AMD Ryzen 9 9950X sees 59 per cent price cut
$269 on Amazon
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X processor, boasting 16 cores and 32 threads, is now available at a massive 59 per cent discount on Amazon, priced at just $269, according to Gizmodo.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 series appears in retail
Ahead of rumored January launch
Danish retailer Foniks and an Israeli shop have begun listing AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards as available for immediate shipping.
World’s most powerful supercomputer switched on
El Capitan can predict the existence of rice pudding to 400 decimal places
The world’s most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan, was officially turned on at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri and AMD CEO Lisa Su celebrating their partnership.
Zotac shows its new ZONE handheld prototype at CES 2025
AMD Strix Point APU, more RAM and storage, in a similar package
In addition to the full lineup of Geforce RTX 50 series graphics cards, Zotac's new ZONE gaming handheld prototype was also spotted at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas. Zotac decided to update the console with AMD Strix Point APU, as well as give it 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and 1TB of storage.
AMD officially announces Ryzen 9 9000X3D Series desktop processors with 3D V-Cache
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the Ryzen 9 9900X3D SKUs
At the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas, AMD officially announced the new Ryzen 9000X3D SKUs with 3D V-Cache, the 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 9900X3D.
AMD announces new Ryzen Z2 series SoCs for gaming handhelds
And no, it is not coming to Steam Deck 2
On the heels of the CES 2025 show, AMD has announced the new Ryzen Z2 series SoCs for gaming handhelds, including the Ryzen Z2 Extreme, Ryzen Z2, and the Ryzen Z2 Go. All are based on 4nm Strix Point and should bring significant improvements over the current Ryzen Z1 series SoC, especially on the GPU front, despite sticking to the RDNA 3.5 architecture.
ASUS details TUF and PRIME series Radeon RX 9700 graphics cards
Confirms 16GB of VRAM for both RX 9700 XT and non-XT
ASUS has detailed the upcoming Radeon RX 9700 series graphics cards, including TUF and PRIME series versions, that will launch as soon as AMD gives the green light, confirming the RDNA 4 architecture and 16GB of VRAM for both the Radeon RX 9700 XT and the Radeon RX 9700.
New AMD GPUs a no show at CES
Everyone surprised
Observers at AMD’s CES 2025 keynote were surprised that Team Red had nothing to say about its coming RX 9000 series.
AMD rumoured to develop Fire Range Successor
X3D Technology
AMD is allegedly working on a successor to its Dragon Range (Ryzen 7045HX) processor lineup, codenamed Fire Range.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 sticking to 8-pin power connectors
Launch end of January
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 will not have a 12V-2×6 connector and will stick to the older 8-pin connectors.