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AMD is doubling down on its ultra-compact workstation compute to challenge NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Apple's family of Mac mini systems. Following the launch of its Ryzen AI Halo workstation that we reviewed earlier this year, AMD has...
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The Helios AI is AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most...
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Although it has been roughly 17 months since the initial release of its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series cards, news regarding its next generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture remains scarce, with rumors indicating we could be waiting another year for anything solid to materialize. We have...
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In an official statement from AMD's Computing and Graphics VP Jack Huynh, the company confirms plans to expand FSR 4 upscaling support across its APUs, which includes chips powering many PC gaming handhelds and laptops, by the end of the...
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Valve has been quick to downplay most rumors about a potential "Steam Deck 2." The firm says that a next-gen handheld is not coming until Valve's developers feel that there has been a true generational improvement in technology, so that...
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AMD is making one of its biggest strategic moves yet to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance in the artificial intelligence landscape. In an all-stock deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion, AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World...
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AMD has updated its performance estimates for its upcoming 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and the latest numbers make an aggressive case against Intel and NVIDIA in high-density data center workloads. A new AMD white paper, titled...
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There are two new AMD CPUs on the block, and normally that would be bigger news, but both of these chips are based on previous-generation processor technology, and one of them is yet another new SKU for the decade-old Socket AM4 platform...
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Valve's updated Steam hardware survey for the month of August reveals an interesting development within Team Red's camp. Serving as a notable milestone for AMD's graphics lineup, the company's flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT is now its most...
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AMD unveiled its beastly Threadripper Halo Station during its keynote at IFA Berlin 2026. Capable of running AI models with more than a trillion (yes, TRILLION) parameters, AMD's Senior VP Jack Huynh said the Threadripper Halo Station is...
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Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Minisforum has officially announced the MS-S1 Max-P495, an ultra-compact mini-workstation designed to put serious local AI horsepower on your desk. Powered by AMD's flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI...
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The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has awarded a €387.8 million (around $450 million in U.S. currency) procurement contract to systems vendor Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, Europe's next-generation flagship...
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If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably read that headline and said "well yeah?", while if you don't follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably have no idea what we're talking about. Here's the short version: AMD's...
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Today, the house of Radeon has just released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1. This new driver package brings support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy as well as the X-COM-like Star Wars Zero Company and Call of Duty: Modern...
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The global PC processor market experienced an unexpected surge in the second quarter of 2026, with total x86 and Arm-based CPU shipments growing more than 10% sequentially to defy normal seasonal trends, according to fresh data from...
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AMD is making a big bet on the future of AI hardware. The Santa Clara chip designer announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, a company taking an unconventional approach to inference by...
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Remember when AMD appeared on rocky ground? That was forever ago, and these days, the chip designer has successfully transformed itself into an enterprise hardware powerhouse. This is reflected in a string of strong earnings reports, the...
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Modern microprocessors come stacked with processor cores. This is great for lots of reasons, but many of the most demanding tasks we run on PCs are highly latency-sensitive because they are held up by fundamentally serial (meaning they...
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If you were thinking about buying one of AMD's really quite excellent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, you'd better get on the ball and do it soon, because more price hikes are on the way. That's the word out of China; specifically, this originates on the Board Channels forums, which are...
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ASRock has jumped the gun on revealing a surprise new entry-level addition to AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card family, the Radeon RX 9050, which is evidently being offered in both 4GB and 8GB variants. The add-in board (AIB) partner went live with a couple of product pages for its custom Challenger...
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If you read that headline and thought, "so?" then you're on the right track. AMD's Socket AM5 has already had a pretty good run, with four distinct processor families spanning two different CPU architectures and three different GPU designs inhabiting the socket. If we get two more CPU...
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If you’ve been waiting for a price drop on AMD's top-tier desktop silicon, now is the time to act. The former flagship AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has hit an all-time low price of $569 at both Amazon and Newegg, with both offering a promo code to slash $130 off the chip's $699 MSRP.
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