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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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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 15, 2025
What do Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT priced at MSRP all have in common? Nobody has ever supplied definitive proof that any of them actually exist. That may change, however, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 14, 2025
Once upon a time, hitting triple-digit frame rates in a game was considered a big deal, and that's still sometimes the case but no longer a rarity. So what is a big deal these days? Blowing past the capabilities of any monitor on the...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Sep 11, 2025
Motherboards often skip the limelight enjoyed by GPUs, but a few interesting ones abound such Sapphire's new Nitro and Pulse models. Sapphire is a name familiar to owners of AMD GPUs, like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Much like its competition...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 08, 2025
AMD is now official with its Ryzen 5 9500F, a budget processor that is releasing first to China and could make its way to other territories, just as we saw with the previous generation Ryzen 5 7500F. To be clear, AMD hasn't announced any...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Strictly speaking, based on what we've been told, the answer to the question in the headline is "yes." While official information regarding AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 (or 'UDNA') graphics architecture is incredibly sparse on the ground...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 03, 2025
Today's news isn't strictly news, but a second source is reporting the same thing that was rumored before, so we're going to cover it now. The short version is that AMD's Zen 6 processors are said to be using TSMC's N2 fabrication process...
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