
Valve's Fremont console leak reveals serious AMD firepower
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.

AMD leaks FSR 4 source code
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.

AMD kills off B650 in favour of B850
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.

AMD snips capacitors from Ryzen 7000 CPUs
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.

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
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.

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 shows up in retail
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.

AMD thrashes server market
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 job cuts gut Linux driver support
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.

Tariff chaos gives CPU market a surprise jolt
Panic buying boosts shipments
Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.

Uncle Sam sneaks tracking devices into AI server shipments
Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers
The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.