AMD hands product marketing reins to Sasa Marinkovic
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Another veteran of the ATI/AMD force

You have already read here that ATI/AMD's veteran Chris Hook left AMD after 17 years, and we now know that Sasa Marinkovic, another ATI/AMD veteran will be taking over his reins as director of product marketing.

Chris Hook leaves AMD
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After 17 years

One of the most prominent names in AMD’s RTG, Chris Hook, has left AMD. He walked away after seventeen years of ATI and AMD combined with his last job as Sr. Director, Global Product Marketing at AMD.

AMD plugs Meltdown and Spectre’s security holes
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Still jolly tricky

AMD has released patches for Meltdown and Spectre security holes alongside Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates.

Radeon RX 500X series spotted on AMD's site
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Possible refresh or just OEM models

AMD is apparently gearing up for its latest refresh as Radeon RX 500X series product pages have been spotted on its own site.

AMD lost a key salesman to Lenovo
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Matthew Zielinski, President and SVP

This happened over a month ago but I noticed recently that the former Corporate VP and President of Global sales MNC at AMD departed to do the same for job for Lenovo. This might be the biggest sales loss since John Byrne went to become the President of Sales at Dell.

AMD Ryzen Mobile won't score flagship design win
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That all stays with Intel

There is an unfortunate story behind Ryzen Mobile. The chip has launched and in many cases  it competes well against Intel’s solution. Still, OEMs aren't flocking in their droves to  announcw significant design wins. This won't change anytime soon.

AMD's open-source Radeon Rays integrated into Unity engine
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Will work with Unity's GPU Progressive Lightmapper

According to an announcement over at Unity, AMD's Radeon Rays will be integrated with Unity's GPU Progressive Lightmapper, and, surprise, it is open source, has cross-platform support, and it's free.

ASRock unveils its Phantom Gaming graphics card lineup
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With the entire Radeon RX 500 series lineup

We have already seen teasers for ASRock's venture into the graphics card market and the company has now officially announced its first Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards that will be a part of its Phantom Gaming lineup.

AMD releases Radeon Software 18.3.4 driver
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One to have for Far Cry 5

AMD has released its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.4 driver which brings day-one support for the Far Cry 5 game as well as fixing some earlier problems.

AMD and Nvidia to suffer from increased competition
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Susquehanna Financial warns about the rise of Bitmain's bitmining chips

Susquehanna Financial has warned that AMD and Nvidia are about to lose a big chunk of the cash that they have been making from crypto-miners.