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 […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
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 officially lifted the curtains off its next-generation Ryzen 9000 Dekstop CPUs that are going to feature the Zen 5 core architecture at Computex 2024. The next-generation lineup will be bringing some drastic changes, not only limited to the CPU and we are going to talk about what you can expect in terms of specifications, performance, and prices. AMD Ryzen 9000 'Zen 5' Desktop CPUs, 4nm Upgraded Architecture For The AM5 Platform It's been more than a year since AMD first introduced its AM5 platform alongside a brand new CPU family which we all know as Ryzen 7000 "Raphael". These […]
AMD has brought in new RDNA 4 GPU-targeted patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11, this time including numerous adjustments & DCC enablement. AMD Looks Ready For On-Launch Support At Linux With RDNA 4 "Radeon RX 8000" GPUs, Posts Further Patches Contributing To The Performance Team Red has sped up things with pull requests on Linux when it comes to RDNA 4 support on the platform, and with the firm's "IP blocks" approach, they have indeed found themselves successful in putting out pre-launch support. Recently, we talked about how AMD brought in GFX12 support in Linux's kernel driver. Now, the firm […]
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's Strix Halo APUs might feature some massive memory pools based on the latest shipping logs which point out up to 128 GB capacities. AMD's Strix Halo To Be An Enthusiast-Tier APU Platform: Featuring Powerful CPU, GPU Cores With Lots of Memory & Untapped Power We have covered AMD's Strix Halo APUs in the past with the most recent post about them talking about the reference "Maple" Reference Evaluation Boards. These REVB products were discovered within the shipping logs from nbd.ltd. The last entries featured 32 GB and 64 GB configurations but the latest one doubles the memory pool which […]
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's Strix Point "Ryzen AI 9 365" Zen 5 APU has reportedly been tested by David Huang, who has an in-depth analysis of the IPC, latency & performance. AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 "Strix Point" APU Gets Tested In A Multitude of Benchmarks Ahead of Launch, Zen 5's IPC, Throughput, Latency & More Detailed Note - David Huang's blog states that the numbers mentioned here are based on an engineering sample of the AMD Strix Point APU, mainly the Ryzen AI 9 365, so take these with a grain of salt as these may not be representative of the final […]
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 […]
Maxsun went all-in on the MoTD "Mobile on Desktop" motherboard designs with new Intel & AMD options showcased at Computex. Maxsun Has A Wide Range of Intel & AMD "MoTD" Motherboards In The Works Featuring Current-Gen & Next-Gen CPUs We managed to get a close-up of Maxsun's full MoTD (Mobile on Desktop) motherboards during our visit of their booth. The company currently has several designs based on current-gen Intel & AMD CPUs such as Raptor Lake (13th/14th Gen), Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 100) and AMD's Ryzen Hawk Point (8040 series) but the company also told us that they are planning […]
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 […]
AMD has been suspected of a major data breach following a hack by hacker group, IntelBroker, that occurred this month, reports Bloomberg. AMD's Servers Possibly Breached By Hacking Group, Compromised Data Reportedly Includes Info On Existing, Next-Gen Products, Employee Info & More It is reported that AMD is currently investigating a claim of breach within its data networks which may have compromised several confidential files which might potentially include product details, source codes, future product plans, and employee information such as User IDs, emails, etc. The whole list of data that may have been compromised has been listed by HackRead […]
AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI 300 Laptops are reportedly going to launch on the 15th of July as per the latest listing over at BestBuy. AMD Ryzen AI 300 Laptops Coming To Retail Next Month, Combine High-Performance Zen 5 CPU & RDNA 3.5 GPU Cores With 50 AI TOPS NPU Given the AI PC craze at the moment, all CPU vendors have accelerated their next-gen chips to launch within the Q3 2024 time frame. AMD was the first to the AI PC segment with its Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" lineup last year followed by an AI-boosted Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" launch in […]
AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix" APU has been benchmarked in Cinebench and 3DMark, delivering some huge performance gains over the last gen. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU Shows Strong CPU & GPU Performance Increase In Cinebench & 3DMark Benchmarks Thanks To Zen 5 & RDNA 3.5 Prowess The latest benchmarks come from GPD which will be utilizing the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU within its DUO laptop which features two 13.3" displays jam-packed together. The GPU DUO is going to be a multi-functional design that can be converted into a tablet and various other […]
