Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
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Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
AMD is working on "PRO" variants of its Strix Point APUs under the Ryzen AI 9 HX and Ryzen AI 7 series featuring up to 12 cores. AMD Plans To Make The "Ryzen AI 300" Series The Most Decorated Of All, Includes Pro Models as Well At Computex 2024, AMD revealed its next-gen lineup of APUs under the "Strix Point" or "Ryzen AI 300" series branding, which are seen as some of the most revolutionary processor designs for the mobile segment, catering to the massive hype of AI PCs. While we have a dedicated post on the SKUs up, for […]
AMD has declined the request of the AI startup Tiny Corp to put the Instinct MI300X AI accelerator on the MLPerf benchmarks. AMD Shows Reluctance With Instinct MI300X AI Accelerators & Its Performance, Rejects Benchmarking Request AMD's journey in the AI industry has been a roller coaster ride, and they are eager to achieve a breakthrough yet are restricted for multiple reasons. Despite having one of the most potent AI product lineups, AMD hasn't managed to attract market attention, well at least on the same level as NVIDIA but much better than what Intel has so far procured, where the […]
AMD says that the competitive nature of its Instinct GPUs made NVIDIA go all out with its own AI roadmap but the red team isn't going to go easy on them in the future. AMD Talks Yearly AI Instinct Accelerator Cadence, MI325X's Competitive Nature Against NVIDIA's Blackwell B100 & Hopper H200 & How They Scared The Green Giant Into Accelerating Its Roadmap The details come from CRN's interview with AMD's Executive Vice President & General Manager of Data Center Solutions Business Group, Forrest Norrod, who says that it was AMD and its Instinct GPU roadmap that made NVIDIA push the […]
AMD has officially launched its new ROCm 6.1.3 Open Compute software suite with added AI capabilities & support alongside the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU. AMD's ROCm 6.1.3 Software Stack Adds Multi-GPU Support, TensorFlow AI Framework Support & WSL 2 Support, Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU Hits Shelves For $3499 Announced at Computex 2024, AMD is formally launching its Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU in the retail segment. Priced at $3499 US, the Radeon PRO W7900 is said to offer leadership performance-per-dollar and a vast 48 GB memory pool, enabling faster performance within AI-oriented workloads such as […]
Intel has followed up on AMD's Data Center AI performance claims for its 5th Gen EPYC Turin CPUs, saying 5th Gen Xeon is faster with the right optimizations. AMD Showed Its 5th Gen EPYC Turin CPUs With Zen 5 Cores Beating 5th Gen Xeon Chips In AI Benchmarks But Intel Says That 5th Gen Leads Against EPYC When Right Optimizations Are Used [Update - 6/18/24] - AMD has offered us an update regarding the Intel benchmarks and shared that the endnotes did provide the relevant data regarding what hardware and software stack was used in their tests comparing Turin with […]
Tensorwave has published the latest benchmarks of the AMD MI300X in LLM Inference AI workloads, offering 3x higher performance than NVIDIA H100. AMD MI300X & NVIDIA H100 Go Head-To-Head In LLM Inference AI Benchmarks, Red Team Showcases A 3x Performance Uplift AI Cloud provider, Tensorwave, has showcased the performance of AMD's MI300 accelerator within AI LLM Inference benchmarks against the NVIDIA H100. The company is one of the many who are offering cloud instances powered by AMD's latest Instinct accelerators and it looks like AMD might just have the lead, not only in performance but also value. In a blog […]
AMD has announced their new AI-focused project, the "Peano", which is an open-source LLVM designed to cater to Ryzen's cutting-edge AI engines. AMD Now Makes Huge Progress For The Adoption of Ryzen AI "XDNA" NPU & Engines In Linux, Pushes Out Dedicated LLVM Compiler With the AI hype now transitioning into the personal computing segment, the trend of dedicated AI engines or so-called "NPUs" in modern-day processors has become the new norm, and every other firm is involved in racing against each other in the race of "TOPS", which represents AI compute power. Amid all, AMD has made a pretty […]
PowerColor teased a demo of its upcoming AMD Radeon RX GPUs that would utilize the power of NPUs to lower power consumption while gaming. PowerColor Is Working On A New Power Saving Tech Which Might Be Introduced With Next-Gen AMD Radeon RX GPUs & Makes Use of NPUs The information regarding PowerColor's new tech comes from @Harukaze5719 (via QuasarZone). As per the details, it looks like PowerColor is preparing to introduce some new technologies with next-gen AMD Radeon RX graphics cards. PowerColor integrated NPU to Radeon GPU. (Still developing)Through AI, they claim power consumption deceased 22%. More saved than AMD […]
