In a new video posted to YouTube, AMD senior marketing manager Robert Hallock breaks down a technology that is headed to third-generation Ryzen processors. It is called Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO), and if that sounds like a familiar...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Jun 28, 2019
TheCore i9-9900Kis among the fastest processors that Intel makes available for the mainstream/enthusiast segment of the market. The processor is part of Intel's 9thgeneration Core family, has 8 cores/16 threads along with a base clock of...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jun 13, 2019
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...
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