Beats expectations with record revenue in the Data Center segment

AMD has officially announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2024, reporting a revenue of $5.8 billion with a gross margin of 49 percent. AMD managed to beat expectations, with up to 9 percent higher revenue and 3 points higher gross margin, compared to the last year. The clear winner was its Data Center segment, reporting an increase of 115 percent, driven by AMD Instinct GPU and 4th gen EPYC CPU sales.

Improvements in both performance and efficiency

SK hynix has announced the introduction of its new GDDR7 memory, which is said to be the industry's best-performing GDDR7, a next-generation graphics memory product, that brings significant improvements in both performance and power efficiency. It is expected to be mass-produced in Q3 2024.

Improvements across the board

AMD has introduced Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2), an update to the frame generation technology that includes several improvements and optimizations that should further improve gameplay smoothness, lower latency, and performance improvements on a driver level.

To be powered by Ada Lovelace AD106 GPU

A rather interesting new graphics card has been spotted in Nvidia's latest driver release and PCI ID database. Called the Geforce RTX 3050 A Laptop, the new graphics card will be powred by the AD106 GPU, packing more CUDA cores compared to the current lineup.

17W chip for thin and light laptops

Geekbench database has revealed yet another Lunar Lake CPU SKU, an entry-level 17W chip aimed at thin and light laptops.

First batch does not meet full quality expectations

AMD has released an official statement confirming that its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors have been delayed. It is not a major delay, and the official launch is now pushed to August 8th.

With new CheckMate 64-bit benchmark

FinalWire has released the latest version of AIDA64 diagnostic and benchmarking software, the AIDA64 v7.35. The new version brings a whole new CheckMate 64-bit benchmark, new AVX-512 accelerated benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI Strix APU, improved support, and more.

27-inch IPS panel, 180Hz refresh rate, and FHD resolution

ASRock has unveiled two new gaming monitors, the PG27FFT1A and the PG27FFT1B. Both are part of ASRock's Phantom Gaming lineup, these two will feature a 27-inch Fast IPS panel with a 180Hz refresh rate and 1080p resolution.

Ex-Xilinx CEO gets well-earned retirement

AMD has announced that AMD President Victor Peng is retiring effective August 30th.

Peaks at up to 7200MB/s

Western Digital has rather silently added an 8GB version of its WD Black SN850X SSD, which now sells in both standard and heatsink options for $849 and $899, respectively.