With Zen launching sometime next year, AMD is casting their eyes towards its successors, Zen+ and beyond. While details on either have been scarce, AMD is hoping it that the ...
December 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
While Zen may still be a long way off, AMD isn’t just sitting around without new CPUs to launch. Stealthily launched, AMD is releasing a new FX-6330 chip to slot into ...
December 15, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Having moved from PowerPC to Intel’s x86 a little under a decade ago, it looks like Apple may be considering a CPU switch again. This time around, the rumours point o a ...
October 21, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Despite all the bad news from AMD thus far, it looks like they’ll be getting a break for next year. According to a rumour, Intel is delaying their Cannonlake CPUs ...
October 21, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Despite pretty dismal Q3 2015 results, AMD looks set for a good late 2016 and 2017. AMD has reportedly completed their next generation Zen and K12 designs and have taped ...
October 19, 2015 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
Ever since ARM took over the mobile world, we’ve been hearing about how the RISC architecture was trying to expand into other higher performance areas. While ARM first ...
October 11, 2015 at 3:00 pm by Samuel Wan
All hopes at AMD are pinned on their new Zen CPU architecture performing well against Intel’s currently superior lineup. While we have seen some leaked block diagrams ...
October 5, 2015 at 10:45 am by Samuel Wan
Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held true for the longest time, with power users who ...
October 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm by Samuel Wan
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:26 am by Samuel Wan
While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such an occurrence. According to market data, Intel withheld processor ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:04 am by Samuel Wan
AMD took a blow this past week after another major departure. While some have taken Jim Keller’s departure to be negative news, we aren’t so sure. Internally ...
September 21, 2015 at 9:29 am by Samuel Wan
One of the most renowned members of AMD, Jim Keller is leaving the firm once again. The former Chief Architect of Microprocessor Cores is leaving today to pursue other ...
September 19, 2015 at 11:30 am by Samuel Wan
Ever since AMD launched the much maligned Bulldozer CPUs, fans have been waiting for chips that would be competitive performance wise with Intel. Next year, however, that is ...
September 11, 2015 at 9:30 am by Samuel Wan
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 ...
August 19, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have ...
August 14, 2015 at 10:30 am by Samuel Wan
