Chipmaker eyes light-speed AI arms race against Nvidia

AMD is turning up the heat on Nvidia by snapping up photonic circuit boffin Enosemi in a bid to muscle into the next frontier of chip tech.

AMD lets Hydons be Hygons

China has stirred the silicon pot again, and fused CPU design and server manufacturing into a single beast with ambitions far beyond web hosting.

Catching up with Nvidia DLSS

AMD is finally catching on that AI might actually be useful for something more than buzzwords. At Computex 2025, the chipmaker gave gamers a glimpse of FidelityFX Super Resolution Redstone, the next big leap for its upscaling tech that’s been trailing Nvidia’s DLSS for years.

Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors

Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks. 

Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p 

AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.

Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock

Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.

Coming in the second half of the year

At the Computex 2025 event, AMD announced its next evolution of the FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology, codenamed Redstone. Powered by machine learning (ML), FSR Redstone will bring Neural Radiance Caching, ML-accelerated Ray Regeneration, and ML-accelerated Frame Generation.

RDNA 4 Navi 48 GPU with 32GB of VRAM

In addition to the Radeon RX 9060 XT, AMD also announced its new Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card at the Computex 2025 show in Taipei.

Zen 5 monster aims straight at Chipzilla's Xeons

AMD took to Computex to unveil its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, and it's going for the throat. The show's star is the Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a hulking 96-core, 192-thread silicon slab aimed squarely at the workstation elite.

RDNA 4 Navi 44 silicon gets its moment just in time for Nvidia’s 5060 Ti 

AMD has punched Nvidia in the mid-range with the new Radeon RX 9060 XT, the third sprog in its RX 9000-series family.