Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest

AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

16-pin connectors proving they’re a fire hazard

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT has entered the melting connector hall of shame after a user on Reddit managed to cook their 16-pin power cable trying to run an ASRock Taichi OC model on a questionable PSU setup.

Six Zen 4 cores and Radeon 7600 GPU hint at proper pc-class gaming box

Valve might finally be getting serious about console-grade gaming, if a freshly leaked Geekbench listing is anything to go by.

SDK update locks features behind DLLS

AMD had a bit of a senior moment this week when it accidentally dumped the FSR 4 source code on GitHub before yanking it offline when it realised they’d left the safe open.

Motherboard makers told to clear shelves before October

AMD has officially pulled the plug on its B650 and B650E chipsets, ordering partners to shift production to the newer B850 line.

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.