AMD's Roy Taylor teases R9 Fury X2 system for developers
VR and DirectX 12 ready PCs stacked on shelves
AMD's Roy Taylor has been known to use its razor sharp marketing skills to tease the upcoming products and now he took to Twitter to show a shelf fully stacked with "console-sized" Falcon Northwest Tiki PCs with Radeon Technologies Group and AMD badge.
Intel processors will support Clang
Cannonlake reacts to Zen
Intel has announced that its Cannonlake processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project).
AMD teams up with Associated Press for VR journalism
AP to use AMD Radeon to render VR environments
AMD has announced that it has joined up with The Associated Press in order to create a new virtual reality experience channel and what is described as next-generation journalism.
AMD announces new Hitman bundle
Bundles it with Radeon R9 390 series and FX-series CPUs
AMD has just announced its new promotion which bundles the new Hitman game with its Radeon 390 series graphics cards and FX-series 6-core and 8-core CPUs.
Radeon Software Beta for Vulkan
The needs of the many still rest on DX12
AMD has released the first public beta driver which supports the Vulkan API – a royalty-free, open standard API spec which provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to graphics and compute on GPUs.
Khronos Group releases Vulkan 1.0 API
Full hard launch
The Khronos Group has now officially released the Vulkan 1.0 API, including all the specifications, conformance tests, SDKs and all other resources.
AMD teams up with IO Interactive for Hitman
To implement asynchronous compute engines
AMD has partnered up with IO Interactive and its upcoming Hitman game which will be the newest member of the AMD Gaming Evolved program and feature performance optimizations as well as unique DirectX 12 hardware features.
AMD details CPUs and APUs for VR
Quad core at least
AMD detailed eight of its CPUs and APUs can power a VR headset like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
AMD gives HP laptops a FreeSync
Envy 15z laptops now have it all
Maker of expensive printer ink HP will be releasing two new Envy 15z laptops that will feature AMD's FreeSync technology.
AMD raises notebook clock-speed by 1Ghz
No increase in power
AMD’s type Bristol Ridge SOC looks certain to speed up notebook chips by a 1 GHz without raising power consumption – if the OEMs had not stuffed it up for them.