AMD's Lisa Su world's highest-paid CEO
Makes $58.5 million a year
AMD's Lisa Su has become the world's highest-paid CEO, according to a recent survey from the Associated Press on CEO compensation.
Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
Give me Steam
Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.
AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
No great shakes after all
Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.
AMD's new Ryzen 9 3900XT and Ryzen 7 3800XT spotted in 3DMark
With significant clock increase
Both the revised Zen 2 Ryzen 9 3900XT and the Ryzen 7 3800XT have been spotted in the 3DMark database, confirming earlier rumors that we could see a significant boost in clocks for these new CPUs.
Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD
First time in 15 years
IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds took time out from his latest version of the Linux kernel to announce he had abandoned Intel after 15 years.
Next-gen consumer GPUs rumored to launch in September
From both Nvidia and AMD
According to a report from Digitimes, next-gen consumer graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD could launch in September.
AMD could be working on desktop Ryzen 3000 refresh SKUs
The Ryzen 7 3850X and 3750X
According to the latest rumor, AMD could be working on two new refresh SKUs in its Ryzen 3000 desktop lineup, the Ryzen 7 3850X and the Ryzen 7 3700X.
Ryzen 4000 desktop was planned for Computex 2020
Now obviously later Vermeer
Ryzen 3 or what AMD might end up calling the Ryzen 4000 desktop series was supposed to launch at Computex 2020. Since Computex is postponed from late May to late September, it is unlikely that AMD will wait until then to reveal a new CPU.
AMD changes its mind on BIOSes limits
We have listened to concerns
AMD is reversing its decision to limit the BIOSes on the 400-series chipsets.
Nvidia DGX A100 AI System runs on AMD EPYC Rome CPU
Two AMD EPYC 7742 64-core/128-thread CPUs
At its digital GPU Technology Conference 2020 which kicked off today, Nvidia officially announced the new Amper architecture based GA100 GPU, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU which will be a part of the DGX A100 AI System, and it appears that that same system will be powered by none other than two AMD EPYC CPUs.