Intel floods server market with cheap chips
AMD too noisy, we shall destroy them with a flood
Chipzilla has a cunning plan to kick AMD’s better chips out of the server market by targeting its rivals one weakness – supply.
Nvidia could bring RTX 30 Super series in January 2022
Lovelace RTX 40-series comes in Q4 2022
According to the latest rumors, Nvidia might be bringing RTX 30 Super SKUs early next year, lining it up with CES 2022 in January, while Q4 2022, or October, might be the timeframe for RTX 40-series based on Lovelace architecture.
AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs getting decent price cuts
Ahead of Intel's upcoming launch
AMD's Ryzen 5000 series have started to get decent price cuts across the range, with the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X currently selling for $749.
CPU-Z gets support for Alder Lake CPUs
RX 6600 XT, DDR5 memory, and XMP 3.0 as well
CPUID has updated its CPU-Z information software adding support for Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, Z6xx platform, Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, DDR5 memory, and XMP 3.0.
AMD will stick iGPUs under the bonnet of Zen4
You will not be constricted to buy an AMD APU any more
Leaked documents, AMD's next family of processors, based on the Zen4 architecture, will all feature iGPUs as part of the design according to Hexus.
AMD improves 4K performance of its RDNA 2 graphics
New driver
AMD released a driver update that significantly improves the 4K performance of its RDNA 2 graphics cards.
Swiss and AMD claim record for calculating Pi
62.8 trillion digits
Switzerland's University of Applied Sciences Graubünden has claimed the world record for calculating Pi, which it says it has computed to 62.8 trillion digits.
AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualisation is a little insecure
If you hit it with some electric shock therapy
AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV) scheme may not be as secure as its claims according to a team of Berlin boffins.
AMD’s RX 6600 XT latest makes a fine crypto miner
So don’t expect to see it in the shops
The AMD RX 6600 XT will probably not ever make it to a PC near you because it is likely to be snapped up by crypto miners.
Some AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT reviews are out
Review roundup: High price still plagues the graphics card market
Some reviews for the new AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card have finally gone live and while the performance is solid, the high price tag (even MSRP) leaves a bitter aftertaste. Based on AMD's Navi 23 GPU, the RX 6600 XT packs 2048 Stream Processors and comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a rather narrow 128-bit memory interface.