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…