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As we stride through the holiday period, the tinsel, glitz, and fanfare of festivities are on their way. And the CPU market looks pretty solid as we round out the end of the year. Intel recently launched their latest 14th Gen Core family to the market, with the Core i9-14900K spearheading things with 6.0 GHz out of the box. While impressive on paper, there's AMD's Ryzen 7000 series to contend with, with competitiveness at the top end of the market scorching right now, and that's not a pun. Stock levels look good on processors at popular retailers such as Amazon and Newegg, and many motherboards/DDR5 memory are floating around to satisfy demand. The CPU market, on the whole, looks strong as we move into...
Asus Preps ROG Ally: A Portable Windows Game Console with Custom Zen 4 + RDNA 3 APU
Asus has begun teasing its own portable game console, the ROG Ally, which the company is positioning as a high-end offering for the handheld PC gaming market. With its...
18 by Anton Shilov on 4/5/2023
AMD Computing & Graphics EVP Rick Bergman to Retire - Jack Huynh Named Replacement
In a brief press release sent out yesterday afternoon, AMD has announced that its executive leadership team is going to see some changes. Rick Bergman, the current executive vice...
1 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2023
The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Review: A Simpler Slice of V-Cache For Gaming
In February, AMD released the first parts in its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series. This new line combines AMD's 3D V-Cache packaging with high-performance and highly efficient Zen 4...
53 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/5/2023
AMD Quietly Launches A620 Platform: Sub $100 AM5 Motherboards
AMD has introduced its entry-level A620 platform for AM5 processors. The new platform is designed to power inexpensive PCs that use AMD's CPUs in AM5 packaging based on the...
28 by Anton Shilov on 4/4/2023
AMD: Ryzen Mobile 7040HS “Phoenix” Laptops Delayed Until April
For everyone who has been eagerly waiting for the first laptops incorporating AMD’s monolithic Zen 4 mobile CPU, AMD sends word on a Friday afternoon that you’ll be waiting...
57 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2023
AMD Announces Zen 4 EPYC Embedded 9004 Series: Up to 96 Cores With 1P and 2P Solutions
While AMD's portfolio of embedded products doesn't receive quite as much attention as it should, it's not a product lineup to be underestimated. AMD's "fourth platform" covers a surprisingly...
15 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/14/2023
Cadence Delivers Technical Details on GDDR7: 36 Gbps with PAM3 Encoding
When Samsung teased the ongoing development of GDDR7 memory last October, the company did not disclose any other technical details of the incoming specification. But Cadence recently introduced the...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2023
AMD Announces The Last of Us Part 1 Game Bundle For Radeon RX 6000 & 7000 Video Cards
The Last of Us Part 1, a remaster of the original Playstation-hit, is making its way to the PC on March 28. To celebrate the feat or to let...
7 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023
The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor
This week is the long-awaited launch of AMD's second generation of V-Cache equipped consumer chips, the Ryzen 7000X3D family. Aimed primarily at gamers, tomorrow morning AMD will be releasing...
123 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/27/2023
ASRock Industrial's 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series Brings Zen 3+ and USB4 40Gbps to UCFF Systems
ASRock Industrial's lineup of ultra-compact form-factor machines in the NUC BOX (Intel-based) and 4X4 BOX (AMD-based) series has gained popularity over the last couple of years. Being the first...
40 by Ganesh T S on 2/10/2023
AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D Chips Get Release Dates: February 28th and April 6th, For $699/$599/$449
AMD today has announced the launch date and prices for its eagerly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series processors. Aimed primarily at gamers, the company’s first L3 V-Cache equipped Ryzen 7000...
65 by Ryan Smith on 2/1/2023
The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 Efficiency at 65 Watts
In Q3 of last year, AMD released the first CPUs based on its highly anticipated Zen 4 architecture. Not only did their Ryzen 7000 parts raise the bar in...
55 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/9/2023
A Lighter Touch: Exploring CPU Power Scaling On Core i9-13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X
One of the biggest running gags on social media and Reddit is how hot and power hungry CPUs have become over the years. Whereas at one time flagship x86...
61 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2023
CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23
Alongside AMD’s widely expected client product announcements this evening for desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and mobile GPUs, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su also had a surprise up her sleeve...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2023
AMD Unveils Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 7900X3D, and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Up to 128 MB of L3 Cache And 5.7 GHz Boost
During Computex 22, AMD showcased its updated CPU roadmap going through 2024, which yielded some exciting propositions to the desktop processor market. One of those products highlighted was a...
48 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/4/2023
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 Processors: Zen 4 at 65 W
During its keynote at CES 2023, Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, announced three new desktop processors based on its Zen 4 microarchitecture, the Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/4/2023
AMD Announces Ryzen Mobile 7045 HX-Series CPUs, Up to 16-Cores and 5.4 GHz for Laptops
While many companies such as Razer offer 'desktop' replacements in the form of very high-end and powerful gaming laptops, the silicon that goes into them not only needs to...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/4/2023
AMD Lays Out 2023 Ryzen Mobile 7000 CPUs: Top-to-Bottom Updates, New Zen 4 'Phoenix' CPU Takes Point
This year’s CES has turned out to be a laptop-centric event in the PC space, and no farther do you have to look for proof of that than AMD’s...
46 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2023
The AMD CES 2023 Keynote Live Blog (6:30pm PT/02:30 UTC)
CES keynote season continues this week with the second major PC-centric keynote of the event, being held by AMD. Helmed as always by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD is...
7 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2023
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT: First RDNA 3 Parts To Hit Shelves in December
With AMD’s first-wave of Zen 4 CPUs now in the books with the Ryzen 7000 series, the consumer arm of AMD is now shifting its attention over to its...
197 by Ryan Smith on 11/3/2022
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