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AMD is looking to drive the AI PC market with options across multiple product lines, which aren't limited to consumer processors. While primarily designed for the commercial sector, AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8000 'Phoenix' series of APUs for desktops, which AMD claims is the first professional-grade CPU to include an NPU designed to provide on-chip AI neural processing capabilities. AMD has also announced the Ryzen Pro 8040 'Hawk Point' series of mobile processors designed for commercial laptops and notebooks. AMD's Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors come with support from AMD's Pro Manageability and AMD Pro Business Ready suites and are built with AMD's current generation Zen 4 cores. The Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors are...
ASRock Reveals 4x4 Box 7040 Series: SFF PCs with AMD Phoenix and USB4
ASRock Industrial has introduced a new lineup of NUC-like systems based on AMD's Ryzen 7040-series 'Phoenix' processors for laptops and compact desktops. The new 4x4 Box 7040 series compact...
9 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2023Minisforum Teases AMD Ryzen-Based Tablet
Having received worldwide recognition for its compact desktop computers, Minisforum is looking beyond PCs to grow its business. Earlier this year the company introduced its first tablet and is...
26 by Anton Shilov on 8/29/2023AMD Teases FSR 3 and Hypr-RX: Updated Radeon Performance Technologies Available in September
Alongside this morning’s announcement of the new Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT video cards, AMD is also using their Gamescom launch event to deliver an update...
43 by Ryan Smith on 8/25/2023AMD Announces Radeon RX 7800 XT & Radeon RX 7700 XT: Enthusiast-Class RDNA3 For 1440p Gaming
With the Gamescom convention taking place in Germany this week, AMD is using Europe’s largest video game trade show as the venue for their latest Radeon video card announcements...
38 by Ryan Smith on 8/25/2023Beelink GTR7 mini-PC Review: A Complete AMD Phoenix Package at 65W
The increasing popularity of small form-factor (SFF) PCs has allowed a number of second and third tier vendors to market their wares. While the trend was kickstarted by the...
56 by Ganesh T S on 8/24/2023AMD to Unveil 'Major' New Radeon Products Next Week at Gamescom
Earlier this month, AMD said that it would refresh its lineup of Radeon RX graphics cards for gamers this quarter, and apparently, the new products are set to be...
27 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2023AMD to Introduce New Enthusiast-Class Graphics Cards This Quarter
As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD revealed that the company is getting ready to launch new enthusiast-class Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in the coming...
30 by Anton Shilov on 8/3/2023AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: Pro RDNA 3 For The Mid-Range
As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their next wave of professional cards...
5 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2023AMD Announces Ryzen 9 7945HX3D: Ryzen Mobile Gets 3D V-Cache
For this year's ChinaJoy expo, AMD is taking to the show to announce a new and very special mobile CPU for high-end, desktop replacement-class laptops: the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/27/2023AMD Launches Ryzen 5 7500F in China: Zen 4 With no Integrated Graphics
Over the weekend, AMD officially listed the Ryzen 5 7500F processor on their website. Although initial reports pointed towards a China-only release, and at present, that much is true...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/24/2023Ultra Ethernet Consortium Formed, Plans to Adapt Ethernet for AI and HPC Needs
This week the Linux Foundation has announced that the group will be overseeing the formation of a new Ethernet consortium, with a focus on adapting and refining the technology...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2023ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB
Last month at Computex, ASRock unveiled two new Taichi-inspired motherboards based on a 'lite' approach to aesthetics and design, which they called Taichi Lite. Today, ASRock has officially announced...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/13/2023AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4
Further to AMD's latest Micro Center exclusive processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D with 3D V-Cache, AMD has seemingly introduced a budget-focused quad-core processor based on their Zen 3 architecture...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/12/2023El Capitan's Little Brother Tuolumne Can Conquer Most Top 10 Supercomputers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises to achieve computational performance of over 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS for classified national security research. Parallel...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2023El Capitan Installation Begins: First APU-based Exascale System Shaping Up For 2024
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had received the first components of its upcoming El Capitan supercomputer and begun to install them, the laboratory announced on Wednesday. The system is set...
18 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2023AMD To Release Limited Run Ryzen 5 5600X3D for $230, Micro Center Exclusive
With AMD now several months post release of their current AM5 platform, I figured that the sun was setting on AMD’s previous-generation AM4 platform. But, it would seem, AM4...
39 by Ryan Smith on 7/1/2023AMD: Partial RDNA 3 Video Card Support Coming to Future ROCm Releases
AMD this morning is formally announcing the launch of the latest version of its GPU compute software stack, ROCm 5.7. Along with making several important updates to the software...
15 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2023Noctua Releases Direct Die Kit for Delidded Ryzen 7000 CPUs
Noctua has announced a unique kit designed to enable the company's coolers to be installed on delidded AMD Ryzen 7000-series processors. The NM-DD1 kit, which can be either ordered...
15 by Anton Shilov on 6/27/2023Gigabyte's Low-Cost Mini-ITX A620 Motherboard Supports Ryzen R9 7950X, R9 7950X3D CPUs
Gigabyte has quietly introduced one of the industry's first inexpensive motherboards for AMD's AM5 processors in Mini-ITX form-factor. The most unexpected peculiarity of Gigabyte's A620I AX motherboard — based...
19 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023Noctua's New Cooler Mounting to Lower Temps of AMD's AM5 CPUs
AMD's latest Ryzen 7000-series CPUs in AM5 packaging are well known for their high operating temperatures. Higher-performance coolers like all-in-one liquid cooling systems have typically solved the problem. Noctua...
19 by Anton Shilov on 6/20/2023