Job’s Mob looks at Chipzilla’s fabs for low-end Macs and iPads

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might let Troubled Chipzilla cook up some of its future M-series chips, which would be a curious twist in their long and occasionally frosty relationship.

Faster 8-core with 3D V-Cache

AMD has surprisingly listed the rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D SKU on its driver website, confirming one of the two Zen 5 SKUs that were spotted earlier. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core/16-thread SKU with a 4.7GHz clock and 120W TDP.

Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at

Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.

Pitches ROCm as the antidote to Nvidia’s walled garden

AMD reckons it can win over AI developers by offering an open software ecosystem rather than locking everything behind a proprietary moat.

Insists it has done nothing wrong as talent wars flare up

Troubled Chipzilla is digging in after TSMC accused one of its newly hired vice presidents of breaching a nondisclosure agreement.

HYPERRAM is the new cheap and cheerful memory fix

Infineon decided to wave a flag today by saying AMD has put its 64 Mb HYPERRAM memory and matching controller IP through their paces for the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA SCU35 Evaluation Kit.

Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

The long-teased graphics tech is meant to land on 10 December

The next-gen FidelityFX update FSR Redstone will start rolling out from 10 December.

Wall Street still fears a bubble

The cocaine-nose jobs of Wall Street are not buying Nvidia's stellar results, and still fear that all that investment in AI is a bubble.

Amazon Black Friday deal

Amazon has pushed down the price for AMD's Radeon RX 9060XT 16GB from the usual $399.99, down to $339.98.