New CPUs promise desktop-class punch and RDNA 2 graphics on the go

AMD’s Dragon Range is breathing fire again. The chipmaker has just unleashed its Ryzen 8000HX mobility CPUs — a refresh of the 7000HX lineup — aimed squarely at high-end gaming laptops and mobile workstations.

Red Devil in Spectral White color option

PowerColor has introduced the latest Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards, the Red Devil Spectral White AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB. This limited edition version will be coming in a full-white color scheme, including the PCB, shroud, backplate, and even the I/O shield, as well as packing all the high-end features of the Red Devil series. 

Inference, not training, may be AMD’s golden ticket

AMD might be down 50 per cent in six months, but investor Yiannis Zourmpanos (pictured) is doubling down, insisting the market’s missing the point. While the chipmaker continues to trail Nvidia, he says the prize isn’t in training gargantuan AI models—it’s in running them.

Ryzen Z2 Extreme gets a neural power-up

AMD is about to crank out a slightly rehashed version of its Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU for handhelds—but this time, it's flipping on the AI switch.

Ryzen 9800X3D flies off shelves as Core Ultra 200S faceplants

AMD’s Ryzen army continues to stomp on Troubled Chipzilla’s silicon dreams, with March 2025 sales figures showing Ryzen chips practically owning Amazon’s CPU charts in the US.

Flaming expensive 

More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.

Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry

Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.

Chipmaker banks on AI boom 

Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.

Intel’s 18A node may become more than just internal salvation

Nvidia is eyeing Troubled Chipzilla’s foundry business to manufacture gaming GPUs—marking a potential inflexion point for Intel’s battered but still-breathing manufacturing arm, according to GuruFocus.

Putting the screws on Intel, Nvidia, and other chipmakers

Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s administration has dusted off its national security megaphone again and added another 80 companies and organisations to the US export blacklist.