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AMD CEO Lisa Su proposed bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, set plan in motion before DDR5 shortages
AMD Director Travis Kirsch confirmed the rationale for relaunching the first X3D chip and explained why the company no longer offers many Ryzen 3 SKUs.
AMD brings official Ryzen overclocking to Linux with AOD driver support
New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games
Nvidia is rolling out a new GPU driver today (621.01) that enables Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology to speed up game launches. The technology also removes mid-game "just-in-time" shader compilation, reducing stuttering and CPU spikes.
Modal taps Nvidia Vera CPUs after firm's internal tests show 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips
Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755 in new agentic AI CPU tests
Arm said its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice the performance per rack of AMD's EPYC 9755 in a set of agentic AI CPU tests.
Save $500 on this 1440p gaming PC with an RTX 5070, now under $1,800
This Newegg deal on an ABS Flux II Aqua gaming PC gives you a machine ready for 1440p and 4K gameplay for $1,799.99. This pre-built comes with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
The Sony Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting a promised update to Android 17
When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced over two years ago with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised three major OS updates which would have included this year's Android 17 release.
Sipeed reveals Chinese-made DGX Spark and Ryzen AI Halo rival, expected to cost $3,999
Sipeed’s MaixStation pairs Axera’s AX8860P with 128GB of LPDDR5X at 273 GB/s to take on Nvidia’s DGX Spark and AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo.
Apple TV 4K Gains Onboard Mics and Better Processor, but Whoa That Price!
Apple has introduced the Apple TV 4K (fourth generation), a new streaming box that adds onboard microphones and a faster processor.
AMD debuts Helion reference design for agentic AI servers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 ‘Venice’ cores — rack design ships next year in CPU-only and all-in-one configurations
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores.
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