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AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals

Comment CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles

Systems12 Sep 2024 | 12

Qualcomm guns for Intel, AMD with cheaper 8-core X chips

It’s set to slice up the AI PC competition at $700-$900

Systems04 Sep 2024 | 5

AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon

Hot Chips Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull

Systems29 Aug 2024 | 8

AMD internal data reportedly offered for sale

Second sensitive info theft claimed by the same crims since June

Cyber-crime26 Aug 2024 | 1

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed

Systems23 Aug 2024 | 37

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series

Systems20 Aug 2024 | 21

DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense

Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours'

HPC16 Aug 2024 | 17

Intel, already adrift, now Armless too

Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares

Offbeat14 Aug 2024 | 9

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

Updated Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this

Patches13 Aug 2024 | 14

Intel's annus horribilis continues as AMD gains ground

Rival making its biggest inroads in server CPU segment

Systems09 Aug 2024 | 8

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead

Software09 Aug 2024 | 10

AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback

Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts

Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 5

AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code

Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight

HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1

AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth

Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists

On-Prem31 Jul 2024 | 1

AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality

Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy?

Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 19

AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores

Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs?

Systems23 Jul 2024 | 2

AMD predicts future AI PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100 tokens per second

Analysis They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth – not to mention capacity – to do it

Systems15 Jul 2024 | 25

AMD spills the beans on Zen 5's 16% IPC gains

Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation

Systems15 Jul 2024 | 13

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD

Systems13 Jul 2024 | 56

AMD buys developer Silo AI in bid to match Nvidia's product range

First it comes for market leader's GPUs ... now it's nibbling at software

AI + ML11 Jul 2024 |

A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111

Hands On A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS

AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 23

Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale

Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now

Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |

AMD says datacenter still king for profit margins amid AI buzz

CFO talks GPU development, strategy and market dynamics at Nasdaq Investor Conference

Systems17 Jun 2024 |

AMD's DC chief happy to work with Intel and others to chip away at Nvidia's AI empire

'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient'

Systems12 Jun 2024 | 3

AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?

Comment As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.'

AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 18

Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows

Kettle We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego

On-Prem08 Jun 2024 | 8

All the datacenter roadmap updates Intel, AMD, Nvidia teased at Computex

Computex We sifted through hours of presentations so you don't have to

Systems05 Jun 2024 |

ASUS creates a substance: Ceraluminum, which fuses aluminum and a ceramic

Computex Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 51

Intel details how Lunar Lake PC chips deliver 120 TOPS

Computex A bigger NPU, faster graphics core in GPU, and on-package memory will do that to a chip

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 2

Intel challenges AMD's Epycs with a 144 e-core Xeon

Computex 128 p-core Xeons to follow in Q3 while the x86 giant will release its 288 e-core monster early next year

On-Prem04 Jun 2024 | 12

Stable Diffusion 3 to debut on June 12

Computex CTO likes what he sees, but craves more memory and compute

AI + ML03 Jun 2024 | 10

We're the Ryzen force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD

Computex Arm, schmarm: New 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su

Systems03 Jun 2024 |

AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200

Computex House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a yearly release cadence

Systems03 Jun 2024 | 1

Nvidia faces local competition for its 'China special' GPUs

Which rival would be so bold as to snatch its business Huawei?

Systems24 May 2024 | 9

AMD's CFO Jean Hu talks CPUs, GPUs and the road ahead

Surging demand, the AI plan, and spinning FPGAs into gold

Systems24 May 2024 | 1

AMD's baby Epycs are nothing more than Ryzens in disguise

Not content with stealing share from Intel at the high-end, the House of Zen is going low

Systems21 May 2024 | 15

Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast

Analysis Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that

HPC13 May 2024 | 4

Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again

ISC With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot

HPC13 May 2024 | 6

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Systems10 May 2024 | 15

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results

Systems01 May 2024 |

Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets

Comment Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims

Systems23 Apr 2024 | 1

Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts

That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work

Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3

AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia

Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs

Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5

China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

There's no Huawei we saw that coming

Networks13 Apr 2024 | 93

AMD to open source Micro Engine Scheduler firmware for Radeon GPUs

And it was all thanks to peer pressure

Systems05 Apr 2024 | 12

How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs

Way to whip that LLaMA's ass

Applications03 Apr 2024 | 3

TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s

Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward

Systems01 Apr 2024 | 15

Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs

Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward

Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2

Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo

Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton

Systems27 Mar 2024 | 7

TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips

AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology

Systems27 Mar 2024 | 3

Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'

Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware

Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9

ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems

Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware

Software25 Mar 2024 | 9

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD

2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech

Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 36

Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant

Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day...

Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8

Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs

Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets

AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6

AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments

You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI

AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1