In the months leading up to the Zen launch, AMD has vague about the launch date and pricing. All we know officially is that Zen will launch sometime in Q1 2017 and at a ...
November 18, 2016 at 9:40 am by Samuel Wan
In a little over two months, AMD will likely have launched their new Zen series of CPUs. While we know some details about the type of lineup is planning, there have been few ...
November 17, 2016 at 1:45 am by Samuel Wan
As befitting a major release like Zen, AMD looks to be rearranging much of how their CPU lineup will look like. Dubbed Summit Ridge, what we know so far is that the top end ...
November 5, 2016 at 10:20 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the year, we got the first leak about Raven Ridge. Set to be a new series of AMD APUs, the lineup was rumoured to combine the new Zen CPU cores with Polaris based ...
October 30, 2016 at 9:48 am by Samuel Wan
When the first Zen Engineering Samples leaked out, many were surprised at the relatively low clock speeds. At stock, the 8 core 16 thread chip managed only 2.8 GHz stock and ...
October 24, 2016 at 10:45 am by Samuel Wan
One of the things that never gets old with the tech industry is the crazy and wacky code names they come up with. Honestly, sometimes I have no idea how they come up with ...
October 2, 2016 at 10:42 am by Samuel Wan
When AMD unveiled Bristol Ridge earlier in the month, they also released some details for their new AM4 platform. Used for Bristol Ridge and Zen, the new socket utilizes a ...
September 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture requires the company’s new AM4 socket to access a number of benefits including M.2 connectivity, PCI-E gen 3, DDR4 memory and much ...
September 27, 2016 at 1:16 pm by John Williamson
Earlier in the year, we first got rumours about a massive AMD CPU. Codenamed Starship, the rumoured chip would feature up to 48 cores on the 7nm FinFET process with the latest ...
September 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Samuel Wan
With Bristol Ridge headed towards us after the launch earlier in the month, motherboards are starting to pop up. Surprisingly, it’s not one of the mainstream motherboard ...
September 22, 2016 at 9:20 am by Samuel Wan
After a long wait, AMD is making the final preparations for its Zen architecture launch which offers a staggering 40% IPC improvement over Excavator. The introduction of Zen ...
September 18, 2016 at 12:08 am by John Williamson
When the first reports of Zen came out from AMD, the suggestion was that they would arrive in late 2016. Some rumours even pointed to October as the likely release. however, ...
September 12, 2016 at 9:11 am by Samuel Wan
One of the most anticipated releases for the past while have been AMD’s new CPU architecture. Dubbed Zen, the new design is set to revitalize the companies flagging ...
August 19, 2016 at 9:40 am by Samuel Wan
After what has seemed like years out in the wilderness, AMD is finally getting back to the CPU game with force. Teased multiple times over the past weeks, the new Zen CPU ...
August 11, 2016 at 8:40 am by Samuel Wan
Over the past couple of weeks, AMD has been showing off Zen to the word. Using the new x86 architecture, the new design is reportedly set to offer 40%+ IPC compared to current ...
August 10, 2016 at 9:29 am by Samuel Wan
