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AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share

By Anton Shilov published

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.

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Tachyum

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

By Anton Shilov published

Premium Final specifications after six years of waiting may set the stage for another major delay

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AMD's Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores

By Bruno Ferreira published

AMD's Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores

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AMD K6 and FX-8350

AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025

By Aaron Klotz published

An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.

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AMD RDNA 3 GPU Architecture Deep Dive

AMD reveals new CPU roadmap with Zen 6 slated for 2026, confirms Zen 7 for the first-time

By Hassam Nasir published

Nothing exciting, but lots to look forward to.

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Ryzen 7000 CPU

AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC

By Jowi Morales published

This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.

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Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks

By Mark Tyson published

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.

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Ryzen 7000

AMD's budget Ryzen 5 7500X3D leaks out in early benchmarks, scores hint at performance on par with existing 7600X3D

By Hassam Nasir last updated

The cheapest X3D chip on the AM5 platform.

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Raptor Lake CPU

$5,000 Corsair pre-built keeps on frying Intel CPUs due to lack of BIOS update, tech alleges

By Jowi Morales published

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.

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AMD 3D V-Cache

AMD prepping new X3D chip with higher clock speeds

By Kunal Khullar published

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9700X3D appears on PassMark, hinting at a lower-cost alternative to the 9800X3D for gamers.

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