AMD furious at Chinese allegations
Wall Street Journal in the doghouse
The Wall Street Journal is in the doghouse with AMD after releasing an anti-Chinese story with the chipmaker’s name on it.
Intel admits AMD is a danger again
Leaked memo warns of AMD formidability
Intel is getting rather concerned at AMD's Zen 2 advancements and an internal memo that just leaked out to public venues indicates that AMD is starting to give Chipzilla a good kicking in its reptilian diodes.
AMD fixes borked SEV encryption
Epyc fail
AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix its Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV) encryption.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 review leaked
Without the correct motherboard
Spanish tech site El Chapuzas Informatico has published an exclusive AMD Ryzen 5 3600 review with benchmark comparisons spanning apps such as: Cinebench, wPrime, and Aida64 (memory); plus gaming benchmarks from the 3DMark family, Unigine Heaven 4, and Superposition; plus games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Far Cry 5 and Total War Warhammer 2.
Via might save Huawei's bacon
Chinese firm caught between ROC and hard place
While US semiconductor firms Intel and AMD and others are effectively banned from shipping their technology to Chinese giant Huawei, another firm could fill the X86 processor hole in its motherboards.
AMD releases Radeon Software 19.6.2 graphics driver
Expands Vulkan API support
AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 graphics driver which fixes some issues and adds further Vulkan API support with new extensions.
Custom Radeon RX 5700 cards come in mid-August
If all goes well
According to our sources, custom Radeon RX 5700 won't be available before mid-August.
Rest of AMD RX 5700 specifications revealed
Might explain why non-XT is priced higher than expected
AMD has released full specifications of its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 series, which reveal a few more details regarding the actual RDNA architecture behind first 7nm Navi GPUs as well as explains why the RX 5700 (non-XT) is priced a tad bit higher than expected.
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X breaks benchmarking records
And it is not out yet
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X isn't out yet but it appears to be breaking benchmarking records.
Intel hires chief architect of Xbox One
Scorpio, and Scarlett SoCs
Our knowledgeable sources have whispered that Intel has hired John Sell, a chap who was the chief architect of Xbox One, Scorpio, and Scarlett SoCs. John joined as an Intel Fellow to work on security.