AMD announces its Q2 2018 financial results
Reports revenue of US $1.76 billion, up by 53 percent Y/Y
AMD has announced its financial report for the second quarter or 2018, and it appears that the company did well, reporting revenues of $1.76 billion, up by 53 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
AMD Picasso APU GPU spotted in benchmark database
Raven Ridge successor shaping up
AMD's Raven Ridge APU successor revealed as the Picasso in AMD's recent slides has now been spotted online in a benchmark database.
AMD Zen 2 rumored to offer 10-15 percent IPC uplift
Might even bring higher core count to AM4
According to recent rumors, AMD's Zen 2 architecture will bring impressive IPC performance boost and could even bring a higher core count, all thanks to the new 7nm manufacturing process.
World of Warcraft gets DirectX 12 support
Kills support for DirectX 9
Blizzard has recently released its latest Battle for Azeroth pre-patch for World of Warcraft, which has both finally added support for DirectX 12 as well as killed support for DirectX 9.
AMD releases Radeon Software 18.7.1 driver
Performance improvements in Earthfall game
AMD has released its latest game-ready Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.7.1 driver which brings performance improvements in the new Earthfall game as well as fixes some issues.
AMD 2nd gen Threadripper could launch in mid-August
The 32-core/64-thread beast incoming
According to the latest reports, AMD could be launching its 2nd Generation Threadripper SKUs on August 13th and it could cost a pretty penny.
New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 flaws found
Haunting which cannot be exorcised
Two security boffins have found details about the new Spectre-class vulnerabilities, – Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2.
Fuzedrive now works on both Intel and AMD platforms
Does what Optane should have done in the first place
Enmotus, the company which was behind AMD StoreMi that shipped with X470 chipset motherboards, has now released a new version of its own FuzeDrive Software, which, to much surprise, works both with AMD and Intel chipsets, and pretty much does what Intel Optane should have done in the first place.
AMD snatches a VP from Intel as well
Vice President of Intel's Core and Visual Computing Group
While Intel managed to grab some key graphics guys from AMD, it appears that AMD can play that same game as Intel's VP Core and Visual Computing Group, Martin Ashton, has moved to AMD.
More Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X details appear
Both are good overclockers
While we have already seen some details, a fresh leak regarding AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X SKUs has shown up online, revealing a lot more details as well as an impressive overclocking potential.