Intel starts biting its nails

AMD has released the second generation of its processor chip for data centres and said that it had already landed Alphabet, Google and Twitter as customers.

Updated: Will High voltages on AMD's 7nm Ryzen 3000 plague Rome launch?

Today is the day when AMD plans to launch its 7nm datacenter CPU with up to 64 cores, codenamed Rome. As AMD gets ready for it’s most important launch ever today, there is a lot of anticipation and excitement for newfound competition with Intel. Still, well-informed sources are confirming that the Rome default voltages are exceeding TSMC’s 7nm maximum voltage.

ATI veteran comes back from Synaptics

AMD has announced that industry veteran, and an ex-ATI chap from the good ol' days, Rick Bergman, has rejoined the company as Executive Vice President of Computing and Graphics.

Sold 79 percent of all processor units in July

AMD beat Intel in the sale of processors in July -- at least in one German store.

ROG Strix and TUF series incoming

There will be plenty of custom AMD Radeon RX 5700 series cards to choose from from mid-August and Asus' versions, including the ROG Strix and TUF series have been spotted online.

ASRock's confirms these are coming in mid-August

A custom Radeon RX 5700 series graphics card design from XFX has been spotted online and ASRock has confirmed we will see those custom cards in mid-August, at least if all goes well.

 
With $1.53 billion revenue and 41 percent gross margin

AMD has officially announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2019 with a revenue of $1.53 billion, which lands in its earlier set targets.

 
Still speeds up fans in idle on RX 5700 series

AMD has released its latest Radeon Software 19.7.4 driver which should fix bugs in the GTA V game on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, but it does not revert back to lower idle fan speeds on the same graphics cards.

Head of Global Marketing

Godfrey sounded surprised when I mentioned that I still remember our first meetings when he was running the marketing for the legendary ATI AllinWonder cards, but at the time in the early 2000s, these were some of the most prominent cards ever created. They could do a TV-out.

Miscounts processor data

AMD says that Steam's Steam Hardware Survey is miscounting processor data which has a bug which favours Chipzilla gear.