The Motley Fool writes:
AMD held just under 18% of the CPU market at the end of 2016 before Ryzen arrived. The latest third-party estimates suggest that the chipmaker now controls close to 37% of the market. Other reliable estimates from the likes of video gaming platform Steam also suggest that AMD has been consistently chipping away at Intel’s CPU dominance. And…
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AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU
Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, has today announced the company’s next generation mainstream Ryzen processor. From a report: The new family, known as the Ryzen 5000 series, includes four parts and supports up to sixteen cores. The key element of the new product is the core design, with AMD’s latest Zen 3 microarchitecture, promising a 19% raw increase in…
Security Researchers Detail New ‘BlindSide’ Speculative Execution Attack
“Security researchers from Amsterdam have publicly detailed ‘BlindSide’ as a new speculative execution attack vector for both Intel and AMD processors,” reports Phoronix:
BlindSide is self-described as being able to “mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation. This works even in face of…
Citizen scientists spot closest young brown dwarf disk yet
Brown dwarfs are the middle child of astronomy, too big to be a planet yet not big enough to be a star. Like their stellar siblings, these objects form from the gravitational collapse of gas and dust. But rather than condensing into a star’s fiery hot nuclear core, brown dwarfs find a more zen-like equilibrium, somehow reaching a stable, milder state…
AMD To Support Zen 3 and Ryzen 4000 CPUs On B450 and X470 Motherboards
New submitter FallOutBoyTonto shares a reprot from AnandTech: AMD today is reversing its decision to limit the BIOSes on the 400-series chipsets. To cut a long story short, the TL;DR mantra from AMD is: “We’ve heard our audience, and we understand the concerns. We are going to work out a way to support Zen 3 on our 400-series chipsets between now…
AMD Launches Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 Low Cost, Low Power Quad-Core CPUs
MojoKid writes: AMD unveiled two new Ryzen 3 processors recently, designed to drive its Zen 2 CPU microarchitecture into more affordable price points. The new Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X are entry-level 3rd gen Ryzen CPUs that will run in any socket AM4 motherboard, with price points of only $99 (Ryzen 3 3100) and $120 (Ryzen 3 3300X). They…
AMD Launches 3 Second-Gen Epyc Processors With 50% Lower Cost of Ownership
Advanced Micro Devices said it is adding three new 2nd-Gen AMD Epyc server processors that can deliver up to 50% lower cost of ownership than rival Intel Xeon processors. From a report: The chips are part of AMD’s attempt to grab technology leadership away from Intel, which has long dominated the server chip market. AMD has had an advantage lately with…
The PlayStation 5 vs. the Xbox Series X: Which Is More Powerful?
Now that Microsoft and Sony have published the technical specifications of their respective next-gen gaming consoles, we can compare them head-to-head to see which one has the edge. While Sony appears to lag behind Microsoft when it comes to specs, the PS5’s speedy custom SSD may be its secret weapon. Engadget reports: Sony’s lead PlayStation architect, Mark Cerny, finally gave us…
AMD Launches Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile CPUs With Major Performance Lift Claims
MojoKid writes: Though Ryzen 4000 Series laptop processors aren’t available just yet, some of AMD’s partners are going to begin taking pre-orders for notebooks soon. As such, AMD is lifting the veil on additional details and the architectural enhancements that make Ryzen 4000 Series AMD’s strongest mobile processor line-up to date. AMD Ryzen 4000 series CPUs are based on the Zen…
AMD Discloses RDNA 2 Graphics, CDNA Data Center GPUs, Next-Gen Zen
“At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD disclosed additional details regarding its next generation CPU and GPU architectures,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid:
– While the company isn’t ready to disclose concrete details yet, AMD is promising that Navi 2X will arrive this year and deliver “enthusiast-class” performance, excellent power efficiency, and “top-of-stack” GPUs with “uncompromising 4K gaming”. – While AMD has RDNA for…