Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers' Want all-FOSS 120Hz 4K video on Linux, or 5K at 240Hz? Bad news… Personal Tech02 Mar 2024 | 69
AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023 Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years Systems09 Feb 2024 | 3
AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry Systems07 Feb 2024 | 6
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ... AI + ML03 Feb 2024 | 7
AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone On-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 2
Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats So much for isolation Research17 Jan 2024 | 1
AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards CES The House of Zen's aging Ryzen 5000 processors get some love too Systems08 Jan 2024 | 2
AMD talks up car chips it hopes will join you for a ride some time soon +Comment 'New' ADAS and infotainment parts powered by older FPGAs and earlier cores. It's good enough for Tesla Personal Tech04 Jan 2024 | 13
2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon Comment Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Analysis Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid On-Prem26 Dec 2023 | 60
Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims Analysis My card could beat up your card On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 16
Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it Oh and it's got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot Systems14 Dec 2023 | 5
When it comes to AMD's latest AI chips, it's follow the money and the memory Kettle Don't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Systems12 Dec 2023 | 7
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years Systems08 Dec 2023 | 11
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 Systems06 Dec 2023 | 8
AMD SEV OMG: Trusted execution in VMs undone by bad hypervisors' cache meddling Let's do the CacheWarp again Research14 Nov 2023 | 7
Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip Systems23 Oct 2023 | 62
AMD gives 7000-series Threadrippers a frequency bump with Epyc core counts Workstation CPUs hit 96 cores, high-end desktops get 64. Prices nearly as high as clock speeds Systems20 Oct 2023 | 15
Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations Analysis Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work Systems13 Oct 2023 | 10
AMD graphics card users report gremlins with Windows 11 It looks like you spent hours tuning your settings – shall I reset them for you? OSes03 Oct 2023 | 13
AMD's latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong? Systems29 Sep 2023 | 5
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 9
AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge Little chip promises big power savings Systems18 Sep 2023 |
AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased Hot Chips Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket Networks29 Aug 2023 | 4
Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels Hot Chips Plus more insights on x86 titan's all E-core datacenter chips Systems28 Aug 2023 | 17
Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is Summer push proved less disruptive than feared OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons Cloud Infrastructure Week21 Aug 2023 |
Nearly every AMD CPU since 2017 vulnerable to Inception data-leak attacks It's like a nesting doll of security flaws Patches09 Aug 2023 | 32
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10
Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Storage08 Aug 2023 | 7
Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock paywalled features Black Hat Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why? Black Hat and DEF CON07 Aug 2023 | 55
AMD says it'll jump through Uncle Sam's hoops to sell AI chips to China Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 2
AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94% Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su On-Prem02 Aug 2023 | 2
Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret Research01 Aug 2023 | 4
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all OSes31 Jul 2023 | 72
School for semiconductors? Arm tries to address chip talent shortages US, Europe and China all rushing to create next gen of experts and upskill existing workforce Systems28 Jul 2023 | 35
AMD Zenbleed chip bug leaks secrets fast and easy Zen 2 flaw more simple than Spectre, exploit code already out there – get patching when you can CSO24 Jul 2023 | 64
AMD mulls new chip manufacturing partners amid supply chain jitters TSMC has too much capacity when China has made no secret of its desire for Taiwan Systems24 Jul 2023 | 9
A mix-and-match chiplet marketplace for processor makers is still a long way off Analysis Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express is on the rails On-Prem01 Jul 2023 | 6
AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips But can it run Crysis? Systems27 Jun 2023 | 16
AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15
AMD seeks luck of the Irish with $135M investment for adaptive computing R&D Pales in comparison to to rival Intel's presence in Dublin... for now Systems21 Jun 2023 |
Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1
AMD's latest Epycs are bristling with cores, stacked to the gills with cache Zen giant's Instinct MI300 APUs, GPUs not quite ready for limelight Systems13 Jun 2023 |
AMD extends Ryzen 7000 range to enterprise with Pro chips Lines itself up against Apple's M2 Pro on battery life stakes, talks up AI abilities Systems13 Jun 2023 | 3
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip? Systems01 Jun 2023 |
Windows driver woes trip AMD GPU owners, blind Arm-powered cameras Rollbacks and workarounds abound OSes30 May 2023 | 12
AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us? Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 17
AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web? Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 7
AMD reveals Azure is offering its SmartNICs as-a-service Still smiling despite Q1 PC chip sales slumping 65 points and flat server sales On-Prem03 May 2023 |
AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips Updated Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 9
Are accelerators the cure to video's power problem or just an excuse to peddle GPUs? Analysis You could just watch less TikTok or Twitch, maybe go outside Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 17
It's time to stop fearing CPU power management Feature It's (probably) not going to kill your latency and it could save you a buck Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 11
Samsung scores fresh Radeon deal with AMD for Exynos chip line ahead of profit crunch Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years Systems06 Apr 2023 | 2
Intel successfully ships an updated datacenter roadmap What we may well see in 2023 and beyond Systems30 Mar 2023 | 6
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1