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
Last month, reports came out that AMD has scored a major Apple design win. According to the rumours, AMD’s new Polaris GPUs had been chosen to power the next ...
September 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD has officially launched their new 7th generation APUs previously codenamed Bristol Ridge for OEMs and provided an insight into the shipping date of systems supporting the ...
September 5, 2016 at 9:19 pm by John Williamson
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
With Computex wrapped up now, we have some time to reflect on what we saw at this year’s event. As with every year, we saw a showcase of all the new tech that’s ...
June 7, 2016 at 10:20 am by Samuel Wan
After a pre-release mini launch earlier in the year, we are finally getting AMD’s 7th generation APUs. Codenamed Bristol Ridge, the new chip lineup bridges the gap ...
June 2, 2016 at 10:20 am by Samuel Wan
Ever since the launch of the APU back in 2011, both AMD and Intel have continued down this path. While CPU performance hasn’t grown much, the iGPU side of the chips ...
May 23, 2016 at 7:40 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the month, Nvidia took the first show in the latest round of the GPU wars. Launching the GTX 1080, the green team started off the new generation with their Pascal ...
May 20, 2016 at 8:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Before we get to the lovely Zen architecture that is supposed to save AMD, there is still one more iteration of the Construction cores. Last month, AMD did a ...
May 19, 2016 at 2:20 pm by Samuel Wan
After releasing pretty dismal results for Q1 2016, there are a few bright points for AMD. Two of them were the new x86 licencing deal to build Chinese servers and the ...
April 25, 2016 at 9:50 am by Samuel Wan
AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture, codenamed Zen, is going to offer a 40 percent IPC improvement compared to Excavator and could dawn in a new era of competitiveness. ...
April 22, 2016 at 2:00 pm by John Williamson
After launching Excavator with Carrizo last year, we’re getting the next iteration based on the same architecture. Dubbed Bristol Ridge, the new lineup features an ...
April 6, 2016 at 11:20 am by Samuel Wan
One of the first applications that came to mind with HBM was pairing it up with an AMD APU. Proven to work as VRAM with the Fiji GPUs last year, HBM also has possible ...
March 21, 2016 at 10:15 am by Samuel Wan
After Samsung and Nvidia had their recent legal spat, more light has been shed on the world of GPU patents and licensing. While Intel holds their own wealth of patents, no ...
March 17, 2016 at 10:37 am by Samuel Wan
AMD has been getting ever more cyclical with their releases after their latest organizational shuffle. Last month, we saw the launch of the A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845 APU ...
March 2, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Samuel Wan
