Intel, AMD, and other PC titans join forces to fortify x86 CPUs
For years, both AMD and Intel have energetically competed against one another in the PC processor market. But there’s a new force to be reckoned with — Arm — and both AMD and Intel are…
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AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia
On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers in the fourth quarter of this year. At an event hosted in San Francisco, the…
AMD pushes the power of Ryzen AI 300 CPUs to business laptops
AMD announced its third-generation Ryzen Pro processors for business laptops on Thursday, taking the AI power of its Ryzen AI 300 consumer processors and applying them to the business world. AMD launched three very similar…
AMD motherboards are causing massive slowdowns for PCIe 5.0 SSDs
If you’re running a PCIe Gen 5 solid-state drive, odds are pretty good that you care a lot about speed. After all, you paid a big premium to get one of the fastest SSDs available…
AMD will unify Radeon and Pro graphics to battle Nvidia’s dominance
AMD plans to unify the architectures used by its datacenter and consumer graphics architectures in what one company executive is calling a “new DNA,” or a “unified DNA,” that combines its CDNA and RDNA architectures.…
AMD exec: Next-gen Radeons focus on mainstream, not monster GPUs
For months, internet rumor mills have claimed that AMD’s next-generation Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards would cede the high-end market to Nvidia’s GeForce lineup, after the GeForce RTX 4090 stomped all over the competition this…
Windows 11 update will add Copilot+ powers to AMD and Intel laptops
Laptops with new AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips have the AI horsepower to qualify as Copilot+ PCs and run the newfangled Windows features tied to that qualification. But they…
Beware of counterfeit AMD Ryzen CPUs! Here’s what to look for
Tech YouTuber Roman Hartung (aka “der8auer”) just pointed out in one of his recent videos that elaborate CPU fakes are currently in circulation, and he personally came across a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D that…
Laptop graphics fight! Does Intel, AMD or Qualcomm have more game?
Most PC gamers know that a laptop with a discrete GPU from AMD or (most likely) Nvidia is a must-have for playing modern PC games on a portable machine. Yet, despite that, many people find…
AMD talks Ryzen 9000 controversy: ‘We were as puzzled’ as reviewers
AMD’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 9000 desktop processors launched earlier this month, and well, the gaming performance improvements seen by independent reviewers weren’t as hot as expected – or as hot as AMD attested to in…