Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation

AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.

Granite Rapids-WS brings 86 cores and 4.8GHz boost to workstation fight

Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz.

Chiplet design and DDR5 support to take on EPYC

Zhaoxin has unleashed its KH-50000 server CPUs, and the company is pitching them as a serious step up for China’s domestic server market.

Pins its hopes on 18A process

Intel's upcoming Panther Lake mobile CPUs are set to debut in late 2025, with high-volume production in early 2026, and they’ll be the first proper outing for the company’s much talked-about18A node.

Both sides rejigging their offerings

Nvidia and AMD are frantically revising their next-gen AI designs in an effort to out-muscle each other, with power budgets and memory bandwidth figures spiralling upwards.

Latest slides take aim at Ryzen 9000 

Troubled Chipzilla has lined up its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs against AMD’s Ryzen 9000 and declared game on, complete with bar charts and brave talk.

Radeon 9000, 7000 and Ryzen AI kit now less useless 

AMD has delivered on its Computex 2025 promise to make PyTorch work on Windows for consumer GPUs and APUs.

Another AM4 chip

It appears that the Ryzen 5 5600F is not the only new AM4 CPU that could be coming from AMD, as yet another has been spotted in China, a quad-core Ryzen 3 5100.

AMD's graphics card for professional AI at the edge

ASUS has now officially announced the Turbo Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics, a 32GB graphics card for AI developers and professionals. Announced back in July, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 is based on Navi 48 GPU, with 64 Compute Units and 128 AI Accelerators, and 32GB of GDDR6 memory.

Record 35 per cent growth as Microsoft forces mass upgrades

The PC gaming hardware market will balloon by 35 per cent in 2025, hitting $44.5 billion in sales, according to number crunchers at Jon Peddie Research.