Silicon looks great and is on track to launch later this year
During its Q1 2024 financial report, AMD confirmed the status of its future products, including the Zen 5 CPU architecture, namely EPYC Turing CPUs.
Launching on May 14 at $299.99
Amazon has briefly jumped the gun on AMD's Ryzen 7 8700F APU, which should launch alongside the Ryzen 5 8400F on May 14th, listing it for pre-order at $299.99.
It was broken before we got there
Intel has found itself grappling with stability concerns over its 13th and 14th Generation Raptor Lake processors and is claiming that the kerfuffle stems from motherboard makers getting a bit too creative with the CPUs' settings - tweaking voltage curves, going wild with automatic overclocking, and tossing power limits out the window.
Motherboard makers back new AMD chips
ASRock and Biostar last to sign up
All the principal motherboard manuacturers have now introduced support for AMD's forthcoming desktop CPUs with their latest BIOS updates, and another vendor has specifically indicated that these chips will be the Ryzen 9000 series.
Boffins cross DRAM with NAND
Data survives once the power is switched off
Boffins from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a prototype that marries the rapidity of Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) with the non-volatility of NAND flash memory, potentially heralding a new era in data storage technology.