Ahead of Intel's upcoming launch

AMD's Ryzen 5000 series have started to get decent price cuts across the range, with the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X currently selling for $749.

RX 6600 XT, DDR5 memory, and XMP 3.0 as well

CPUID has updated its CPU-Z information software adding support for Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, Z6xx platform, Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, DDR5 memory, and XMP 3.0.

You will not be constricted to buy an AMD APU any more

Leaked documents, AMD's next family of processors, based on the Zen4 architecture, will all feature iGPUs as part of the design according to Hexus.

New driver

AMD released a driver update that significantly improves the 4K performance of its RDNA 2 graphics cards.

62.8 trillion digits

Switzerland's University of Applied Sciences Graubünden has claimed the world record for calculating Pi, which it says it has computed to 62.8 trillion digits.

If you hit it with some electric shock therapy 

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV) scheme may not be as secure as its claims according to a team of Berlin boffins.

So don’t expect to see it in the shops

The AMD RX 6600 XT will probably not ever make it to a PC near you because it is likely to be snapped up by crypto miners.

Review roundup: High price still plagues the graphics card market

Some reviews for the new AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card have finally gone live and while the performance is solid, the high price tag (even MSRP) leaves a bitter aftertaste. Based on AMD's Navi 23 GPU, the RX 6600 XT packs 2048 Stream Processors and comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a rather narrow 128-bit memory interface.

Ryzen 7 APU and more storage space

Aya Neo has announced an updated version of its handheld console at the Chinajoy 2021 event, giving it a bit more performance with Ryzen 7 4800U APU and more storage space, as well as a slightly higher price tag.

Tame Apple Press insists it should be

AMD has driven the Tame Apple Press wild after it said it was not worried about the fruity cargo cult’s efforts at making its own chip.