AMD

'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1

Kernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2

OSes11 Dec 2022 | 4

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years

'We're going to have lower power, but it's going to cost more' says chipmaker's CTO

Systems02 Dec 2022 | 12

Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs

Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds

Databases01 Dec 2022 |

AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path

Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework

HPC30 Nov 2022 |

GPU shipments saw biggest nosedive since noughties recession

A sign of the computer industry’s sad state, but at least there’s supply!

Systems23 Nov 2022 | 13

Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?

Systems21 Nov 2022 | 17

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard'

Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59

Nvidia H100-based Henri supercomputer tests AMD’s claim on Green500

SC22 In this race it's all about flops per watts

HPC17 Nov 2022 | 1

Chips in space: Reprogrammable AMD AI SoC cleared for liftoff

Team Red believes chip will allow AI inferencing to proliferate in the cosmos

Systems15 Nov 2022 | 2

SiPearl works with AMD on GPU support for Arm HPC chip

Duo also hope to support development of exascale computing at research institutions

Systems15 Nov 2022 |

How AMD, Intel, Nvidia are keeping their cores from starving

Analysis Chips are only as fast as the memory that feeds them

Systems14 Nov 2022 | 2

Aurora delays keep Frontier supercomputer in #1 spot on Top500

SC22 EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system

HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1

AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine

Systems10 Nov 2022 | 5

AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim

Systems10 Nov 2022 |

HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers

Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first

HPC09 Nov 2022 |

Supermicro bets on next-gen chips to carry it through economic downturn

Analysis Customers just love taking risks on pricey new tech, right?

Systems06 Nov 2022 |

AMD’s latest, greatest Radeon graphics card $600 cheaper than Nvidia’s top RTX 4090

Chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for

Personal Tech03 Nov 2022 | 20

AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000

They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter

Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10

Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

AMD's Epyc 4 will likely beat Intel Sapphire Rapids to market

HPE to start shipping Genoa-equipped systems in December – Intel's 4th-gen Xeons eventually

Systems01 Nov 2022 | 7

TSMC wants to unleash a flood of chiplet designs with 3DFabric Alliance

Good for AMD and Apple? Now let's make it easier for everyone, Taiwanese chipmaker says

Systems28 Oct 2022 |

AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory

There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too

On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |

PC shipments fall at fastest rate ever as businesses slam wallets shut

More analysts emerge to talk up hefty double digit shrink in unit volumes

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 25

The new GPU world order is beginning to take shape

Comment As Nvidia hikes prices, Intel is only too happy to profit from your discontent, and AMD remains a wild card

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 53

Because you've all stopped buying PCs, AMD's wiped $1b+ off expected sales

Q3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St

Personal Tech07 Oct 2022 | 10

AMD's Ryzen V3000 goes head to head with Intel's embedded chips on power, oomph

House of Zen just needs to convince machine makers to use them

Systems28 Sep 2022 | 1

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years

OSes27 Sep 2022 | 80

Ethereum Merge signals end of GPU shortage, but not necessarily high prices

Analysis What a mine field

Personal Tech24 Sep 2022 | 12

Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 – but it's the 4080 to watch out for

GTC And don't forget AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are right around the corner

Personal Tech20 Sep 2022 | 15

Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores

Personal Tech20 Sep 2022 | 14

Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines

Systems12 Sep 2022 | 59

AMD admits its Ryzen mobile naming scheme is a mess, promises to clean it up

Finding Zen just got a little easier

Personal Tech07 Sep 2022 | 9

US bars Nvidia and AMD from selling AI-centric accelerators to China and Russia

Updated Makes Nv tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone

Systems01 Sep 2022 | 6

What are Nvidia and AMD doing getting involved with SmartNICs and VMware?

VMware Explore A gentle primer on these chip giants' accelerators – and your essential guide to the conference so far

Networks31 Aug 2022 | 1

AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

Prices start at $300, you'll also need a new motherboard, RAM, etc

Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 45

AMD smartNICs to meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm cores

Hot Chips Why choose one when you can use them all?

Networks27 Aug 2022 | 7

AMD has a lot riding on its 5nm Ryzen 7000 CPUs. And so here begins the hype

You'll need a new motherboard, RAM, beefier PSU. But hey, at least GPUs are cheap again

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 16

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update

OSes15 Aug 2022 | 16

APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets

AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying

Security09 Aug 2022 | 1

Lenovo updates ThinkPad mobile workstations with AMD variants

SIGGRAPH 2022: Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 only desktop workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen Threadripper

Personal Tech09 Aug 2022 | 8

Intel challenges Nvidia, AMD with trio of workstation GPUs

For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding

Systems09 Aug 2022 | 13

Specs leak of 5.7GHz AMD Ryzen 7000 chips with double the L2 cache

These might be the 5nm Zen 4 desktop processors due to land this quarter

Personal Tech04 Aug 2022 | 16

Why you should start paying attention to CXL now

The next server you buy will support it, but what's it good for?

Networks04 Aug 2022 | 19

AMD boasts of record sales, says 5nm Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 coming this quarter

When Intel said demand was down, did it mean just for its chips?

On-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 13

This credit card-sized PC board can use an Intel Core i7

Or an eight-core AMD Ryzen. Not made for personal use, but what's stopping you?

On-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 83

Intel, other chipmakers boost lobbying spend to get CHIPS Act passed

How much did Intel fork out last quarter? Records were broken

Systems21 Jul 2022 | 4

Memory constrained? Amazon and AMD now offer 1.5TB VMs

Or about two and a half Chrome tabs

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 4

Torvalds: Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw

But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release

OSes17 Jul 2022 | 5

Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking 'Retbleed' Spectre variant

Speculative execution side-channels continue to haunt silicon world

Research12 Jul 2022 | 8

What do you mean your exaflop is better than mine?

Comment Gaming the system was fine for a while, now it's time to get precise about precision

HPC06 Jul 2022 | 15

AMD targeted by RansomHouse, attackers claim to have '450Gb' in stolen data

Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz files

Cyber-crime28 Jun 2022 | 7

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 |