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
Documents have surfaced, via Benchlife.info, that suggest AMD is starting its transition from Excavator architecture to Zen architecture, with the company’s new Socket AM4 ...
December 10, 2015 at 4:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Before anyone gets too excited about this news, so far this is only a rumour that originates from one source, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t dream, hope and ...
December 3, 2015 at 6:53 pm by Bohs Hansen
AMD’s next-gen x86 CPU core architecture, codenamed Zen, has, according to rumour, been fully tested and has “met all expectation [sic]” with no “significant ...
November 2, 2015 at 3:56 pm by Ashley Allen
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 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
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
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
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
In a paper to the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer), AMD has revealed the existence of their Exascale Heterogeneous Processor or EHP. Pretty much a ...
August 2, 2015 at 9:54 am by Samuel Wan
While much of the focus from yesterday’s financial call was the poor state of finances, another small tidbit about future plans was mentioned. CEO Lisa Su revealed that ...
July 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
In an ominous sign for the future, Intel has officially confirmed the delay of their 10nm process, used for Cannon Lake, till the second half of 2017. In its stead, the ...
July 16, 2015 at 10:26 pm by Samuel Wan
