December / CES showcase possible

AMD has never really said that it will ship the Zen this year, the company was always cautious about giving  the exact date of the launch. We still believe that the desktop version of Zen will get shown late this year, December or at CES, in the first days of next year. Bench-life thinks that the actual shipping will happen in February. 

Deluxe with early access for the price of standard

AMD is moving from the long tradition of bundling the Battlefield games but with the purchase of  Radeon RX480 cards or Radeon RX480 based PCs it will get you the deluxe version of the game for the price of the standard version.

Wants a graphics core

AMD and Nvidia are apparently in a scrap to provide Samsung with a graphics core for its custom CPU.

Figures from Mercury and JPR

AMD has been on the blower to point out that figures from Mercury and Jon Peddie Research show that it has been growing market share for the fourth consecutive quarter.

Optimizations for DX12 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1 drivers which bring optimizations for the newly released DirectX 12 patch for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided as well as a new DOTA 2 Crossfire profile and few minor fixes.

Wall Street getting interested again

Wall Street’s key investment service Moody’s is suddenly getting more optimistic about AMD and boosted its ratings.

It’s the takeover tango - one more time

I can’t remember how many times in the last 20 years that I’ve written up rumors that AMD is ripe for a takeover but now it seems it’s time to do it one more time.

It’s just resting

AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster, has told the world+dog that despite claims to the contrary Moore’s Law is not dead, it is getting better, and be going Vroom any day now.

Radeon RX 470 goes to notebooks

Alienware has just unveiled its updated notebook lineup and it seems that Tobii eye-tracking software and Nvidia Pascal GPUs aren't the only update as AMD has squeezed in with its Radeon RX 470 graphics card as well.

Optimizations for Battlefield 1 Open Beta and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.3 drivers which should have all the optimizations for recently released Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and the EA/DICE Battlefield 1 Open Beta phase.