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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Formerly known as LinuxBIOS, coreboot is defined by Wikipedia as “a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware (BIOS or UEFI) found in most computers with a lightweight firmware.”

Phoronix is wondering if there’s about to be a big annou…

MojoKid writes: At CES 2023, AMD unveiled an array of Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 processors, including new gaming-targeted X3D models that featured integrated 3D V-Cache, similar to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The processors go on sale tomorrow, but review embar…

An anonymous reader shares a report: As the PC industry flounders, Intel suffered from such disastrous sales last quarter that it instituted pay cuts and other extreme measures going forward. AMD’s client PC sales also dropped dramatically — a whoppin…

An anonymous reader shares a report: In pursuit of ever-higher compute density, chipmakers are juicing their chips with more and more power, and according to the Uptime Institute, this could spell trouble for many legacy datacenters ill equipped to han…

At CES this week, AMD announced a suite of new chips for notebooks and desktop computers, with one notable announcement being the company’s new AMD Ryzen 7040 series of processors for ultrathin notebooks that will compete with Apple’s M1 Pro and M2 chi…