Intel faces more ghosting from Spectre
Call in more Ghostbusters
Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D spotted with double the V-Cache
192MB of V-Cache
There has been a sighting of a Zen 4 CPU variant boasting a whopping 192MB of L3 cache—double the V-Cache of existing models.
Samsung about to shun AMD
Will return to making its own in-house chip
The Dark Satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn, claiming that Samsung is set to abandon AMD’s RDNA GPU architecture and revert to using its homegrown integrated graphics for its Exynos SoC.
AMD confirms sampling of Zen 5 EPYC Turin processors
Silicon looks great and is on track to launch later this year
During its Q1 2024 financial report, AMD confirmed the status of its future products, including the Zen 5 CPU architecture, namely EPYC Turing CPUs.
AMD RDNA 4 architecture could feature all new Ray Tracing engine
To offer much better performance
According to the latest rumor, AMD might implement a completely new Ray Tracing (RT) engine with its upcoming RDNA 4 architecture GPUs that are expected to debut with the Radeon RX 8000 graphics card series. The new RT engine could give a much higher performance compared to the current RDNA 3-based GPUs.
AMD Ryzen 7 8700F shows up on Amazon for pre-order
Launching on May 14 at $299.99
Amazon has briefly jumped the gun on AMD's Ryzen 7 8700F APU, which should launch alongside the Ryzen 5 8400F on May 14th, listing it for pre-order at $299.99.
AMD’s AI results anger Wall Street
Bubble bursts
The Cocaine Nose Jobs of Wall Street are furious after AMD’s results were not as wonderful as they expected.
MSI Claw gets big performance boost thanks to BIOS and driver update
Up to 150 percent boost
MSI had a rough time peddling the Intel-based Claw gaming handheld console mostly due to a high price and lackluster performance compared to similar AMD-based handheld consoles, but now it might get a chance with a recent 25 percent price cut and big performance BIOS and driver update, which boosted performance up to 150 percent.
AMD's Strix spectacular
Slim Laptops to pack Zen 5 power
The spec sheets for AMD's forthcoming APU ranges, Strix Point and Strix Halo, have been leaked, and they're shaping up to be rather smashing.
AMD’s new chips might have a slower video RAM than Nvidia
But that might not be a bad thing
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s coming chips might ship with a slower video RAM than its Nvidia equivalents.