Zenbleed: How the quest for CPU performance could put your passwords at risk
You need to turn on a special setting to stop (the code you wrote to stop [the code you wrote to improve performance] from reducing performance) from reducing security.
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AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare
The June Steam Survey results show that AMD CPUs have gained significant popularity among Linux gamers, with a market share of 67% — a remarkable 7% increase from the previous month. Phoronix reports: In part that’s due to the Steam Deck being powered…
Could AMD’s AI Chips Match the Performance of Nvidia’s Chips?
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:
Artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices are about 80% as fast as those from Nvidia Corp, with a future path to matching their performance, according a Friday report by an AI softwa…
AMD Likely To Offer Details on AI Chip in Challenge To Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday is expected to reveal new details about an AI “superchip” that analysts believe will be a strong challenger to Nvidia, whose chips dominate the fast-growing artificial intelligence market. From a report: AMD Chief Exec…
AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time
Michael Larabel, reporting at Phoronix: AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliabili…
AMD’s and Nvidia’s Latest Sub-$400 GPUs Fail To Push the Bar on 1440p Gaming
An anonymous reader shares a report: I’m disappointed. I’ve been waiting for AMD and Nvidia to offer up more affordable options for this generation of GPUs that could really push 1440p into the mainstream, but what I’ve been reviewing over the past wee…
AMD Now Powers 121 of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today, and AMD continues its streak of impressive wins with 121 systems now powered by AMD’s silicon — a year-over-year increase of 29%. From a report: Additionally, AMD continue…
AMD Will Replace AGESA With Open Source Initialization Library ‘openSIL’
Phoronix shares some overlooked news from AMD’s openSIL presentation at the OCP Regional Summit in April. Specifically, that AMD openSIL — their open-source x86 silicon initialization library — “is planned to eventually replace AMD’s well k…
Report: Microsoft is Partnering with AMD on Athena AI Chipset
According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips. Meanwhile, AMD is working with Microsoft to create an in-house chipset, codenamed Athena, for the software giant’s data centers. Paul Thurrott reports: Athe…
AMD Posts First Loss in Years as Consumer Chip Sales Plummet by 65%
AMD has posted its first quarterly loss in years due to weak sales of processors for client PCs. From a report: Overall, AMD’s chip sales dropped 64%. AMD’s data center and gaming hardware shipments remained strong and were flat year-over-year, which i…