Acceptable in the rest of the world

AMD's $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, which is a few months after AMD and Xilinx's originally proposed closing of the deal before the end of 2021.

But main focus is on Zen 3 with 3D V-Cache

AMD will have a big presentation at the CES 2022 show and while it is known that we will hear about the new notebook chips, new Threadripper, as well as the new Zen 3 desktop chips with 3D V-Cache, it appears that AMD will also talk about the next generation Zen 4 chips as well.

Buying $1.6 billion worth of chips from old mate

AMD will acquire about $2.1 billion of silicon wafers from GlobalFoundries from 2022 through 2025 in an amended agreement.

Intel could be onto something

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that AMD could be planning on bringing in hybrid processors – chips that mix different types of cores.

Specs acquired

Lenovo accidentally listed some specifications and confirming the name of AMD’s upcoming entry-level RX 6500 XT graphics card.

Well, everyone else is

It appears that AMD has given up trying to be nice during the chip shortage and jacked up the prices of its Radeon 6000 PCBs

Based on Navi 24 GPU

AMD is preparing to unleash a few new graphics cards in the Radeon RX 6000 series, the RX 6500 XT and the RX 6400. Both should be based on the smallest RNDA2 Navi 24 GPU and launch in Q1 2022.

128 cores (256 threads) of processing power to play with

IBM Cloud has released Bare Metal Servers using the newly released third-generation AMD EPYC processors.

AMD's new 29b transistor 6nm CDNA 2 GPU

In addition to the CPU announcements, a big part of AMD's Accelerated Data Center keynote was focused on the new AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators. Based on the new CDNA 2 GPU architecture, this dual-GPU accelerator claims the world's first exascale-class GPU.

804MB of total cache per socket

AMD has unveiled its 3rd gen AMD EPYC Milan-X CPU, a beast with 3D V-Cache, up to 64 Zen 3 cores, and an 804MB of total cache per socket, promising up to 50 percent average uplift across targeted workloads.