Latest CPUs News
AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025
An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.
AMD reveals new CPU roadmap with Zen 6 slated for 2026, confirms Zen 7 for the first-time
Nothing exciting, but lots to look forward to.
AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC
This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.
Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks
Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.
AMD's budget Ryzen 5 7500X3D leaks out in early benchmarks, scores hint at performance on par with existing 7600X3D
The cheapest X3D chip on the AM5 platform.
$5,000 Corsair pre-built keeps on frying Intel CPUs due to lack of BIOS update, tech alleges
Corsair still hasn't released the latest 0x12F Vmin instability fix for its pre-built computers, leading to multiple, repeated failures for some of its customers.
AMD prepping new X3D chip with higher clock speeds
AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9700X3D appears on PassMark, hinting at a lower-cost alternative to the 9800X3D for gamers.
AMD confirms security vulnerability on Zen 5-based CPUs that generates potentially predictable keys
RDSEED failures are incorrectly being flagged as correct, leading to potentially predictable encryption keys being generated by the random number generator.