The first benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU have leaked and they show some big uplifts in both CPU & GPU performance with Zen 5 & RDNA 3.5 cores. AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 170 APU Leak Shows Up To 20% Faster Zen 5 CPU & Up To 40% Faster RDNA 3.5 GPU Versus Previous Flagship, The Ryzen 9 8945HS Well that didn't take so long, AMD's first unofficial benchmarks of its upcoming Ryzen AI 300 APUs have started to leak out and they are very impressive in their first showcase. The chip in question […]
AMD has announced its brand new AI Accelerators including the Instinct MI325X "CDNA 3", MI350X "CDNA 4" & MI400 "CDNA Next" for data centers and the cloud. AMD Stacks Up Triple "Instinct" Attack Against NVIDIA In The AI Accelerator Segment: 288 GB MI325X "CDNA 3", MI350X "CDNA 4" In 2025 & MI400 "CDNA Next" In 2026 It looks like AMD is accelerating its AI Instinct accelerator roadmap quite aggressively following the recent and similar announcements by NVIDIA during their keynote. The company now plans to offer a new AI accelerator, either a refresh or a completely new product, each respective […]
AMD is reportedly facing "Soft" demand for its latest MI300X AI accelerator which might also push the refreshed MI350X back to 2026. Analyst Suggests AMD's AI Accelerator Demand Is Lower Than Expected, Cuts Down HBM Orders Massively & Shifting MI350X To A 2026 Launch When we talk about NVIDIA and their AI fortunes, we always keep AMD in parallel and infer why they haven't been able to replicate NVIDIA's success. For starters, their late entry into the AI markets is one solid reason. AMD debuted in the AI market with their new Instinct MI300 series much later than NVIDIA's counterparts, […]
AMD has shared some interesting data regarding the capabilities of its RDNA 3 GPU & XDNA NPU hardware in consumer-centric AI workloads. AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs & XDNA NPU Provide A Robust Suite of Consumer-Centric AI Capabilities On PC Platforms There's no doubt that AMD has been ahead of the curve in offering AI capabilities to a wider PC audience through the implementation of XDNA NPU on its Ryzen APUs. The first NPU launched back in 2023 with the Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" APUs and recently got updated with the Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" series. Besides the NPU, AMD's RDNA 3 […]
AMD is working on "PRO" variants of its Strix Point APUs under the Ryzen AI 9 HX and Ryzen AI 7 series featuring up to 12 cores. AMD Plans To Make The "Ryzen AI 300" Series The Most Decorated Of All, Includes Pro Models as Well At Computex 2024, AMD revealed its next-gen lineup of APUs under the "Strix Point" or "Ryzen AI 300" series branding, which are seen as some of the most revolutionary processor designs for the mobile segment, catering to the massive hype of AI PCs. While we have a dedicated post on the SKUs up, for […]
AMD has declined the request of the AI startup Tiny Corp to put the Instinct MI300X AI accelerator on the MLPerf benchmarks. AMD Shows Reluctance With Instinct MI300X AI Accelerators & Its Performance, Rejects Benchmarking Request AMD's journey in the AI industry has been a roller coaster ride, and they are eager to achieve a breakthrough yet are restricted for multiple reasons. Despite having one of the most potent AI product lineups, AMD hasn't managed to attract market attention, well at least on the same level as NVIDIA but much better than what Intel has so far procured, where the […]
AMD says that the competitive nature of its Instinct GPUs made NVIDIA go all out with its own AI roadmap but the red team isn't going to go easy on them in the future. AMD Talks Yearly AI Instinct Accelerator Cadence, MI325X's Competitive Nature Against NVIDIA's Blackwell B100 & Hopper H200 & How They Scared The Green Giant Into Accelerating Its Roadmap The details come from CRN's interview with AMD's Executive Vice President & General Manager of Data Center Solutions Business Group, Forrest Norrod, who says that it was AMD and its Instinct GPU roadmap that made NVIDIA push the […]
AMD has officially launched its new ROCm 6.1.3 Open Compute software suite with added AI capabilities & support alongside the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU. AMD's ROCm 6.1.3 Software Stack Adds Multi-GPU Support, TensorFlow AI Framework Support & WSL 2 Support, Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU Hits Shelves For $3499 Announced at Computex 2024, AMD is formally launching its Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU in the retail segment. Priced at $3499 US, the Radeon PRO W7900 is said to offer leadership performance-per-dollar and a vast 48 GB memory pool, enabling faster performance within AI-oriented workloads such as […]
