Ryzen 9000 processors suffer the most

A bug in Windows 11 is slowing down AMD’s Ryzen processors during PC gaming sessions, with Ryzen 9000 processors faring slightly worse in some cases.

Beats expectations with record revenue in the Data Center segment

AMD has officially announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2024, reporting a revenue of $5.8 billion with a gross margin of 49 percent. AMD managed to beat expectations, with up to 9 percent higher revenue and 3 points higher gross margin, compared to the last year. The clear winner was its Data Center segment, reporting an increase of 115 percent, driven by AMD Instinct GPU and 4th gen EPYC CPU sales.

Improvements across the board

AMD has introduced Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2), an update to the frame generation technology that includes several improvements and optimizations that should further improve gameplay smoothness, lower latency, and performance improvements on a driver level.

First batch does not meet full quality expectations

AMD has released an official statement confirming that its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors have been delayed. It is not a major delay, and the official launch is now pushed to August 8th.

Ex-Xilinx CEO gets well-earned retirement

AMD has announced that AMD President Victor Peng is retiring effective August 30th.

Coming to RDNA 4 GPUs

Hardware information leaker @Kepler_L2 shared a partially redacted data sheet highlighting the expected ray tracing features coming to RDNA 4 GPUs.

Tame Apple Press is furious

AMD has introduced its latest Ryzen AI chips, built on the new Zen 5 architecture. The company believes these chips outperform Apple's M3 and M3 Pro chips and journalists who defend Apple are angry.

Silo AI to boost AI chip capabilities

AMD has written a $665 million cheque to buy Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI.

Leaked benchmarks appear to clean Chipzilla’s clock

Leaked benchmarks for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9 9900X have surfaced, showcasing the Zen 5 CPU’s single and multicore prowess, and it should be something that Chipzilla should be worried about.

MI300A processor gets deep-dive paper

The boffins behind the AMD Instinct MI300A APU have published their research on the future of “exascale heterogeneous processing.”