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In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD's mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen 7040 series), it seems as though AMD is once again changing things around where their naming scheme for processors is concerned. The ASUS listing, which has now since been deleted, but as of writing is still available through Google's cache, highlights a model that is already in existence, the VivoBook S 16 OLED (M5606), but is listed with an unknown AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor. Which, based on...
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ASRock Launches The New X399 Phantom Gaming 6 Motherboard
The Phantom Gaming series, debuted recently, has been an interesting development from ASRock. Going for a more sleek look, the range offers additional functionality above the norm different to...
3 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/26/2018
Managing 8 Rome CPUs in 1U: Cray’s Shasta Direct Liquid Cooling
The Supercomputing show was a hive of activity, with lots of whispers surrounding the next generation of x86 CPUs, such as AMD’s Rome platform and Intel’s Cascade Lake platform...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018
The AMD Radeon RX 590 Review, feat. XFX & PowerColor: Polaris Returns (Again)
When AMD launched the Polaris-based Radeon RX 480 in June 2016, the focus was firmly on the mainstream market, looking to offer superior value over raw performance. At the...
138 by Nate Oh on 11/15/2018
ASUS Comments on Intel Shortages, U.S.-China Trade War
ASUS this week released its financial results for the third quarter of the year, and in the process issued comments regarding two pressing issues: shortages of Intel’s chipsets and...
30 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2018
AMD 64-Core Rome Deployment: HLRS ‘Hawk’ at 2.35 GHz
Last week AMD pre-announced its next-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome. These new processors are set to be officially announced next year, but will feature up to 64 cores using...
30 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018
First AMD EPYC Rome Motherboard Spotted
Part of AMD’s recent pre-announcement of its next generation Rome server processors, using 7nm chiplets and running up to 64 cores, is that the new processors will be compatible...
71 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018
AMD Launches High-Frequency EPYC 7371 Processor
AMD has announced its new high-frequency EPYC 7371 processor designed for applications that benefit from high clocks. The CPU has 16 cores and is aimed at tasks like electronic...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018
Naples, Rome, Milan, Zen 4: An Interview with AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster
At AMD’s Next Horizon event this week, the company disclosed for the first time the layout of its next generation EPYC processor, the new Vega Radeon Instinct datacenter compute...
59 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1
Today, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1, bringing zero-day game support and performance improvements ahead of Hitman 2 (11/13/18), Fallout 76 (11/14/18), and Battlefield V Early Access (11/15/18)...
6 by Nate Oh on 11/8/2018
AMD EPYC for ATX Workstations: GIGABYTE MZ01-CE0 & MZ01-CE1 Motherboards
AMD’s EPYC processor has made it into servers and supercomputers, yet it still has to find its place inside workstations. To a large degree that is because up until...
29 by Anton Shilov on 11/7/2018
AMD Announces Radeon Instinct MI60 & MI50 Accelerators: Powered By 7nm Vega
As part of this morning’s Next Horizon event, AMD formally announced the first two accelerator cards based on the company’s previously revealed 7nm Vega GPU. Dubbed the Radeon Instinct...
26 by Ryan Smith on 11/6/2018
AMD Previews EPYC ‘Rome’ Processor: Up to 64 Zen 2 Cores
AMD on Tuesday formally announced its next-generation EPYC processor code-named Rome. The new server CPU will feature up to 64 cores featuring the Zen 2 microarchitecture, thus providing at...
67 by Anton Shilov on 11/6/2018
AMD Unveils ‘Chiplet’ Design Approach: 7nm Zen 2 Cores Meet 14 nm I/O Die
AMD on Tuesday disclosed some additional details about its upcoming codenamed Rome processor based on its Zen 2 microarchitecture. As it turns out, the company will use a new...
78 by Anton Shilov on 11/6/2018
AMD Announces Zen 4 Microarchitecture Under Development
At its Next Horizon event in San Francisco, AMD announced the fourth iteration of its Zen microarchitecture. The Zen 4 is currently in development, so the company does not...
16 by Anton Shilov on 11/6/2018
AMD’s EPYC CPUs Now Available on Amazon Web Services
AMD on Tuesday announced availability of its processors on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). AMD EPYC-based systems will be used as web and application servers, backend servers for enterprise...
6 by Anton Shilov on 11/6/2018
AMD Next Horizon Live Blog: Starts 9am PT / 5pm UTC
AMD's 2019 is set to be full of 7nm products, and on the back of AMD's New Horizon event on 2016, today it is hosting part two: Next Horizon...
104 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2018
AMD Investor Relations Announces “Next Horizon” Event for November 6th
Earlier today on their Investor Relations website, AMD posted notice of a new event. Dubbed “AMD Next Horizon”, the event is currently slated for November 6th – no time...
10 by Ryan Smith on 11/1/2018
AMD’s Vega Mobile Lives: Vega Pro 20 & 16 in Updated MacBook Pros In November
Buried towards the tail-end of today’s MacBook Air press release from Apple was a second announcement: that they’d be releasing a minor MacBook Pro refresh next month. Though curious...
36 by Ryan Smith on 10/30/2018
The AMD Threadripper 2 CPU Review: The 24-Core 2970WX and 12-Core 2920X Tested
This year AMD launched its second generation high-end desktop Ryzen Threadripper processors. The benefits of the new parts include better performance, better frequency, and parts up to 32 cores...
70 by Ian Cutress on 10/29/2018
Day of the Dead: AMD Releases new Carrizo FM2+ APU, the A8-7680
Reports of a new Carrizo APU have been floating around for the past couple of weeks as several ASRock FM2+ recently had BIOS updates stating ‘now supporting new Carrizo...
41 by Ian Cutress on 10/29/2018
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