AMD officially lifted the curtains off its next-generation Ryzen 9000 Dekstop CPUs that are going to feature the Zen 5 core architecture at Computex 2024. The next-generation lineup will be bringing some drastic changes, not only limited to the CPU and we are going to talk about what you can expect in terms of specifications, performance, and prices. AMD Ryzen 9000 'Zen 5' Desktop CPUs, 4nm Upgraded Architecture For The AM5 Platform It's been more than a year since AMD first introduced its AM5 platform alongside a brand new CPU family which we all know as Ryzen 7000 "Raphael". These […]
AMD has brought in new RDNA 4 GPU-targeted patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11, this time including numerous adjustments & DCC enablement. AMD Looks Ready For On-Launch Support At Linux With RDNA 4 "Radeon RX 8000" GPUs, Posts Further Patches Contributing To The Performance Team Red has sped up things with pull requests on Linux when it comes to RDNA 4 support on the platform, and with the firm's "IP blocks" approach, they have indeed found themselves successful in putting out pre-launch support. Recently, we talked about how AMD brought in GFX12 support in Linux's kernel driver. Now, the firm […]
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's Strix Halo APUs might feature some massive memory pools based on the latest shipping logs which point out up to 128 GB capacities. AMD's Strix Halo To Be An Enthusiast-Tier APU Platform: Featuring Powerful CPU, GPU Cores With Lots of Memory & Untapped Power We have covered AMD's Strix Halo APUs in the past with the most recent post about them talking about the reference "Maple" Reference Evaluation Boards. These REVB products were discovered within the shipping logs from nbd.ltd. The last entries featured 32 GB and 64 GB configurations but the latest one doubles the memory pool which […]
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's Strix Point "Ryzen AI 9 365" Zen 5 APU has reportedly been tested by David Huang, who has an in-depth analysis of the IPC, latency & performance. AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 "Strix Point" APU Gets Tested In A Multitude of Benchmarks Ahead of Launch, Zen 5's IPC, Throughput, Latency & More Detailed Note - David Huang's blog states that the numbers mentioned here are based on an engineering sample of the AMD Strix Point APU, mainly the Ryzen AI 9 365, so take these with a grain of salt as these may not be representative of the final […]
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 […]
Maxsun went all-in on the MoTD "Mobile on Desktop" motherboard designs with new Intel & AMD options showcased at Computex. Maxsun Has A Wide Range of Intel & AMD "MoTD" Motherboards In The Works Featuring Current-Gen & Next-Gen CPUs We managed to get a close-up of Maxsun's full MoTD (Mobile on Desktop) motherboards during our visit of their booth. The company currently has several designs based on current-gen Intel & AMD CPUs such as Raptor Lake (13th/14th Gen), Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 100) and AMD's Ryzen Hawk Point (8040 series) but the company also told us that they are planning […]
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 […]
AMD has been suspected of a major data breach following a hack by hacker group, IntelBroker, that occurred this month, reports Bloomberg. AMD's Servers Possibly Breached By Hacking Group, Compromised Data Reportedly Includes Info On Existing, Next-Gen Products, Employee Info & More It is reported that AMD is currently investigating a claim of breach within its data networks which may have compromised several confidential files which might potentially include product details, source codes, future product plans, and employee information such as User IDs, emails, etc. The whole list of data that may have been compromised has been listed by HackRead […]
AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI 300 Laptops are reportedly going to launch on the 15th of July as per the latest listing over at BestBuy. AMD Ryzen AI 300 Laptops Coming To Retail Next Month, Combine High-Performance Zen 5 CPU & RDNA 3.5 GPU Cores With 50 AI TOPS NPU Given the AI PC craze at the moment, all CPU vendors have accelerated their next-gen chips to launch within the Q3 2024 time frame. AMD was the first to the AI PC segment with its Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" lineup last year followed by an AI-boosted Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" launch in […]
AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix" APU has been benchmarked in Cinebench and 3DMark, delivering some huge performance gains over the last gen. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU Shows Strong CPU & GPU Performance Increase In Cinebench & 3DMark Benchmarks Thanks To Zen 5 & RDNA 3.5 Prowess The latest benchmarks come from GPD which will be utilizing the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU within its DUO laptop which features two 13.3" displays jam-packed together. The GPU DUO is going to be a multi-functional design that can be converted into a tablet and various other […]