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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 28, 2026
AMD is betting big on its relationship with Meta, announcing plans to invest $1 billion in the social media giant's equity offering. The investment comes as the two companies expand their collaboration on AI infrastructure, with millions...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Oct 27, 2026
Last week, AMD dropped Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1, so-named because it was the first AMD graphics driver release in October. Graphics driver releases are usually a little humdrum, so we don't normally cover them in detail...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Oct 23, 2026
AMD and Intel are teaming up to simplify AI development on x86 CPUs, consolidating their respective optimizations for PyTorch under the open-source oneDNN library. The move aims to give developers a common software path across both...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Oct 23, 2026
AMD's HIP is its "Heterogeneous Interface for Portability". It's a library that functions similarly to NVIDIA's CUDA in that it provides runtime APIs for compute applications across multiple platforms, including CUDA itself. So there's a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 23, 2026
Godzilla has been wreaking havoc and battling giant monsters on the big screen for decades. Now, the King of the Monsters is making its way onto laptops, with Fujitsu rolling out a special-edition FMV Zero Godzilla Edition notebook...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Oct 21, 2026
In a blog post and accompanying YouTube video, AMD has just revealed that it has finally brought its ML-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, Xbox Series X|S consoles, and to integrated graphics, including...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 13, 2026
AMD is doubling down on its ultra-compact workstation compute to challenge NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Apple's family of Mac mini systems. Following the launch of its Ryzen AI Halo workstation that we reviewed earlier this year, AMD has...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Oct 12, 2026
The Helios AI is AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Oct 12, 2026
Although it has been roughly 17 months since the initial release of its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series cards, news regarding its next generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture remains scarce, with rumors indicating we could be waiting another year for anything solid to materialize. We have...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Oct 08, 2026
In an official statement from AMD's Computing and Graphics VP Jack Huynh, the company confirms plans to expand FSR 4 upscaling support across its APUs, which includes chips powering many PC gaming handhelds and laptops, by the end of the...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Oct 03, 2026
Valve has been quick to downplay most rumors about a potential "Steam Deck 2." The firm says that a next-gen handheld is not coming until Valve's developers feel that there has been a true generational improvement in technology, so that...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 29, 2026
AMD is making one of its biggest strategic moves yet to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance in the artificial intelligence landscape. In an all-stock deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion, AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Sep 19, 2026
AMD has updated its performance estimates for its upcoming 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and the latest numbers make an aggressive case against Intel and NVIDIA in high-density data center workloads. A new AMD white paper, titled...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Sep 12, 2026
There are two new AMD CPUs on the block, and normally that would be bigger news, but both of these chips are based on previous-generation processor technology, and one of them is yet another new SKU for the decade-old Socket AM4 platform...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Sep 09, 2026
Valve's updated Steam hardware survey for the month of August reveals an interesting development within Team Red's camp. Serving as a notable milestone for AMD's graphics lineup, the company's flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT is now its most...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 07, 2026
AMD unveiled its beastly Threadripper Halo Station during its keynote at IFA Berlin 2026. Capable of running AI models with more than a trillion (yes, TRILLION) parameters, AMD's Senior VP Jack Huynh said the Threadripper Halo Station is...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Sep 05, 2026
Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Minisforum has officially announced the MS-S1 Max-P495, an ultra-compact mini-workstation designed to put serious local AI horsepower on your desk. Powered by AMD's flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 01, 2026
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has awarded a €387.8 million (around $450 million in U.S. currency) procurement contract to systems vendor Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, Europe's next-generation flagship...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 26, 2026
If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably read that headline and said "well yeah?", while if you don't follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably have no idea what we're talking about. Here's the short version: AMD's...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Aug 21, 2026
Today, the house of Radeon has just released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1. This new driver package brings support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy as well as the X-COM-like Star Wars Zero Company and Call of Duty: Modern...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 21, 2026
The global PC processor market experienced an unexpected surge in the second quarter of 2026, with total x86 and Arm-based CPU shipments growing more than 10% sequentially to defy normal seasonal trends, according to fresh data from...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 07, 2026
AMD is making a big bet on the future of AI hardware. The Santa Clara chip designer announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, a company taking an unconventional approach to inference by...
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