Zen 5
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64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests — 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted
By Hassam Nasir published
AMD is shipping a handful of upcoming Ryzen 9000 Threadripper CPUs to its global testing facilities, hinting at a near-future launch.

AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node — also announces USA production of current-gen chips
By Anton Shilov published
AMD tapes out and powers on a 2nm CCD for its 6th Generation EPYC 'Venice' processor.

Chinese project aims to run RISC-V code on AMD Zen processors
By Anton Shilov published
A new contest inspired by Google's Zentool challenges developers to modify AMD Zen CPU microcode to run RISC-V programs natively, but experts argue the goal is unfeasible.

AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD's top laptop CPUs
By Sunny Grimm published
AMD has announced its Ryzen 8000HX line of processors, codenamed Dragon Range Refresh. The premium laptop processors will launch with products soon.

AMD Zen 5 CPUs also affected by microcode vulnerability
By Hassam Nasir published
A vulnerability targeting AMD CPUs that can execute unsigned microcode on your processor also affects AMD's Zen 5.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Review: 3D V-Cache's Middle Child Needs a Price Cut
By Paul Alcorn published
We put AMD's $600 Ryzen 9 9900X3D through our full gamut of benchmarks. It performs like fast 6-core CPU in a lot of games, which puts it behind both the 9800X3D and 9950X3D.

Retail Asus listing confirms AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs
By Sunny Grimm published
AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had more details revealed thanks to a new Asus listing on a Chinese retailer.

AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' CPUs see 14% higher performance on average with Ubuntu 25.04 beta release
By Hassam Nasir published
Ubuntu 25.04 brings several performance enhancements for AMD's EPYC Turin processors, providing 14% higher average performance and reaching up to 75% in some workloads.
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