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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 Announces the 7th Generation APU: Excavator mk2 in Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge for Notebooks
The Carrizo SoC, using Excavator cores, was touted in the press as being the biggest upgrade to the base Bulldozer design since the introduction of Bulldozer itself. This was...
69 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016
Computex 2016: AMD Press Conference Live Blog
I'm here at the Westin Taipei for AMDs Computex Press Conference. We've just posted some news, and we get to hear some more!
29 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.3
New technologies come along, new games release, things break, and developers fix them. As this cycle continues we are brought to this latest update from AMD which gives us...
10 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016
AMD Announces Computex 2016 Webcast: May 31st, 7pm Pacific
With the annual Computex Taipei trade show quickly approaching, AMD sends word that they will be hosting a live webcast for their annual press conference at the show. The...
50 by Ryan Smith on 5/20/2016
AMD Changes SSD Strategy: High-End M.2/NVMe SSDs Incoming, Low-Cost R3 Drives Are Here
Over the past week or so, we noticed other news outlets reporting on the AMD R3 series of SSDs, as if there had been a recent press release circulating...
47 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2016
AMD Quietly Unveils Radeon M400 Series: Starting With Rebadges
As our long-time readers are keenly aware, the product cycles followed by PC OEMs and ODMs for their laptops and desktops are rarely perfectly in sync with the development...
49 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Pro Duo: Dual Fiji, 350W, $1500
These recent years we have seen a slow but steady buildup of VR from both technological developments to growing enthusiasm shown by consumers and the industry. Today AMD is...
63 by Daniel Williams on 4/26/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 Hotfix
With a couple of weeks since their last driver release, AMD has handed us another update. Alongside a list of fixes, and a focus on a narrow set of...
5 by Daniel Williams on 4/26/2016
AMD Reports Q1 FY 2016 Results: Lower Revenue But New IP Licensing Agreement Reached
AMD announced their first quarter results from fiscal year 2016. AMD has certainly been struggling of late, but CEO Lisa Su made the announcement that AMD had made a...
21 by Brett Howse on 4/21/2016
China Calling: AMD Forms Joint Venture for x86 Server SoCs in China
As part of the release of AMD’s Q1 2016 financial results (more on that later today) the company is announcing that they are forming a new joint venture to...
32 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2016
Compulab fitlet-XA10-LAN Review: A Fanless AMD UCFF PC for Networking Applications
Passively cooled computing systems carry many advantages. Most of these turn out to be very important for industrial and embedded applications. The attention paid by AMD and Intel to...
50 by Ganesh T S on 4/19/2016
ASUS Announces Three New Displays with Adaptive-Sync Technology
ASUS has introduced three new inexpensive displays for gamers with full-HD and 4K resolution: the MG248Q, the MG28UQ and the MG24UQ. The new monitors support VESA’s Adaptive-Sync technology and...
42 by Anton Shilov on 4/15/2016
AMD Announces 32GB FirePro W9100 - Pro Graphics Gets a Memory Bump
Thanks to the further proliferation of 8Gb GDDR5 memory modules, we’ve seen an uplift over the last few months with the memory capacity of professional graphics cards. For the...
29 by Ryan Smith on 4/14/2016-page-002_carousel.jpg)
AMD Pre-Announces Bristol Ridge in Notebooks: The 7th Generation APU
For anyone tracking AMD’s family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), the last generation Carrizo was launched back in the middle of 2015. This was based on the fourth iteration...
38 by Ian Cutress on 4/5/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Hotfix - Game Ready Support for Quantum Break
Another week another driver release, at least that feels like the way of it now. While some of AMD’s driver releases lately have been light on features and fixes...
12 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2016
AMD Announces FirePro S9300 X2: Dual Fiji for HPC
One of the more interesting consequences of GPUs being built on TSMC’s 28nm process for an extended period of time is that it has forced both vendors to compensate...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/31/2016
Micron Begins to Sample GDDR5X Memory, Unveils Specs of Chips
This past week Micron has quietly added its GDDR5X memory chips to its product catalogue and revealed that the DRAM devices are currently sampling to partners. The company also...
37 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2016
Oculus Rift Launch Day News: New AMD & NVIDIA Drivers; Async Timewarp & Platform Restrictions Added To SDK
After just over three and a half years and a Facebook acquisition in between, Oculus’s first-generation Rift headset is launching today. We took a hands-on preview of the headset...
11 by Ryan Smith on 3/28/2016
AMD Updates Gaming Evolved Client
Game streaming and recording has continued to be both a growing hobby and profession for many in recent years. Anytime there is growing interest in anything from society there...
5 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.1 Hotfix
Following last week's release of Radeon Software 16.3 Hotfix, AMD is back again with a quick update to their driver set, bringing it to 16.3.1 Hotfix. The list of resolved...
7 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016
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