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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...
AMD Set To Roll Out AGESA firmware USB Fix For Ryzen, Coming April
Last month, we reported that AMD had been made aware of many users experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with USB ports on its Ryzen 500-series motherboards. Requesting that users with...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/17/2021
AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 comes to Commercial Notebooks
Alongside every launch of AMD’s consumer processors, the commercial offerings for business come along a few months after. Today we see the commercial launch of the Ryzen 5000 Mobile...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/16/2021
The Tour of Italy with EPYC Milan: Interview with AMD's Forrest Norrod
As AMD initiates the official global launch of its 3rd Generation EPYC enterprise processor family, codename Milan, we spend some time with AMD’s Forrest Norrod to discuss the new...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/15/2021
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review: A Peak vs Per Core Performance Balance
The arrival of AMD’s 3rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated. The promise of a new processor core microarchitecture, updates to...
120 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 3/15/2021
AMD to Launch 3rd Generation EPYC on March 15th: Milan with Zen 3
We’ve known for a while that AMD was set to launch its next generation enterprise EPYC processor family, collectively known by its codename Milan, sometime in the first quarter...
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First AMD B550 With Thunderbolt 4: The ASUS ProArt B550-Creator
From a post by ASUS's Technical Product Marketing Manager (u/ASUSTechMKTJJ) on Reddit, ASUS looks to be readying up a new B550 motherboard based on its ProArt series. The ASUS...
50 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/3/2021
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6700 XT: RDNA2 For 1440p, Coming March 18th For $479
As part of AMD’s latest Where Gaming Begins product presentation, the prolific processor designer announced the next member in its Radeon family of video cards, the Radeon RX 6700...
109 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2021
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Retail Offering Starts Today
Today AMD is officially going to start offering its Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors at retail, effectively ending the exclusivity deal with Lenovo on the product line. To date, Lenovo...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/2/2021
AMD To Unveil Next Radeon RX 6000 Video Card On March 3rd
It looks like AMD is getting ready to launch the next part in their RDNA2/RX 6000 family of video cards. This afternoon the company sent out a save the...
38 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2021
Lenovo Updates ThinkPads: New Intel and AMD Processors, New Displays, New Designs
Today Lenovo is announcing a slew of updates across a large portion of their ThinkPad lineup, and updating their business-focused products for 2021. Some of the big changes for...
25 by Brett Howse on 2/23/2021
AMD To Probe Potential USB Connectivity Issue on Ryzen Systems
Some AMD users have been posting on social media, including Reddit, about experiencing intermittent connectivity problems when using USB ports on their 500-series motherboards. In response, AMD has reached...
45 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/22/2021
Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Review: A Vehicle for Threadripper Pro
The workstation line of machines from Lenovo have been extremely successful for the company. While ThinkStation might not have as much brand identity as the more recognizable ThinkPad, for...
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Xbox Series X SoC: Power, Thermal, and Yield Tradeoffs
This week at ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), Microsoft presented a talk titled ‘Xbox Series X SoC: A Next Generation Gaming Console’, with hardware engineer Paul Paternoster presenting...
82 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/15/2021
64 Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review
Knowing your market is a key fundamental of product planning, marketing, and distribution. There’s no point creating a product with no market, or finding you have something amazing but...
125 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/9/2021
Hands-On with the ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi
One of the criticisms levied at AMD last year was that it released its new Threadripper Pro platform in September but it was vendor-locked at the time to the...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/29/2021
AMD Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript
At the end of every financial call, invited financial analysts have an opportunity to probe the key members of the company on the numbers, as well as future products...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
Needing no introduction, AMD this afternoon is the second of the PC chip titans to announce their earnings for the quarter and for the full 2020 calendar year. The...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2021
AMD's Ryzen 5000 Lucienne: Not Simply Rebranded Ryzen 4000 Renoir
AMD came in for some harsh criticism when it announced that its new Ryzen 5000 Mobile U-series processors would not all be using its latest core design. At the...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
Since AMD’s introduction of its newest Zen 3 core for desktop users, the implementation for notebooks and mobile users has been eagerly awaited. In a single generation, on the...
218 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
The ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard Review
AMD's AM4 socket has been consistent throughout the entirety of its Ryzen processor's lifespan, and the latest Zen 3 processors are best suited for the X570 range of motherboards...
46 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/25/2021
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