AMD takes another stab at Intel
Offers to exchange sweepstake Core i7-8086K for Threadripper 1950X
AMD is having a blast in taking stabs at Intel these days and in its latest one, it goes for the recently announces Intel sweepstake, offering to exchange the prized Core i7-8086K limited edition CPU for a brand new Threadripper 1950X CPU.
AMD announces partnership with three developers at E3 2018
The Division 2, Strange Brigade, and Resident Evil 2 Remake
Ubisoft, Rebellion and Capcom have joined forces with AMD. All these developers have some nice upcoming games.
Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2
High bandwidth is the key
There is an interesting story that's very little known about the public cooperation that has happened between AMD and Xilinx about HBM memory.
AMD releases Radeon Software 18.6.1 driver
One to have for Warhammer: Vermintide II
AMD has released its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.6.1 driver update which provides support for Warhammer: Vermintide II game as well as fixes some issues seen with previous driver releases.
Big Navi 20 to arrive 2020 or later
Vega 64 real replacement
As Fudzilla reported a few times, Navi 10, the small Navi, manufactured on 7nm, is set to arrive at some point in 2019. There will be a big gaming GPU called Navi 20, but this one won’t come until 2020.
AMD has new cooler for 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper
Wraith Ripper developed with Cooler Master
While demonstrating the 24-core and 32-core 2nd generation Threadripper CPUs at the Computex 2018 show, AMD was keen to note that these were air cooled, by non other than a brand new Wraith Ripper CPU cooler developed by AMD in cooperation with Cooler Master.
AMD unveils Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano at Computex 2018
Only Powercolor for now
During its Computex 2018 press conference, AMD took the opportunity to talk about the upcoming Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano graphics card, one that Powercolor announced a while back.
AMD shows Vega 7nm 32GB HBM2
RayTrace render demo
None other than Lisa Su, the fearless leader of AMD, has announced the Vega 7nm and just as Fudzilla reported a few months back this is a Radeon instinct only and it won’t make it to a gaming part. David Wang the SVP Engineering Radeon Technologies Group went into a few more details.
After Navi 7nm comes Next gen 7nm+
2020 at the earliest
What Taiwan native David Wang - VP of AMD's Radeon Technologies Group - wanted to share the world at Computex is that Vega 14nm was a new architecture while Vega 7nm is a die shrink. Just think of it like Intel’s tick–tock cycle that got broken at 14nm a few years back.
AMD ups the CPU wars, raining on Intel's 28-core parade with something better
12nm Zen+ cores and on track for launch in Q3 2018
As expected, AMD has announced its upcoming 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper HEDT CPUs at the Computex 2018 press conference, putting more pressure on Intel and its earlier announced, and unnamed, 28-core HEDT CPU.
