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Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs
Dell and HP are shipping many entry-level and midrange business laptops with HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding intentionally disabled, likely to avoid rising codec royalty costs.
AMD's Linux kernel patches suggest enablement of Instinct MI400-series GPU accelerators
AMD begins hardware enablement for GFX 12.1 IP, which could point to next-generation Instinct MI400-series GPUs, or future integrated GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture.
MSI MPG X870I Edge Ti Evo Wifi Review: Three M.2’s and smokin’ fast memory support
MSI’s X870I Edge Ti Evo Wifi is a premium Mini-ITX board, and the only one from this generation with three M.2 sockets. It comes handsomely equipped, but the $449 price is tough to swallow.
AMD announces FSR Redstone premiere on December 10th
AMD's Jack Huynh releases a teaser trailer on X, announcing December 10th as the premiere date for FSR Redstone.
AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system
Some racks will even use Rhea2.
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.
DARPA invests $1.4 billion to build experimental Texas foundry for next-generation 3D chips
Premium A new DARPA- and Texas-backed facility will focus on 3D heterogeneous integration, stacking, and combining multiple materials and chip types to advance U.S. capabilities in defense, AI, and HPC.
AMD users flag heavy SSD write activity tied to chipset driver
AMD chipset driver possibly shortens SSD life, behavior alarms users — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized.
