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The annual Computex computer expo kicks off in Taepei this weekend. And this year’s show is shaping up to be the most packed in years. Computex rivals CES for the most important PC trade show of the year, and in most years is attended by not only the numerous local Taiwanese firms (Asus, MSI, ASRock, and others), but the major chip developers have been increasing their own presence as well. These days, while CES itself tends to land more high-profile announcements, in recent years it’s been Computex that has delivered on more substantial announcements. This is largely because tech firms have aligned their product schedules to roll out near gear in the second half of the year, when retail sales are stronger due to the...
Computex 2022: ASUS Unveils ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme Motherboard for Ryzen 7000
Following on from AMD's official announcement during Computex 2022 that its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000 series of processors will land sometime in Q4 2022, ASUS has lifted the lid...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/24/2022
AMD Announces Mendocino APU: 6nm Mainstream Mobile Zen 2 Laptop Chip Coming In Q4
Alongside their big desktop update for later in the year, AMD is also using this year’s Computex to announce an update to the low-end segment of their mobile lineup...
33 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced: 16 Cores of Zen 4, Plus PCIe 5 and DDR5 for Socket AM5, Coming This Fall
During the AMD Keynote at Computex 2022, its CEO, Dr. Lisa Su officially unveiled their next generation of Ryzen processors and the successor to the highly successful Ryzen 5000...
333 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/23/2022
AMD Prepares New "Raise The Game" Bundle - Rushing to Counter Falling Card Prices
As retail video card prices drop back down to more normal prices following 18 months of cryptocurrency-fueled madness, AMD and its partners are quickly finding themselves with a new...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/12/2022
AMD Releases Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, and 6650 XT: A Bit More Speed For Spring
AMD this morning is taking the wraps off a trio of new Radeon RX 6000 series video cards to round out its product stack. Aimed at everything from the...
33 by Ryan Smith on 5/10/2022
AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 C-Series For High-End Chromebooks
In September 2020, AMD released its Ryzen 3000 C-series for Chromebooks, a line up of budget-priced chips based on the 12nm Picasso (Ryzen+) architecture that featured up to 4...
40 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/5/2022
AMD Releases Instinct MI210 Accelerator: CDNA 2 On a PCIe Card
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game...
39 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022
AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache: EPYC 7003 Up to 64 Cores and 768 MB L3 Cache
There's been a lot of focus on how both Intel and AMD are planning for the future in packaging their dies to increase overall performance and mitigate higher manufacturing...
58 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/21/2022
AMD Teases FSR 2.0: Temporal Upscaling Tech for Games Coming in Q2
Alongside their spring driver update, AMD this morning is also unveiling the first nugget of information about the next generation of their FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology. Dubbed FSR...
46 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
AMD Releases Adrenalin Software Spring 2022 Update: Adds RSR Upscaling and More
AMD this morning is releasing the awaited spring update to their AMD Software Adrenalin Edition suite for their GPUs. First unveiled back in January as part of AMD’s keynote...
12 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D Launches April 20th, Plus 6 New Low & Mid-Range Ryzen Chips
Since the launch of AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 desktop processors in late 2020, the company’s retail desktop chip offerings have been rather static. With AMD facing heavy demand...
98 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 3/15/2022
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series: Zen 3 For OEM Workstations
In 2020, AMD released a new series of workstation-focused processors under its Threadripper umbrella, aptly named the Threadripper Pro series. These chips were essentially true workstation versions of AMD's...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/8/2022
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 OLED Review: For The Creator In All Of Us
ASUS has been building notebooks for the creator market for several years now, and today we are looking at the Vivobook Pro 15 OLED. The name kind of gives...
34 by Brett Howse on 3/7/2022
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2022
AMD's Ryzen 9 6900HS Rembrandt Benchmarked: Zen3+ Power and Performance Scaling
Earlier this year, AMD announced an update to its mobile processor line that we weren’t expecting quite so soon. The company updated its Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors, which are...
92 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/1/2022
Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2022
AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold
As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in...
26 by Ryan Smith on 2/1/2022
Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2022
Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT, Starring Navi 24
Following its announcement back at CES, today AMD is formally launching the entry-level member of its Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards: the Radeon RX 6500 XT. Based...
101 by Ryan Smith on 1/19/2022
ASRock Unveils DeskMeet SFF PC Platform with Intel B660 / AMD X300 Chipsets
ASRock has been at the forefront of the small form-factor (SFF) PC revolution right from the Sandy Bridge days. Starting with the Core HT series in the early 2010s...
17 by Ganesh T S on 1/18/2022
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