Brings a couple of game improvements

AMD has released a new WHQL-certified update for its Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers, which includes a couple of game fixes and improvements, the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.12 WHQL.

Success is thumbs up for chipmaker

Star Wars is cleaning up the pre-Christmas theatre but it appears that behind the scenes the dark side is cheering.

AMD's performance on Unreal Engine 4 not up to snuff

Epic Games said it is investigating issue with Unreal Engine 4 and AMD CPUs.

Limited to China market

While Radeon R9 390 4GB was spotted on sale in China, same versions of the Radeon R9 390 graphics card will not bee seen in Europe or the US.

Successor to the R9 Fury X Tri-X with new custom PCB

According to a fresh report, Sapphire is working on a new Radeon R9 Fury graphics card with a completely custom design, featuring new custom PCB and a triple-fan cooler, the Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro.

Goes well with chips

AMD and is now RTG (Radeon Technologies Group) are involved in a major push to open source GPU resources.

But not until 2020

Enthusiasts, or those with the cash for a Radeon Fury X and Geforce GTX 980 TI or Titan, expect to see a boom of VR devices such as HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift. But according to AMD's CFO the VR business will start making some serious money only in 2020. 

32nm Piledriver architecture and 3.6/4.2GHz clocks

AMD has silently launched its new FX-6330 Black Edition six-core CPU which is currently available only in the APAC region.

At least in China

Chinese retailers appear to be selling AMD Radeon R9 390 and R9 390X with 4GB of memory.

Needs to be faster

Nokia and ARM want to spruce up the TCP/IP stack to make it better suited to networks that need to operate at high speed and/or low latency.