Ryzen 4000 mobile turning up in product listings
Published in PC Hardware


Should be here soon

AMD's 7nm mobile Ryzen 4000 mobile processors are showing up in product listings on Amazon for multiple Asus gaming laptops in China and Canada.

AMD confirms there won't be anymore reference blower fans
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At least not on consumer/gamer graphics cards

AMD has now confirmed that it has finally said goodbye to reference blower-style fans for consumer/gamer Radeon graphics cards, and has even teased a possible future design during its recent Financial Analyst Day 2020.

Boffins find that AMD processors leak a bit
Published in News


Happens when you get older

A new paper released by the Graz University of Technology details two new "Take A Way" attacks, Collide+Probe and Load+Reload, that can leak secret data from AMD processors by manipulating the L1D cache predictor.

AMD talks about Big Navi’s roadmap
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 09 March 2020 12:51

AMD talks about Big Navi’s roadmap


Sorry we are not supposed to call it that

AMD told the assembled throngs at its Financial Analyst Day more details about Big Navi, but please never call it that again.

AMD updates its CPU and GPU roadmaps
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 06 March 2020 00:35

AMD updates its CPU and GPU roadmaps


Zen 3 on track and RDNA 2 comes with NAVI 2X

AMD's CEO and President, Dr. Lisa Su, has kicked off AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020 talking about the progress AMD made in the last few years as well as what we can expect from the company in future, including an updated CPU and GPU roadmaps with Zen 3, Zen 4, as well as RDNA 2, and RDNA 3.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets 2 exaflop performance
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AMD EPYC and HPE  looking after US nukes

AMD and HPE have announced with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that El Capitan, the upcoming exascale-class supercomputer, will have more than 2 exaflops of double precision performance powered by next generation AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs.

Intel says it will catch up with AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:30

Intel says it will catch up with AMD


Promises Full Memory Encryption in upcoming CPUs

Chipzilla says it is planning to bring full memory encryption to future CPUs, something which indicates that it has decided to play catch-up with AMD.

Microsoft shares more Xbox Series X console details
Published in Gaming


12 TFLOPs from AMD RDNA 2 GPU and custom AMD Zen 2-based CPU

Microsoft has revealed a few more details about its new Xbox Series X gaming console, including details about the GPU, CPU, new features, and backward compatibility.

Cloudflare snubs Intel and moves to AMD
Published in News
Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:14

Cloudflare snubs Intel and moves to AMD


Epyc  Vote of confidence

Cloudflare has snubbed Chipzilla's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162’s and is moving to a 48-core single socket AMD EPYC 7642.

AMD expands Ryzen Embedded range
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:40

AMD expands Ryzen Embedded range


Two new R1000 low-power processors

AMD has expected its Ryzen Embedded range with two new R1000 low-power processors that provide customers with a new TDP range of 6-0 watts.