AMD’s RX 9070 XT clobbers RTX 5080 in sales
Published in Graphics


RDNA 4 continues steamrolling as NVIDIA struggles with stock, pricing

AMD's RDNA 4 cards are on an absolute tear, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT outselling NVIDIA’s RTX 5080 by a staggering ten to one margin at MindFactory — one of the EU’s biggest component retailers.

Intel sells 51 percent of Altera
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 17:04

Intel sells 51 percent of Altera


Tan's first big move

Intel Corporation's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan's first big move was to sell 51 percent of Altera to SilverLake at an $8.75 billion valuation. The company still retains 49 percent. Intel acquired Altera in 2015 for approximately $16.7 billion.

AMD Venice 2nm TSMC taped out
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 16:57

AMD Venice 2nm TSMC taped out


EPYC 5th Gen 3nm manufacturing in TSMC Arizona

AMD has made an important announcement regarding its EPYC data center CPUs. The company confirmed the successful tape-out of its CPU codenamed "Venice," which is part of the EPYC line.

AMD bags new supercomputing record
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Monday, 14 April 2025 10:45

AMD bags new supercomputing record


Frontier supercomputer flexes Instinct MI250X muscle

AMD ran a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using its Instinct MI250X accelerators and EPYC processors on the Frontier supercomputer, slicing runtimes from nearly 40 hours to just 90 minutes -- more than 25 times faster.

AMD's Ryzen 8000HX series is just a reheated Dragon Range
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Barely boosted Zen 4 chips stumble into RTX 50-powered gaming laptops

As next-gen graphics cards crash into the gaming world with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball, AMD’s CPU follow-up is more of a polite cough. The new Ryzen 8000HX series—officially part of the so-called "Dragon Range Refresh"—has landed, and it's hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu.

Google Cloud dives deeper into AMD
Published in Cloud
Friday, 11 April 2025 11:39

Google Cloud dives deeper into AMD


Zen 5 power lands in C4D and H4D machines for HPC and AI

Google Cloud has thrown its lot further in with AMD, unveiling C4D and H4D virtual machines packed with 5th Gen EPYC silicon aimed at boosting performance across cloud workloads.

AMD admits Ryzen 9800X3D meltdown mess
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Friday, 11 April 2025 09:45

AMD admits Ryzen 9800X3D meltdown mess


Sounds of PR silence

After more than 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors keeled over, mostly while paired with ASRock boards, AMD has finally broken its vow of silence—only to point fingers at “memory compatibility.”

AMD revs up Dragon Range
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 10 April 2025 11:04

AMD revs up Dragon Range


New CPUs promise desktop-class punch and RDNA 2 graphics on the go

AMD’s Dragon Range is breathing fire again. The chipmaker has just unleashed its Ryzen 8000HX mobility CPUs — a refresh of the 7000HX lineup — aimed squarely at high-end gaming laptops and mobile workstations.

Powercolor officially unveils Red Devil Spectral White RX 9070 XT graphics card
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Red Devil in Spectral White color option

PowerColor has introduced the latest Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards, the Red Devil Spectral White AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB. This limited edition version will be coming in a full-white color scheme, including the PCB, shroud, backplate, and even the I/O shield, as well as packing all the high-end features of the Red Devil series. 

Investor bets big on AMD’s AI ‘second place’
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Inference, not training, may be AMD’s golden ticket

AMD might be down 50 per cent in six months, but investor Yiannis Zourmpanos (pictured) is doubling down, insisting the market’s missing the point. While the chipmaker continues to trail Nvidia, he says the prize isn’t in training gargantuan AI models—it’s in running them.