Users panic over missing components, but it’s not a fake

Some Ryzen 7000 series chips are shipping without their usual dose of SMD capacitors, but AMD insists it’s all part of its cunning plan.

Ramps up in-house CPU plans

Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.

Priced at US $1,220

Although previously rumored to be available only to OEMs and system integrators, a Reddit user has managed to buy a Gigabyte Radeon AI PRO R9700 from a retail shop for $1,220.

Record 41 per cent share

Chipzilla’s life just got a lot more miserable after AMD walked off with a record 41 per cent of server revenue in the second quarter of 2025, according to number crunchers from Mercury Research.

Intel’s restructuring leaves key open-source work without a home

Troubled Chipzilla’s decision to sack around 24,000 workers has not only left its product lines short-staffed, it has gutted some of the essential work keeping Linux support alive for Intel hardware.

Panic buying boosts shipments 

Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.

Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers

The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.

Adds curvy new Odyssey G7 to its display arsenal

Samsung has decided gamers still aren’t clicking enough buttons per second, so it’s unveiled the Odyssey OLED G6, which it claims is the world’s first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor, alongside two new Odyssey G7 models.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D shipments halted

AMD appears to have pulled the plug on its Ryzen 7 5700X3D, ending the run of X3D CPUs for the company’s long-lived AM4 platform.

Navi 33 silicon gets another spin for gamers and workstations

AMD has added two new cards to its line-up, the Radeon RX 7400 for gamers who like to keep their wallets intact, and the Radeon Pro W7400 for the workstation crowd.