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Chris Harper - Tue, Nov 04, 2025
If you were ordered to pick a random number and guess "zero", it may be a great choice—but not if it's what you pick every time you're asked, as current AMD Zen 5 CPUs are prone to do in certain conditions. Specifically, AMD has confirmed...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Nov 04, 2025
Have you ever heard of a company called Adeia? We haven't either. Founded in 2022, Adeia was originally the IP licensing arm of Xperi, which was formerly known as Tessera. What IP, you might ask? Well, a large portfolio of patents...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Nov 02, 2025
AMD has issued another statement clarifying its Radeon GPU driver strategy after its latest Adrenalin Edition release (version 25.10.2) created a fair bit of confusion and anxiety among owners of older graphics cards. In less uncertain...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Oct 30, 2025
AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library. The move to openSIL will improve security and scalability while...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 27, 2025
Another Ryzen processor with 3D V-Cache underneath the hood is evidently inbound, and based on the model name, it takes aim at builders who want to piece together an affordable gaming PC. It's the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, and while nothing is yet...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 24, 2025
It's taken a little longer than anticipated to arrive to market, but AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics card for AI developers finally has a firm release date and pricing. In a post on X, AMD's vice president and general managerf of Ryzen...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Oct 21, 2025
There was a time when processor companies released new CPUs a full generation at a time. In the last several years though, AMD has thrown that practice out the window. New CPUs come from the company whenever they're good and ready, it...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Oct 14, 2025
Last year, AMD and Intel formed the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group. On the cusp of their one year anniversary, AMD has released a blog post detailing the advancements made by AMD, Intel and "key ecosystem partners" in the time since, as well...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Oct 13, 2025
AMD's Socket AM4 launched way back in September 2016, and it's still getting new CPUs released to this very day. However, some of the earliest boards may not have ever gotten the necessary BIOS updates to support newer-generation CPUs...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Oct 10, 2025
One of the big features that AMD fans boast about when extolling the virtues of the Ryzen platform is forward compatibility. This very writer bought an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard way back in 2019 for the launch of AMD's Ryzen 3000...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Oct 09, 2025
In a video posted to the official PlayStation YouTube channel this morning, AMD and Sony detailed a few major advancements in AMD's GPU architecture developed under the two companies' Project Amethyst collaboration—advancements that point...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 09, 2025
AMD's next-generation Instinct MI450 AI accelerator for the data center will tap into TSMC's 2-nanometer (N2) process technology, at least for part of the GPU's construction. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed as much during an interview...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 06, 2025
AMD and OpenAI have come to terms on a multi-year agreement that will see OpenAI buy several generations of Instinct GPUs, as well as invest in a 10% stake in the Santa Clara chip designer. The bombshell announcement comes on the heels of...
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Zak Killian - Sun, Oct 05, 2025
AMD has fully AI-powered frame generation on the way with its FSR Redstone project, but that's not here yet. In the interim, the company has something interesting: the option to customize "Fast Motion Response" within its "Fluid Motion...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 03, 2025
We're a few days into October and that means there is another Steam survey to digest (as we like to do), the latest of which highlights a couple of interesting albeit not unexpected trends. One of those trends is AMD continue to chip away...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Oct 02, 2025
AMD's socket longevity has always been a strong point for the company. AMD supported Socket 7 longer than anyone, and aside from a few missteps (with Slot A and later, some of the APU sockets), the company has typically tried to offer at...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 02, 2025
Intel's ongoing restructuring effort and attempts to boost its chip making business could get an assist from AMD, its main competitor in the x86 space. Nothing has been announcement, but Intel is reportedly in "early-stage" discussions...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Sep 30, 2025
AMD's chiplet architecture has not really changed in a fundamental way since the introduction of the Ryzen 3000 processors based on the Zen 2 architecture back in 2019. The move to Socket AM5 necessitated a new cIOD or "client I/O die", but it's still connected to the CCDs, or Core Complex...
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Chris Harper - Sun, Sep 21, 2025
A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with "a mix of...
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Chris Harper - Fri, Sep 19, 2025
AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 19, 2025
Shares of AMD slid following the announcement that Intel and NVIDIA are teaming up to co-develop several generations of datacenter and PC products. The arrangement, which also includes a $5 billion investment by NVIDIA into Intel common...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Sep 17, 2025
AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD released a new Ryzen 5 5500X3D with 3D...
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