Half of this went to Nvidia

The semiconductor industry in 2024 was an all-you-can-eat buffet for AI chipmakers, with the top ten fabless firms raking in a cool $249.8 billion—nearly half of which was trousered by Nvidia.

Claims it is available  

AMD has declared that it has sorted out all the supply issues with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D  -- arguably the best gaming chip on the market.

Enters the AI upscaling race

Troubled Chipzilla has finally pulled its finger out and released the XeSS 2 SDK, hoping to claw back some relevance in the AI upscaling arms race.

Extreme speed and large capacity kits

G.Skill has announced a couple of new DDR5 memory kits aimed at the AMD platform, including an extreme-speed DDR5-8000 48GB kit and a large-capacity DDR5-6000 192GB kit.

Agreed to see other people

MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.

Not supporting BIOS and CSM standards

AMD has confirmed that its upcoming RX 9070 series (RDNA 4) GPUs will require a UEFI system for optimal compatibility, unceremoniously dumping support for the ageing BIOS and CSM standards.

AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 and Ryzen AI 7 350 processors

Sapphire is apparently looking to make a return to the mini-PC market, and is showcasing two new Edge AI mini-PC series SKUs at the Embedded World 2025.

Joint venture with Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom

TSMC is trying to rescue troubled Chipzilla’s floundering foundry business, pitching a joint venture to Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom to keep the US chip dinosaur from drowning in a tarpit of its own making.

From Zen 1 to Zen 4

Google's security boffins have uncovered a gaping security hole affecting every Zen processor from Zen 1 to Zen 4.

EPYC Embedded 9005 Series CPUs

AMD has expanded its x86 embedded processor lineup by rolling out its 5th Gen EPYC Embedded processors with the new EPYC Embedded 9005 Series CPUs.