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During their opening keynote at Computex 2024, AMD announced their intention to launch a pair of new Ryzen 5000 processors for their legacy AM4 platform. The new chips, both getting the XT suffix, will be the Ryzen 9 5900XT, a 16 core Zen 3 part, while the Ryzen 7 5800XT will be an 8 core Zen 3. The new chips are intended to underscore AMD's ongoing commitment to supporting their consumer platforms over several years. And while the specification changes are rather minor overall – the Zen 3 CPU architecture has long since been taken as far as it can reasonable go – it does give AMD a chance to refresh the platform by slinging hardware at new price points. AMD did something very similar...

Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Intel's New Architecture Details Revealed

UPDATED. Just after Intel's opening keynote of the conference, they have provided us with some more detailed information on their new microprocessor architecture. Features include a 14-stage pipeline...

26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2005

Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Intel Introduces new Microprocessor Architecture

IDF has begun, and Intel kicks it off with a formal announcement of their brand new 65nm processors based on a unified architecture.

34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2005

Industry Update - Q2-2005: Chipset wars, AMD's growing market share and more...

There's a lot of updating to do on the CPU, chipset, motherboard and memory markets based on our findings at this year's Computex in Taiwan.

45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/13/2005

Computex 2005 - Looking Ahead

More companies will make Crossfire, DDR2-1000 Memory, Abit emerges from financial chaos, Foxconn moves into AMD market, and more.

20 by Wesley Fink on 6/10/2005

Apple's Move to x86: More Questions Answered

We provide our thoughts on Apple's switch and shed some more light on your questions.

56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2005

WWDC 2005 - Apple to Move to Intel Processors in 2006

It's true. Starting in 2006, Apple will begin transitioning to Intel processors. We have the full story from today's keynote.

65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2005

Computex 2005 - Day 3 Tidbits

Even a minor earthquake won't stop us from posting Computex coverage! Inside, we have a look at the case, storage and display booths, along with some tidbits from...

35 by Kristopher Kubicki on 6/1/2005

Computex 2005 Day 2 - ULi's new Athlon 64 Chipset, G70, CrossFire & more

We got to benchmark ULi's new Athlon 64 chipset, got more time with NVIDIA's G70, CrossFire motherboards, cooling at Computex and tons of motherboards from the show.

53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2005

Computex 2005 Day 1 - ATI R520 Sighting, NVIDIA's new Chipset

We've seen ATI's R520 running, NVIDIA's new C51G running, and walls upon walls of motherboards and servers.

37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2005

Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage: NVIDIA's G70, Athlon 64 BTX and more

With the show a day away from starting, we've already seen the first AMD BTX motherboard, a number of NVIDIA G70 graphics cards, an Intel motherboard that can be...

80 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2005

Xbox 360 - Up Close & Personal with Live, the Console and the Wireless Controller

Although information about the next-gen consoles was limited, we were able to get some time with the new Xbox Live, the actual console itself and the new wireless controller...

33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/20/2005

E3 2005 - Day 2: More Details Emerge on Console GPUs

Details on NVIDIA's RSX and ATI's Xbox 360 GPU are scarce, but we did our best to gather details that have yet to be published.

22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/19/2005

E3 2005 - Day 1: The Xbox 360 Update

Our first few hours of this year's E3 were spent searching for the Xbox 360...

31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/18/2005

Sony Introduces Playstation 3, to launch in 2006

Sony introduced the Playstation 3 today...and wow

71 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/16/2005

WinHEC 2005: Coverage Wrap

We wrap up our coverage with some of the cooler things from the expo floor, a little more on Longhorn, and some Avalon and WGF information.

17 by Derek Wilson & Jarred Walton on 4/29/2005

WinHEC 2005: Day 2

The second day of WinHEC 2005 coverage brings more information on some of the topics touched on for day 1 as well as an historical look at Micorosoft.

22 by Derek Wilson & Jarred Walton on 4/27/2005

WinHEC 2005 - Keynote and Day 1

Welcome to the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2005. We've got opening keynote and day one coverage hot off the presses. Windows x64 is launched and Longhorn is on the horizon.

36 by Derek Wilson & Jarred Walton on 4/26/2005

The Great Texas Overclocking Competition

Mix OPPainter, Macci, Fugger, and tons of exotic phase-change and liquid nitrogen cooling and you have ATI's Overclocking Competition at the Texas Gaming Festival.

31 by Wesley Fink on 3/9/2005

IDF Spring 2005 - Predicting Future CPU Architecture Trends

Wondering what future CPUs will look like and work like? We've gathered a bunch of ideas based on what's been disclosed at this year's Spring IDF.

22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/3/2005

IDF Spring 2005 - Day 3: Justin Rattner's Keynote, Predicting the Future

Justin Rattner lays out Intel's vision for the future with Platform 2015.

15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/3/2005

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