
AMD releases third quarter 2023 financial results
Both revenue and gross margin are up
AMD has reported its third quarter 2023 financial results, with steady growth all across the board, mostly driven by demand for Ryzen 7000 series CPUs and record server sales. The biggest winner was the Client segment of the company and AMD is not slowing down, expecting a sequential growth of 9 percent in Q4 2024.

Alan Wake 2 has high PC system requirements
Requires support for Mesh Shaders
Remedy has released official PC system requirements for the upcoming Alan Wake 2 game, and it does not look good, especially since it will require Mesh Shaders, meaning that anything below Nvidia 20-series and AMD RX 6000 series GPUs.

AMD launches new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 and Threadripper 7000 Pro WX-series processors
Workstations with up to 96 cores and 192 threads
AMD has officially announced the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and reintroduced the Threadripper processor lineup to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market with the new Ryzen Threadripper 700 series processors. AMD will offer three Threadripper 7000 series and six Threadripper Pro 7000 WX-series SKUs, reaching up to 64-cores/128-threads and up to 96-cores/192-threads, respectively.

AMD announces new Radeon RX 7900M GPU
Promises desktop-class performance for laptops
AMD has announced its latest flagship laptop GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 7900M. The new laptop GPU will debut on the new AMD Advantage Alienware m18 laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and the Radeon RX 7900M GPU, which is available as of today, starting at $2,799.99.

AMD Anti-Lag+ will get you banned by Valve
And it might be worse than that
It appears that enabling AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature will get you banned in Counter Strike 2. The issue might not be limited to Valve's latest game but also some other competitive games.

AMD latest GPU driver adds Anti-Lag+ to Counter Strike 2
Optimizations for Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Lords of the Fallen and Forza Motorsport
AMD has released its latest version of the AMD Software Adrenalin driver, the v23.10.1 WHQL, which adds optimizations for Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Lords of the Fallen and Forza Motorsport, as well as adds Anti-Lag+ support for Counter Strike 2.

Samsung gives out some Exynos 2400 details
Claims 70 percent faster CPU and Xclipse 940 GPU with AMD RDNA 3
During its own LSI Tech Day 2023 event, Samsung revealed details about its upcoming Exynos 2400 SoC that will most likely power the next Galaxy S24 series smartphones, promising impressive performance figures and confirming AMD RDNA 3 architecture for the Xclipse 940 GPU.

AI Copilot does not play nice with AMD Adrenalin
I am sorry Dave those settings are wrong I will correct them for you without permission
AMD Adrenalin users of are less than happy with Microsoft after it installed AI Copilot into Windows 11 a week ago.

TSMC N3 wafer cost $20K+
Too expensive to use A17 Pro for vanilla iPhone 15
Apple is the first of many who started using the TSMC N3 3nm process for its latest SoC, and even for Apple, it is not easy to eat the manufacturing cost.

Big changes in AMD Client business unit
Rick Bergman, Scott Herkelman, and Saeid Moshkelani SVP and GM of Client are gone
Some of our colleagues jumped to the conclusion Scott Herkelman is getting replaced by Jack Huynh who now works as a Senior Vice President and GM, Computing and Graphics Business Group. This is actually the job that Jack is taking over from Bergman. It is not clear why Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, is imposing such radical changes at this time, but we might have some ideas.