Intel circles the wagons after TSMC lawsuit over exec hire
Published in News


Insists it has done nothing wrong as talent wars flare up

Troubled Chipzilla is digging in after TSMC accused one of its newly hired vice presidents of breaching a nondisclosure agreement.

Infineon cosies up to AMD for a slice of the edge AI action
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HYPERRAM is the new cheap and cheerful memory fix

Infineon decided to wave a flag today by saying AMD has put its 64 Mb HYPERRAM memory and matching controller IP through their paces for the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA SCU35 Evaluation Kit.

AMD confirms price hikes
Published in Graphics


Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

AMD sets a date for elusive FSR Redstone
Published in Graphics


The long-teased graphics tech is meant to land on 10 December

The next-gen FidelityFX update FSR Redstone will start rolling out from 10 December.

Tech company shares hammered
Published in AI


Wall Street still fears a bubble

The cocaine-nose jobs of Wall Street are not buying Nvidia's stellar results, and still fear that all that investment in AI is a bubble.

AMD Radeon RX 9060XT 16GB drops down to $340
Published in Graphics


Amazon Black Friday deal

Amazon has pushed down the price for AMD's Radeon RX 9060XT 16GB from the usual $399.99, down to $339.98.

AMD details its new Instinct MI430X data-center accelerator
Published in Graphics


Coming with 432GB of HBM4 memory for 19.6TB/s of bandwidth

AMD has rather silently introduced and detailed the new Instinct MI430X, a data-center accelerator aimed at large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC). The new AMD Instinct MI430X will power several AI and HPC systems, including Discovery, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the recently announced Exascale-class system in Europe, Alice Recoque.

RAM crunch threatens to snuff out budget GPUs
Published in Graphics


Rising costs shove AMD and Nvidia towards culling their cheap cards

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD and Nvidia are considering winding down production of their budget-oriented GPUs because the bill of materials has ballooned as GDDR prices shoot into the stratosphere.

Intel axes its next mainstream Xeon platform
Published in Network


Diamond Rapids loses its low-end twin as the server world shifts to fatter memory pipes.

Troubled Chipzilla has binned the eight-channel Diamond Rapids design that was supposed to replace today’s Granite Rapids-SP Xeon 6700P and 6500P chips.

Valve announces new Steam Machine
Published in Gaming


With semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU

Valve has finally announced its new Steam Hardware, including the Steam Machine, a cool-looking box-like mini PC, based on AMD's semi-custom Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU, that will sit under your TV.