Intel has followed up on AMD's Data Center AI performance claims for its 5th Gen EPYC Turin CPUs, saying 5th Gen Xeon is faster with the right optimizations. AMD Showed Its 5th Gen EPYC Turin CPUs With Zen 5 Cores Beating 5th Gen Xeon Chips In AI Benchmarks But Intel Says That 5th Gen Leads Against EPYC When Right Optimizations Are Used [Update - 6/18/24] - AMD has offered us an update regarding the Intel benchmarks and shared that the endnotes did provide the relevant data regarding what hardware and software stack was used in their tests comparing Turin with […]
Tensorwave has published the latest benchmarks of the AMD MI300X in LLM Inference AI workloads, offering 3x higher performance than NVIDIA H100. AMD MI300X & NVIDIA H100 Go Head-To-Head In LLM Inference AI Benchmarks, Red Team Showcases A 3x Performance Uplift AI Cloud provider, Tensorwave, has showcased the performance of AMD's MI300 accelerator within AI LLM Inference benchmarks against the NVIDIA H100. The company is one of the many who are offering cloud instances powered by AMD's latest Instinct accelerators and it looks like AMD might just have the lead, not only in performance but also value. In a blog […]
AMD has announced their new AI-focused project, the "Peano", which is an open-source LLVM designed to cater to Ryzen's cutting-edge AI engines. AMD Now Makes Huge Progress For The Adoption of Ryzen AI "XDNA" NPU & Engines In Linux, Pushes Out Dedicated LLVM Compiler With the AI hype now transitioning into the personal computing segment, the trend of dedicated AI engines or so-called "NPUs" in modern-day processors has become the new norm, and every other firm is involved in racing against each other in the race of "TOPS", which represents AI compute power. Amid all, AMD has made a pretty […]
PowerColor teased a demo of its upcoming AMD Radeon RX GPUs that would utilize the power of NPUs to lower power consumption while gaming. PowerColor Is Working On A New Power Saving Tech Which Might Be Introduced With Next-Gen AMD Radeon RX GPUs & Makes Use of NPUs The information regarding PowerColor's new tech comes from @Harukaze5719 (via QuasarZone). As per the details, it looks like PowerColor is preparing to introduce some new technologies with next-gen AMD Radeon RX graphics cards. PowerColor integrated NPU to Radeon GPU. (Still developing)Through AI, they claim power consumption deceased 22%. More saved than AMD […]
The first benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU have leaked and they show some big uplifts in both CPU & GPU performance with Zen 5 & RDNA 3.5 cores. AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 170 APU Leak Shows Up To 20% Faster Zen 5 CPU & Up To 40% Faster RDNA 3.5 GPU Versus Previous Flagship, The Ryzen 9 8945HS Well that didn't take so long, AMD's first unofficial benchmarks of its upcoming Ryzen AI 300 APUs have started to leak out and they are very impressive in their first showcase. The chip in question […]
AMD has announced its brand new AI Accelerators including the Instinct MI325X "CDNA 3", MI350X "CDNA 4" & MI400 "CDNA Next" for data centers and the cloud. AMD Stacks Up Triple "Instinct" Attack Against NVIDIA In The AI Accelerator Segment: 288 GB MI325X "CDNA 3", MI350X "CDNA 4" In 2025 & MI400 "CDNA Next" In 2026 It looks like AMD is accelerating its AI Instinct accelerator roadmap quite aggressively following the recent and similar announcements by NVIDIA during their keynote. The company now plans to offer a new AI accelerator, either a refresh or a completely new product, each respective […]
AMD is reportedly facing "Soft" demand for its latest MI300X AI accelerator which might also push the refreshed MI350X back to 2026. Analyst Suggests AMD's AI Accelerator Demand Is Lower Than Expected, Cuts Down HBM Orders Massively & Shifting MI350X To A 2026 Launch When we talk about NVIDIA and their AI fortunes, we always keep AMD in parallel and infer why they haven't been able to replicate NVIDIA's success. For starters, their late entry into the AI markets is one solid reason. AMD debuted in the AI market with their new Instinct MI300 series much later than NVIDIA's counterparts, […]
AMD has shared some interesting data regarding the capabilities of its RDNA 3 GPU & XDNA NPU hardware in consumer-centric AI workloads. AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs & XDNA NPU Provide A Robust Suite of Consumer-Centric AI Capabilities On PC Platforms There's no doubt that AMD has been ahead of the curve in offering AI capabilities to a wider PC audience through the implementation of XDNA NPU on its Ryzen APUs. The first NPU launched back in 2023 with the Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" APUs and recently got updated with the Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" series. Besides the NPU, AMD's RDNA 3 […]