AMD
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 Demonstrates FreeSync-over-HDMI Concept Hardware at Computex 2015
While AMD wasn’t the first GPU vendor to implement a system for variable refresh, the company has made up for lost time with zeal. Since demonstrating their FreeSync proof-of-concept...
91 by Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 6/3/2015
AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement
After an earlier vague deadline of Q2’15 and more than a few teases in the interim, AMD has finally announced when they’ll be revealing their forthcoming high-end video card. AMD...
41 by Ryan Smith on 6/2/2015
AMD Launches Carrizo: The Laptop Leap of Efficiency and Architecture Updates
Perform a small test for me. Close your eyes, and spend 15 seconds considering the state of the laptop market and what devices interest you, are available, or on...
144 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2015
AMD Picks Up Jim Anderson from Intel To Lead Computing and Graphics Business Group
Word comes from AMD this afternoon that they have finally found a new Senior VP and General Manager for the company’s Computing and Graphics business group. The group has...
30 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2015
The Kaveri Refresh 'Godavari' Review: Testing AMD's A10-7870K
Astute readers will recognize that we recently posted two reviews covering more of the stack of AMD processors with the codename 'Kaveri' which covered the A6-7400K, A8-7650K and the...
140 by Ian Cutress on 6/1/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.5 Beta Drivers
AMD has pushed out another Catalyst beta driver update this afternoon, bringing their latest drivers up to Catalyst 15.5 beta. The release notes for this driver indicate that it’s...
18 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2015
The AMD A10-7700K and AMD A6-7400K CPU Mini-Review
In recent months and quarters I have had discussions about why CPU manufacturers offer a number of processors each separated by $7 and 100 MHz. The obvious answer (but...
105 by Ian Cutress on 5/27/2015
2015 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s dGPU (R9 M370X) Is Cape Verde
Earlier this week Apple announced their 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro. Though Apple didn’t make any CPU changes, they did make some GPU changes on the high-end model, swapping...
109 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2015
AMD Teases Upcoming Video Card
Between Financial Analyst Day 2015, their briefing on High Bandwidth Memory, and now a carefully seeded hardware sample to DICE developer and uber guru Johan Andersson, AMD is making...
75 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2015
AMD Dives Deep On High Bandwidth Memory - What Will HBM Bring AMD?
Earlier this month at AMD’s 2015 Financial Analyst day, the company announced that they would be releasing their first High Bandwidth Memory-equipped GPU – the world’s first HBM-equipped GPU...
163 by Ryan Smith on 5/19/2015
Newegg Launches Official & Unofficial AMD Radeon R9 Game Bundles
Kudos to the PC Perspective crew for tracking this one down. It looks like Newegg is running a very unusual set of video game bundles with AMD’s higher-end Radeon...
67 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2015
The AMD A8-7650K APU Review, Also New Testing Methodology
The staggered birth of Kaveri has been an interesting story to cover but it has been difficult to keep all the pieces right in the forefront of memory. The...
177 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2015
AMD’s Carrizo-L APUs Unveiled: 12-25W Quad Core Puma+
One of the important press releases that came out as a result of the AMD Financial Analyst Day has been some insights into how AMD is approaching the Carrizo...
50 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2015
AMD Announces OEM Desktop Radeon 300 Series
Along with today’s announcement of the OEM mobile Radeon M300 series, AMD has also announced the OEM desktop Radeon 300 Series. This was a rather low-key launch with only...
74 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
Update: AMD Announces Radeon M300 Series Notebook Video Cards
Along with a bevy of roadmap announcements at financial analyst day, AMD has also slipped in a full-on mobile GPU announcement today at the event. Being announced today is the...
37 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
AMD Financial Analyst Day 2015 Round-Up
Having just wrapped up a bit ago is AMD’s 2015 Financial Analyst Day (FAD). For AMD FADs are a combination of roadmap updates and number breakdowns for financial analysts...
47 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
AMD’s 2016-2017 Datacenter Roadmap: x86, ARM, and GPGPU
As part of AMD’s business unit reorganization in 2014, many of AMD’s high-growth businesses were organized into a new group at the company, the Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom Business...
16 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
AMD To Launch New Desktop GPU This Quarter (Q2’15) With HBM
Having just left the stage at AMD’s financial analyst day is CEO Dr. Lisa Su, who was on stage to present an update on AMD’s computing and graphic business...
146 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
AMD Announces 6th Generation A-Series APU Branding - Carrizo Due This Quarter
Along with AMD’s roadmap announcements today at financial analyst day, AMD has also offered a brief update on the state of Carrizo, the company’s forthcoming next-generation mobile APU. Due...
24 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015
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