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The real 'world's first microprocessor' was a classified military secret for nearly 30 years.
AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share
AMD continued to its CPU market share gains Q3 2025, surpassing one-quarter of all x86 CPU shipments and one-third of desktop shipments as Intel declined in desktops, laptops, and servers.
After six years of promises and no shipping silicon, Tachyum revises Prodigy processor specs with claims it is 20 times faster than Nvidia's Rubin NVL576 rack
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AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025
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