AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 5 3600XT listed by Amazon Italy
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Bit pricey

Over the weekend two 'Matisse Refresh' processors were found listed for pre-order on Amazon Italy.

Jim Keller did his Intel job, moves out
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Four leaders continue his work

A lot of people were surprised to learn that Jim Keller decided to leave Intel for personal reasons. We were less surprised than the rest of his colleagues, just based on Jim’s track record as we believe that Keller went and did what he was hired to do, and left. 

System76 releases Ryzen based laptop
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Friday, 12 June 2020 12:08

System76 releases Ryzen based laptop


First time for Linux maker

Linux computer maker/seller System76 is offering its first AMD-powered laptop.

Microsoft lightweight Windows 10 Surface Ryzen based
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Should be out this year

Microsoft’s Surface team are working with AMD for the lightweight Windows 10 Surface to put the latest Ryzen 5s under the bonnet.

AMD Ryzen 5 4400G Renoir APU spotted in 3DMark database
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6-core/12-thread APU with Radeon Graphics

It appears that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 4000G lineup will include a lot more SKUs than was previously leaked as a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 4400G has been spotted in 3DMark database.

Amazon goes EPYC
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Monday, 08 June 2020 12:52

Amazon goes EPYC


AMD on its cloud

AMD announced its second generation EPYC  processor is powering Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a and are switched on in the AWS US East, AWS US West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions.

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm
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Friday, 05 June 2020 10:24

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm


Zen 4 to go to the next node

Digitimes, VideoCardz, and RetiredEngineer (twitter) started an intriguing rumor that Ryzen 4000 might end up at 5nm+. Asking around at a reliable place, we have to disappoint some of you as this won't be the case. The Ryzen 4000 series based on Zen 3 core is still at 7nm.

AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles
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Thursday, 04 June 2020 16:20

AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles


Will be a "halo product"

AMD has confirmed that its upcoming Navi 2, also known as Big Navi, will both be AMD's first RNDA 2 based product as well as launch before consoles, suggesting a pre-Holiday release.

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel
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Thursday, 04 June 2020 12:01

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel


Turns out the Russian's aren't coming yet

Rostec, which is a Russian giant conglomerate has a chip project called Elbrus, an indigenous CPU family that has its roots in the 1970s and according to Tech Radar , a new model has surfaced: the Elbrus 8CB.

AMD  offers virtual tour of Hawk supercomputer
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Showing off

AMD has launched a never seen before 360 virtual tour of the flagship supercomputer ‘Hawk’ at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany.