AMD

Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge

Analysis What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold?

Edge + IoT27 Jun 2022 | 14

AMD refreshes Ryzen Embedded line with R2000 series

Embedded World The target? Thin clients and industrial devices – with new SoC family running up to 4 independent displays

Systems21 Jun 2022 | 3

AMD to end Threadripper Pro 5000 drought for non-Lenovo PCs

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 18

Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project

Cancelled the K12 CPU? Big mistake. Huge, says Jim Keller

Systems20 Jun 2022 | 18

AMD bests Intel in cloud CPU performance study

Overall price-performance in Big 3 hyperscalers a dead heat, says CockroachDB

Systems16 Jun 2022 |

Atos, UK government reach settlement on $1 billion Met Office supercomputer dispute

Exclusive It is sure a lot of money to be able to say confidently: 'It's going to rain'

Legal14 Jun 2022 | 41

AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU, software plans

Analysis Chip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud

Systems13 Jun 2022 | 2

AMD touts big datacenter, AI ambitions in CPU-GPU roadmap

Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push

On-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 2

Semiconductor industry growth to slow in 2022, warns IDC

Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity'

Systems09 Jun 2022 | 5

Intel says Sapphire Rapids CPU delay will help AMD catch up

Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits

Systems08 Jun 2022 | 6

Multiplatform Linux kernel 'pretty much done' says Linus Torvalds

Debuts version 5.19rc1, which includes HPE's next-gen server ASIC and much more

OSes06 Jun 2022 | 11

Arista's latest switches pack AMD Xilinx FPGAs to fuel high-frequency traders

Do you feel the need? The need for speed?

Systems02 Jun 2022 | 3

AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share

Analysis Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system

HPC01 Jun 2022 | 7

All-AMD US Frontier supercomputer ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500

Exascale beast's test system also claims top spot in the Green500

HPC30 May 2022 | 23

Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training

Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia

AI + ML26 May 2022 |

AMD reveals 5nm Ryzen 7000 powered by Zen 4 cores

AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow

Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 15

Linus Torvalds debuts 'boring old plain' Linux kernel 5.18

Adds 'feature activation' for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn't saying what that means

OSes23 May 2022 | 36

Ryzen shines with remote management on Qualcomm Wi-Fi kit

Working to compete with Intel as FastConnect comes to AMD-processor-powered PCs

Systems19 May 2022 |

AMD claims its GPUs beat Nvidia on performance per dollar

* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot

Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 8

RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete

Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money

Columnists16 May 2022 | 57

How CXL may change the datacenter as we know it

Interview Bye-bye bottlenecks. Hello composable infrastructure?

Systems16 May 2022 | 6

AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen

Systems13 May 2022 | 17

How Intel and AMD hope to win the cloud security game

Analysis Team Xeon reveals 'Trust-as-a-Service' while Google Cloud details deeper ties with Team Zen

PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 5

AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders

Comment Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency

AI + ML09 May 2022 | 3

Concerned about cloud costs? Have you tried using newer virtual machines?

Study confirms AWS prices go down as you upgrade host CPU family, not up – and not so fast, GPU users

PaaS + IaaS04 May 2022 | 1

AMD to offer CPUs with Xilinx AI engine in 2023

And unlike Intel, Zen giant saw boom in PC land, thanks to focus on high-end parts

AI + ML04 May 2022 |

AMD hasn't forgotten about that ambitious 2025 energy efficiency goal it promised

Beware, a lot can happen in three years – speaking from experience

HPC04 May 2022 | 1

Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers

Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now?

Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5

AMD: Our Epyc CPUs helped Mercedes win F1 Constructors' Championship

Case study in why price-performance matters in server chips

Systems20 Apr 2022 | 12

Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD

First business chips from AMD to include Microsoft's Pluton security processor, stock is available says chip biz

Systems19 Apr 2022 | 21

Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine

Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state

Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18

AMD Threadripper CPU supply severely low, PC makers say

Special report Some fear they'll lose workstation sales to Lenovo, AMD's exclusive launch partner for the T Pro 5000

Systems08 Apr 2022 | 15

AMD: Pensando gives us better-than-AWS networking tech to rule the cloud

Equip Amazon rivals with flexible networking chips? Sounds Epyc

Networks07 Apr 2022 | 2

Intel suspends all operations in Russia weeks after halting chip shipments

Some 1,200 of chipmaker's employees based in Russia, a country accounting for 0.1% of global chip sales in 2021

Systems06 Apr 2022 | 51

Intel CEO made $178m in first 10 months, AMD CEO got a $2m pay rise

Pat Gelsinger won't unlock most of that unless Xeon giant's stock goes sky high

Systems04 Apr 2022 | 10

AMD to acquire SmartNIC and networking firm Pensando for $1.9 billion

Strengthens SDN smarts for hyperscalers, small clouds, and maybe 5G, gives Xilinx some work too

Networks04 Apr 2022 | 5

Intel counters AMD’s big-cache PC chip with 5.5GHz 16-core rival

CPU clock versus cache

Personal Tech28 Mar 2022 | 55

US to rev fastest supercomputer with powerful test system

'Tiny' testbed already crushes Oak Ridge's past supercomputers

HPC28 Mar 2022 | 2

Epyc move: Micron shifts high-demand chip design apps to AMD

Memory and storage maker skips over Intel this time

Systems21 Mar 2022 | 3

AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s

Refreshed third-gen 'Milan-X' sports 3D vertical L3 memory

Systems21 Mar 2022 | 24

Linux 5.17 debuts after 'very calm' extra week of work

Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama

OSes20 Mar 2022 | 11

AlmaLinux OS Foundation welcomes AMD to the fold

New signups bring skills in mainframes, IT services, hosting in quest for RHEL parity

OSes18 Mar 2022 | 5

AMD to Intel: Take our GPU talent? Two can play that game

Mike Burrows exits Chipzilla to lead advanced graphics at Radeon biz

Systems16 Mar 2022 | 7

AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens

Sub-$299 Zen 3 desktop chips throw wrench into Intel wheelhouse

Systems15 Mar 2022 | 15

Another data-leaking Spectre bug found, smashes Intel, Arm defenses

Analysis Your processor design fell off the vulnerability tree and hit every branch on the way down

Security15 Mar 2022 | 21

Linus Torvalds ponders limits of automation as kernel release delayed

Spectre-related weakness has made an eighth release candidate necessary

OSes14 Mar 2022 | 20

AMD reminds everyone it's still doing Threadrippers

Latest Pro 5000 WX series good for AI, engineering, maybe metaverse?

Personal Tech08 Mar 2022 | 15

AMD confirms Ryzen chips' stuttering performance on Windows 10, 11

Workarounds today and fixes coming soon for fTPM tech

Personal Tech08 Mar 2022 | 53

AMD, DoiT to help Google Cloud customers optimize for Epyc

Pair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen

PaaS + IaaS17 Feb 2022 | 3

AMD, Xilinx complete world's biggest semiconductor merger thanks to stock boom

The effect of Ryzen share prices

On-Prem14 Feb 2022 | 5

AMD confirms Xilinx merger approved by regulators

While Nvidia loses an Arm, this acquisition has legs

Systems10 Feb 2022 | 5

Another Massive Display as AMD hails 'outstanding' 2021, teases Genoa and Bergamo chips

Semiconductor giant sees growth across the board

Systems02 Feb 2022 | 3

FPGA now means Finally, PRC Grants Approval: China OKs AMD's $35bn Xilinx buy

hurdles <= hurdles - 1;

Networks27 Jan 2022 | 5

Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh?

On-Prem27 Jan 2022 | 42

Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips

Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else

AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 21

For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'

Security20 Jan 2022 | 59