Jim Keller was not a big fan of K12
Exclusive: Zen drive more important
Legendary, now ex AMD chief engineer Jim Keller was not a fan of the ARM-based K12 and sidelined it in favour of Zen development.
AMD Zen silicon might be in good shape
At least a bloke who knows ex AMD chap claims
A website based its article on one forum post claims that AMD Zen meets all expectations because he knows someone who works in AMD. So it must be true.
AMD's Zen man Keller defects to Samsung
That was Zen but this is now
The brains behind some key CPU designs in AMD and Apple has defected to Samsung.
More poor results from AMD
Has to flog plant
AMD's woes are deepening as its profits continue to fall and it lacks any high tech product to pull its nadgers out of the fire.
AMD sheds 500 more staff
We warned you
While we want AMD to do well to balance the Intel and Nvidia empires, it does seem that the outfit cannot get a break. Today it announced that it is letting 500 staff go and will begin another wave of restructuring.
AMD gives TSMC Zen
What is the sound of 16nm FinFET clapping
Amid rumours of Globalfoundries' slow 14nm FinFET yield, it appears that AMD has taken its Zen project to TSMC.
AMD gave Zen engineers a free hand
Has one hand clapping – but no ARM
AMD has said that its Zen engineers had total freedom to build a chip from scratch and come up with the best.
ASUS shows off new Zen all-in-one
All things are One Thing and No-thing
ASUS has been demonstrating its new Zen AiO S series all-in-one PCs.
AMD waves its graphics core next roadmap
Optimism or misty optics?
AMD has been waving about its graphics core next [GCN] roadmap despite admitting it is having difficulty due to lowering the research and development budget.
Exclusive details on AMD's Zen
No more shared FPU per two cores
Our well informed industry sources have shared a few more details about the AMD's 2016 Zen cores and not it appears that the architecture won't use the shared FPU like Bulldozer.