For chip manufacturers, not Sony

Reuters broke an exclusive story about Intel losing the PlayStation 6 deal to AMD. My argument is that it is hard to lose something that you didn’t have. What actually happened is that Intel simply didn’t want to go lower than AMD to secure the deal. The process is called negotiation. Sony as any other business will give the business away to a competitor at a lower price than it is paying right now.  

Exclusive: Data center first strategy

Strix point, Ryzen AI 300 is a promising product that replaced the Hawk point Ryzen 8000 series but 2024 was not that kind for AMD consumer business unit in general. A design decision to use data center optimized cores (Zen 5) in notebooks and prioritize data center products and wafers left AMD in a position where Qualcomm managed to get more partners excited about its Snapdragon X Elite / Plus series.

Navi 32 GPU with 3840 Stream Processors

AMD has officially listed the Radeon RX 7800M on its website, confirming it is based on the Navi 32 GPU and featuring 60 CUs, leaving it with 3,840 Stream Processors and 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit memory interface.

Instinct MI325X, 5th Gen EPYC, and Ryzen AI PRO 300

AMD has officially announced its "Advancing AI 2024" event for October 10th, which will be held in-person and live-streamed as well, where the company is expected to showcase its next-generation AMD Instinct accelerators and 5th Gen EPYC server processors, new Networking and AI PC updates and more.

Technical presentation hosted by Mark Cerny

Sony has scheduled a technical presentation for PlayStation 5 Pro later today, which will be hosted by Mark Cerny, Lead Architect of the PS5 console.

Both the X870 and X870E

While AMD and motherboard makers have yet to confirm the launch date of the new 800-series motherboards, Amazon has jumped the gun, showing that these motherboards will be released on September 30th. Earlier leak also puts the review embargo for the same date.

Wants to focus on low to mid range

A dark satanic rumour claiming that AMD wants to move away from the high-end enthusiast GPU crowd to focus on cheap and cheerful chips has been confirmed.

Ryzen 5 7600X3D arrives as Ryzen 5 7600X3D seems to vanish

AMD has launched the new Zen 4 CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D, while the hugely popular Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to be vanishing from the market. While the Ryzen 5 7600X3D was exclusive to Micro Center in the US, it is now coming to Mind Factory in Germany as well.

MLCommons benchmarks are in

MLCommons has released benchmarks comparing AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU with Nvidia's Hopper H100, H200, and Blackwell B200 GPUs.

Not coming next month as rumored earlier

It appears that the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000X3D series, based on the latest Zen 5 architecture and with 3D V-Cache, will launch at the CES 2025 show in January next year, rather than next month as earlier rumored.