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Asus adds AMD Ryzen Zen 5 Granite Ridge CPU support for its X670E motherboards
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Asus's latest BETA BIOS update brings Zen 5 support to some of its X670E motherboards, hinting that AMD's Zen 5 chips are just around the corner.
Snapdragon X Elite beats AMD and Intel flagship mobile CPUs in Geekbench 6
By Aaron Klotz published
The Snapdragon X Elite has show up in Geekbench 6, and it's beating the top mobile CPUs from AMD and Intel. It's another impressive result for Qualcomm's new ARM laptop CPU.
World's first hybrid CXL device combines flash memory and DRAM — storage tiering comes to remote memory over PCIe
By Aaron Klotz published
Adding more DDR5 memory to your server is no longer the only way to increase RAM capacity.
AMD lists three new Ryzen Zen 3+ processors — without integrated graphics
By Christopher Harper published
A stealth AMD website listing of new Ryzen 7030 Series CPUs based on Zen 3+ "Rembrandt" but with their iGPUs disabled points to an upcoming launch.
AMD 170W Granite Ridge Zen 5 CPUs and 128W Strix Point APUs revealed in shipping manifest
By Aaron Klotz published
AMD is making a lot of new CPUs right now.
AMD says the UCIe universal chiplet interface will create a whole ecosystem — custom multi-chiplet designs are the future
By Anton Shilov published
AMD believes in UCIe and chiplet ecosystem, but remains tight-lipped whether it plans to make UCIe-compatible chiplets.
Granite Rapids shows up on CPU-Z boasting 80 cores and 672MB of L3 cache
By Aaron Klotz published
But, the 320 thread count is probably fake
Half of Russian-made chips are defective: Baikal struggles to meet Russia's demand
By Anton Shilov published
Russian companies fail to package already made silicon: 50% of processors get ruined at final stage of manufacturing. This is limiting the quantity of Baikal's CPUs that make it to market.
Intel confirms Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs, next-gen AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance
By Paul Alcorn published
Intel executives confirmed today that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally on PCs and have a requirement for a minimum of 40 TOPS of NPU performance.
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