AMD officially announces its Computex 2016 press event
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Top brass at the event

AMD has now officially announced its press conference that will be held on June 1st, during Computex 2016 show in Taipei, Taiwan, which will be all about Polaris GPU updates as well as AMD's 7th generation A-series APUs.

PC industry goes even lower
Published in AI
Tuesday, 10 May 2016 14:05

PC industry goes even lower


How low can you go?

Beancounters working for Canalys gave added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that PC sales have fallen 13 per cent mroe than the previous year.

First AMD Zen chips may not be quad-core parts
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AMD prepares for IPC race with Intel

In May 2015, we reported that AMD’s first Zen CPUs, launching in Q4 2016, would most likely be quad-core chips based on a presentation slide showing the company’s Zen core units scaling up to four cores with shared L3 cache. According to new information released one year later, this may not be the case and, the company could be preparing to launch eight and six-core variants in a tight efficiency race against Intel's 'Kaby Lake' CPUs.

AMD's Chinese server deal could be x86
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:43

AMD's Chinese server deal could be x86


Lisa Su, AMD's CEO confirms

Ever since AMD announced a Chinesejoint joint server venture, people have been asking around to get a bit more details. Now AMD's CEO has confirmed the technology involved is both x86 and ARM.

Zen to sample in Q2 to key customers
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 25 April 2016 12:30

Zen to sample in Q2 to key customers


Confirmation from AMD CEO

Some good news from AMD – according to the CEO of AMD Lisa Su key customers are getting sample's of the company's Zen x86-based chips in Q2 2016.

AMD stock jumps 52 percent on hope
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 25 April 2016 12:17

AMD stock jumps 52 percent on hope


Hoping that Chinese licensing will make money and VR will perform 

Fudzilla was the first to report that AMD is working with several Chinese partners on a server deal and the recent announcement of its partnership with THATIC was one of the main reasons for a spike in sales.

AMD to announce Sugon deal
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:29

AMD to announce Sugon deal


Joint Venture with China's HPC giant

Our sources are confident that AMD is about to announce a joint venture deal with China-based Sugon company.

Tesla could squeeze Nvidia
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Friday, 01 April 2016 12:14

Tesla could squeeze Nvidia


Recruitment wars

Tesla Motors,’ which has been poaching engineers from Apple and AMD, could be causing a few headaches for Nvidia.

Kaby Lake will square off with Zen
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 03 March 2016 11:46

Kaby Lake will square off with Zen


Pick your sides

Intel's Kaby Lake-series processors will square off against AMD’s great white hope Zen at the end of the fourth quarter.

Intel processors will support Clang
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 22 February 2016 14:32

Intel processors will support Clang


Cannonlake reacts to Zen


Intel has announced that its Cannonlake processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project).