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'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 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 […]
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 […]
Today, AMD debuts its Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" APU family for the AI PC segment, featuring a new Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU, and XDNA 2 NPU cores. AMD Tackles Snapdragon X With Its Next-Gen Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" APUs, Combine Latest Zen 5, RDNA 3.5 & XDNA 2 IPs The AI PC ecosystem is evolving by the second as everyone tries to get a piece of the cake. AMD was essentially the first chipmaker to introduce an "AI PC" SOC with its Phoenix APU family back in 2023 and this was followed by the release of the much […]
AMD is ending its HS, H & U branding which helped distinguish between Ryzen Mobile CPUs & adopting the "Ryzen AI" naming convention across all next-gen SKUs starting Strix Point. AMD "Ryzen AI" Branding To Be Used Across All Next-Gen 15-45W Mobile CPUs Starting Strix Point Marking The End of HS, H & U Series In a previous post, we reported how AMD was going to go all in on the "Ryzen AI" branding for its future APUs such as Strix Point and its derivatives. Now, Lenovo China's manager at Weibo seems to agree with this information and has said […]
AMD's Ryzen AI CPUs outshine Intel's Core Ultra chips in new AI benchmarks which showcase LLMs & GenAI workloads. AMD Shares New AI (LLM) Benchmarks With Ryzen AI CPUs Outperforming Intel's Core Ultra Chips While Running At Much Lower Power AMD was the first to enter the AI PC space with its first-gen Ryzen AI CPUs codenamed Phoenix which was introduced last year. The company has since launched its refreshed Ryzen AI lineup known as Hawk Point which offers enhanced "XDNA" NPUs, delivering a 60% boost in AI TOPS. It looks like AMD has put a lot of work into […]
Following NVIDIA's Chat with RTX launch, AMD is now offering users their very own localized & GPT-based LLM-powered AI chatbot which can run on Ryzen AI CPUs & Radeon 7000 GPUs. NVIDIA Chat With RTX Has A Competitor As AMD Unveils Its Own Localized LLM-Powered Chatbot That Can Run on Ryzen AI CPUs & Radeon 7000 GPUs Last month, NVIDIA launched its "Chat with RTX" AI Chatbot which is available across its RTX 40 & RTX 30 GPUs & is accelerated with the TensorRT-LLM feature set which offers faster GenAI results based on the data you make available to it […]
AMD's Ryzen 8000G APUs launch today and we have a new report which showcased how the memory scaling impacts the AI performance of these chips, such as the Ryzen 7 8700G, when running higher-clocked memory kits. AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU Scaling With MSI "Memory Try It" Showcased: Up To 15% NPU Boost With DDR5-7600 The latest test results come from hardware insider chi11eddog who has posted benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU in AI-specific workloads such as UL Procyon AI and GIMP stable diffusion. The reviews for the AMD Ryzen 8000G are already out and mostly focused […]
AMD has finally released its XDNA driver on Linux, targeting the APUs that feature "Ryzen AI" capabilities & expanding its support on the platform. AMD's New Driver Release at Linux Aims At Taking AI Performance To The Next Level, With Phoenix & Strix APUs Back at CES 2023, AMD announced its dedicated AI engine from Ryzen CPUs known as Ryzen AI. As a part of its XDNA AI Engine, the Ryzen AI co-processor is an on-die and dedicated chip that can be used to boost AI capabilities. AMD disclosed that the Ryzen AI Engine can drive up to 4 concurrent […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Today, AMD debuts its Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" APU family for the AI PC segment, featuring a new Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU, and XDNA 2 NPU cores. AMD Tackles Snapdragon X With Its Next-Gen Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" APUs, Combine Latest Zen 5, RDNA 3.5 & XDNA 2 IPs The AI PC ecosystem is evolving by the second as everyone tries to get a piece of the cake. AMD was essentially the first chipmaker to introduce an "AI PC" SOC with its Phoenix APU family back in 2023 and this was followed by the release of the much […]
AMD is ending its HS, H & U branding which helped distinguish between Ryzen Mobile CPUs & adopting the "Ryzen AI" naming convention across all next-gen SKUs starting Strix Point. AMD "Ryzen AI" Branding To Be Used Across All Next-Gen 15-45W Mobile CPUs Starting Strix Point Marking The End of HS, H & U Series In a previous post, we reported how AMD was going to go all in on the "Ryzen AI" branding for its future APUs such as Strix Point and its derivatives. Now, Lenovo China's manager at Weibo seems to agree with this information and has said […]
AMD's Ryzen AI CPUs outshine Intel's Core Ultra chips in new AI benchmarks which showcase LLMs & GenAI workloads. AMD Shares New AI (LLM) Benchmarks With Ryzen AI CPUs Outperforming Intel's Core Ultra Chips While Running At Much Lower Power AMD was the first to enter the AI PC space with its first-gen Ryzen AI CPUs codenamed Phoenix which was introduced last year. The company has since launched its refreshed Ryzen AI lineup known as Hawk Point which offers enhanced "XDNA" NPUs, delivering a 60% boost in AI TOPS. It looks like AMD has put a lot of work into […]
Following NVIDIA's Chat with RTX launch, AMD is now offering users their very own localized & GPT-based LLM-powered AI chatbot which can run on Ryzen AI CPUs & Radeon 7000 GPUs. NVIDIA Chat With RTX Has A Competitor As AMD Unveils Its Own Localized LLM-Powered Chatbot That Can Run on Ryzen AI CPUs & Radeon 7000 GPUs Last month, NVIDIA launched its "Chat with RTX" AI Chatbot which is available across its RTX 40 & RTX 30 GPUs & is accelerated with the TensorRT-LLM feature set which offers faster GenAI results based on the data you make available to it […]
AMD's Ryzen 8000G APUs launch today and we have a new report which showcased how the memory scaling impacts the AI performance of these chips, such as the Ryzen 7 8700G, when running higher-clocked memory kits. AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU Scaling With MSI "Memory Try It" Showcased: Up To 15% NPU Boost With DDR5-7600 The latest test results come from hardware insider chi11eddog who has posted benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU in AI-specific workloads such as UL Procyon AI and GIMP stable diffusion. The reviews for the AMD Ryzen 8000G are already out and mostly focused […]
AMD has finally released its XDNA driver on Linux, targeting the APUs that feature "Ryzen AI" capabilities & expanding its support on the platform. AMD's New Driver Release at Linux Aims At Taking AI Performance To The Next Level, With Phoenix & Strix APUs Back at CES 2023, AMD announced its dedicated AI engine from Ryzen CPUs known as Ryzen AI. As a part of its XDNA AI Engine, the Ryzen AI co-processor is an on-die and dedicated chip that can be used to boost AI capabilities. AMD disclosed that the Ryzen AI Engine can drive up to 4 concurrent […]