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Japanese serial leaksman 188号 just posted up two mobile CPU roadmaps: one for Intel CPUs, and one for AMD. Chalk this one up as half-leak, half-rumor, because these clearly aren't official slides from Intel or AMD, but rather seem to be...
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There have been many reports on AMD CPUs dying, with burnt pins on the socket. It's not frequent or particularly widespread, but naturally it caused concern, particularly among gamers, as the CPUs in question were often Ryzen 7 7800X3D and...
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Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single component's source code is released. That's...
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The first official sighting of AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 out in the wild is now in the books after a user on Reddit scored a Gigabyte variant and then promptly posted a picture of the retail packaging. Announced back at Computex, AMD's...
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Coincedentally, I was just discussing desktop PC power delivery woes with some friends, and voilá, ASUS releases a motherboard that addresses this topic. The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF is one meaty motherboard, ready to take the latest...
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The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a email highlighting some interesting figures...
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The tech space has no shortage of personalities, and memes about Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang are in plentiful supply—especially considering how pivotal their decisions are. However, one person who's just as relevant right now is...
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The Xbox has been taking some lumps this year. There has been a wave of layoffs and various headlines claiming that its hardware division is dead. The latter looks like a bad take though, with rumors circulating that there will be a next...
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AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly agreed to pay the United States government 15% of all revenues derived from AI chip sales to China, thereby giving the green light for the former to begin shipping Instinct MI308 accelerators and the latter...
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A semi-trailer loaded with an estimated $15 million in electronics was driven off from an unsecured lot in Reno, Nevada in yet another daring and well-organized theft. Much of the property stolen in the July 3rd heist was AMD and Apple...
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Without a press release, blog post, or even a tweet to mark the occasion, AMD has quietly added a new workstation GPU to its Radeon PRO lineup: the Radeon PRO W7400. This card slots into the company's W7000 series as an even-lower-power alternative to the two-year-old W7500. With a...
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AMD overcame export restrictions on its Instinct MI308 data center GPU to still post its best quarter ever, with revenue increasing 34% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to nearly $7.7 billion. It also saw a giant increase in net income...
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Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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AMD is expanding its discrete RDNA 4 GPU lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 9060, a non-XT version of of the 9060 XT that now occupies the bottom spot in the Radeon RX 9000 series family. According to AMD, the entry-level gaming card...
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It took some time, but AMD managed to breach a 40% adoption rate on Steam for the first time ever, according to Valve's latest Steam survey results. It's not inconceivable that AMD could match or even overtake Intel in Steam usage by this...
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If you read our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, then you already know that it's one of the best options to build a gaming PC around. That was true last November when we put the chip through its paces, presuming you could find it in stock and...
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If you've been following GPU news in recent days, you may have come across some findings highlighting that some games based on Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) suffer from heavy stuttering with AMD's RX 9000-series cards when ray-tracing (RT) effects...
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When we initially heard rumors about AMD's Strix Halo processors, we were dubious. When AMD announced those chips as the Ryzen AI Max 300 family, we were cautiously optimistic. We didn't become true believers in the design until we tested...
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The news are just in, and El Capitan reigns supreme. Named after the massive rock structure at Yosemite National Park, the subject of the day is the El Capitan supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The machine just...
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series: 9980X $4999, 9970X $2499 The Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series is AMD's most powerful HEDT and workstation processors line-up ever, offering significantly better performance and efficiency than...
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TSMC chips have been a hot commodity this decade, and AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su feels like they're worth a premium price to be made in the USA. This is notable, as a lot of AMD's products, like the Radeon RX 9070 XT, sport chips manufactured on...
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AMD has officially enabled Stable Diffusion on its latest generation of Ryzen AI processors, bringing local generative AI image creation to systems equipped with XDNA 2 NPUs. The feature arrives through integration with Amuse, a free and...
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