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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 Launches new Coolers and 65W Kaveri APUs: the A10-7860K and A6-7470K
Over the past two years we’ve reviewed almost every AMD Kaveri desktop processor to have been released – the A10-7850K, the A8-7600, the A10-7800, the A8-7650K, the A4-7400K, the...
18 by Ian Cutress on 2/2/2016
GDDR5X Standard Finalized by JEDEC: New Graphics Memory up to 14 Gbps
In Q4 2015, JEDEC (a major semiconductor engineering trade organization that sets standards for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM) finalized the GDDR5X specification, with accompianing white papers. This...
70 by Anton Shilov on 1/22/2016
JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016
AMD Reports Q4 2015 Results And FY 2015 Earnings
Today AMD released their quarterly earnings for Q4 of Fiscal Year 2015. AMD continues to struggle financially, and for Q4 they had revenues of $958 million, down 10% from...
69 by Brett Howse on 1/19/2016
The Silver Lining of the Late AMD Opteron A1100 Arrival
AMD announced their ARM server SoC plans at the end of 2012. At the beginning of 2014, AMD was ready "to accelerate the ARM Server Ecosystem with the first...
37 by Johan De Gelas on 1/14/2016
AMD Releases Crimson 16.1 Hotfix Drivers
This week AMD has pushed out their first video driver release of the year, Crimson 16.1 Hotfix. Between this latest hotfix and their previous Crimson update, AMD is making...
35 by Daniel Williams on 1/12/2016
AMD Cuts Price of Radeon R9 Nano to $499
Word comes from AMD via a press release this morning that they are giving the Radeon R9 Nano a price cut. AMD’s diminutive flagship, which launched in September 2015...
74 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2016
AMD Announces A10-7890K APU and Upgrades Desktop Platforms
AMD plans to improve performance of its desktop computing platforms by launching a new accelerated processing unit as well as another generation of AM3+ and FM2+ motherboards with USB...
60 by Anton Shilov on 1/9/2016
AMD Reveals Wraith: Next-Generation Cooler for Microprocessors
Both AMD and Intel bundle cooling solutions with their microprocessors. Such coolers are inexpensive, they are rather reliable and they do their job. They are not supposed to enable...
54 by Anton Shilov on 1/8/2016
MAINGEAR Rolls-Out 34” All-in-One PC with 18-Core Xeon, GeForce GTX Titan X
The concept of the all-in-one desktop personal computer was created to save space and simplify design of PCs. While there have been a number of traditional AIO desktops available...
14 by Anton Shilov on 1/5/2016
AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive In Mid-2016
For much of the last month we have been discussing bits and pieces of AMD’s GPU plans for 2016. As part of the Radeon Technology Group’s formation last year...
153 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016
AMD Dual-Fiji “Gemini” Video Card Delayed To 2016, Aligned With VR Headset Launches
I’m going to start off this post a little differently tonight. Since our DX12 Ashes of the Singularity article back in October, I have been looking for an opportunity...
43 by Ryan Smith on 12/22/2015
AMD Releases Crimson 15.12 WHQL Drivers
Just last month we saw the release of AMDs new Radeon Software Crimson Edition. This release included the brand new Radeon Settings and promised a new commitment to more...
33 by Daniel Williams on 12/18/2015
Sapphire Readies Nitro R9 Fury: Custom Design and Enhanced Performance
Sapphire Technology is preparing to release its new graphics card — the Nitro R9 Fury — based on AMD’s Fiji graphics processing unit that features its own custom printed...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/17/2015
AMD's 2016 Linux Driver Plans & GPUOpen Family of Dev Tools: Investing In Open Source
Earlier this month AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group held an event to brief the press of their plans for 2016. Part of a larger shift for RTG as they work...
49 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2015
AMD Discusses 2016 Radeon Visual Technologies Roadmap
This is something that initially caught me off-guard when I first realized it, but AMD historically hasn’t liked to talk about their GPU plans much in advance. On the...
99 by Ryan Smith on 12/8/2015
AMD Announces FirePro W4300: Low Profile FirePro
With the slower release cadence for AMD’s FirePro professional cards, we tend to only hear from the FirePro group once or twice per year. And with the last update...
17 by Ryan Smith on 12/1/2015
AMD Releasing New Crimson Drivers for GPU Fan Issue (Update: Released)
Update: AMD has now released the fixed driver, Crimson 15.11.1 Beta. This release also contains several other fixes according to AMD's notes, including further game fixes and some Radeon...
45 by Ian Cutress on 11/30/2015
AMD Moves Radeon HD 5000 & 6000 Series to Legacy Status - All Pre-Graphics Core Next GPUs Now Retired
Alongside today’s release of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver set, AMD has published a new page on their driver site announcing that video cards based on the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 11/24/2015
AMD's Radeon Software Crimson Driver Released: New Features & A New Look
At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst...
146 by Ryan Smith & Daniel Williams on 11/24/2015
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