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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 27, 2021
It is widely expected that AMD will introduce some new processors at or around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, as it has a livestream planned for the day before the event kicks off. If a recent leak is true, a new line of...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 24, 2021
Aya-Neo has decided to delay the unveiling for its "Next" gaming PC console by a week, moving the date from December 28, 2021 to January 4, 2022. Normally a mere week-long delay would not be notable, but in this case, the timing is...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 22, 2021
AMD has a few product launches in the wings, including a upgraded version of its Ryzen 5000 series with a pile of stacked 3D V-cache added to the mix. According to AMD, this massive L3 cache allotment will net users a 15 percent...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Dec 21, 2021
The Log4shell exploit in the widely-used Apache Log4j package has had just about every single sysadmin in the world working nights and weekends to desperately get their internet-facing servers updated. The problem isn't simply patching and...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 21, 2021
Aya-Neo is promising "innovations never seen on a Windows gaming handheld" and that evidently includes next-gen AMD cores of some kind, according to a teaser the company posted on Twitter. While finer grain details are not yet available...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 21, 2021
It is often said that records are meant to broken, like when Steph Curry overtook Ray Allen to become the NBA's all-time three-point leader last week. Every once in a while, however, records end up in a tie. Such is the case with Cinebench...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 20, 2021
AMD sure is taking its sweet time bringing a new generation of Ryzen Threadripper processors to market. It's going to take a little bit more time too, if the latest rumor proves accurate. If it does, a new round of Threadripper processors...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 18, 2021
Eurocom is claiming its brand new Nightsky ARX315 laptop is the "king of the hill" and looking at the beastly specifications, it's hard to argue otherwise. The only real point of dispute is whether this is a high-performance "Superlapop!"...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 17, 2021
Intel has stepped into the Alder Lake era with the launch of its 12th Gen Core processors, which so far consist of six SKUs (and really three base models, each offered with and without integrated graphics). More models are obviously on the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 14, 2021
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is just a few weeks away, and you can bet there will be a bunch of product announcements. The four-day event runs from January 5-8 (Wednesday-Saturday), though the day before it officially...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 13, 2021
Perhaps one day NVIDIA will release a GeForce RTX 4090 Ti graphics card. If such a card materializes, it won't be until next year at the soonest, maybe alongside AMD's Radeon RX 7000 series. Or if a Flexpool listing is to be believed...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Dec 12, 2021
Lenovo is evidently getting ready to refresh its Legion gaming PC with a not-yet-announced graphics card from AMD, the Radeon RX 6500 XT. While the card is not official at the moment, it likely soon will be, assuming its reference in a PDF...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 11, 2021
AMD is going all-in with chip stacking technologies, like the stacked 3D V-cache that is headed to its refreshed Zen 3 processors for a claimed 15 percent performance boost, and also its 3rd Gen EPYC processors with an even bigger...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 10, 2021
Data from a major retailer in Germany shows that Alder Lake is already helping Intel regain some of the market share it gave up to AMD. That retailer is MindFactory, and looking at the sales data for the past month, Intel has finally...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 09, 2021
We are not going to see a new generation of GPUs until next year, which will also usher in a third player, that being Intel and its Arc lineup. But while RDNA 3 (AMD) and Ada Lovelace (NVIDIA) are still off in the distance bit, AMD might...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Dec 07, 2021
Hardware enthusiasts may recall some fuss earlier this year about the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit. That was a pre-packaged motherboard-and-CPU combo bearing an eight-core CPU of Zen 2 lineage. Given the presence of GDDR6 memory on the mainboard...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 03, 2021
If you own a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card, a free performance boost in Halo Infinite awaits—you just need to download and install the latest driver package, Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1. According to the release notes, the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 03, 2021
By all accounts, AMD is back in the game with its Zen architecture, and has especially hit its stride with Zen 3. From the desktop (Ryzen) to the data center (EPYC), AMD has been gaining ground on its rival, and at times has even laid...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 01, 2021
In a recent call at the Credit Suisse 25th Technology Conference, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su talked a little bit about the business side of the equation, touching on things like market strategies and compound annual growth rate (CAGR) forecasts...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 30, 2021
AMD was very upfront about the fact that its stacked 3D V-cache was headed to its current-generation Ryzen 5000 series in an upcoming refresh, it just has not divulged exactly when that will happen. It could be very soon, if the latest...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 29, 2021
Do you hear coughing and wheezing sounds coming from your PC? If so, it might be time to finally retire that aging CPU you've been holding onto for such a long time and treat yourself to an upgrade (or a brand new PC build). Other than the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 23, 2021
There is a lot to digest in the latest GPU shipment report from Jon Peddie Research, which really highlights the fact that we are in a unique time period. Silicon shortages abound and it is next to impossible to find a graphics card in...
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