Lux and Discovery to fly the flag

AMD has landed a deal with the US government to supply silicon for two heavy-duty supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 

AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.

Limited edition to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

ASUS has announced yet another limited edition graphics card, the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Edition, designed in cooperation with AMD and Activision.

Krackan released on desktop before year’s end

AMD might finally be ready to bring its long-awaited Zen 5-based APUs to the mainstream AM5 platform, if a new AGESA BIOS leak is to be believed.

Tool aims to push chipmaking into the ‘More-than-Moore’ era

Dutch chip gear maker ASML has lifted the kimono its Twinscan XT:260, a new lithography scanner built for the brave new world of 3D chip packaging.

Twinscan EUV kit and shiny wafer robots steal the show

Wafer-maker-in-chief TSMC has released a glossy video giving the world a look inside its Fab 21 plant in Phoenix, Arizona, and it’s stuffed with chip porn for the semiconductor-curious.

Heading to handhelds

It looks like AMD’s having another go at Arm CPUs, this time with a range codenamed “Soundwave” and aimed squarely at the handheld and low-power gaming market.

Flashy deals don't fill fabs

Troubled Chipzilla’s ex-boss, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger, has waded in on the firm’s latest equity-focused bromances with the US government and Nvidia, warning that none of it matters if they don’t result in chips getting made in Intel fabs.

Acronyms everywhere

Troubled Chipzilla and AMD announced the one-year anniversary of their x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group which they claim is making the x86 architecture more compatible, predictable and less of a dog's breakfast

Lines up TSMC’s finest silicon to take a swing at Nvidia’s AI throne

AMD is preparing to go all in on advanced chipmaking with its next-generation Instinct MI450-series accelerators, built on TSMC’s brand-new N2 process.