With their new Zen architecture, AMD is making a comeback to the performance market. Due to competitive IPC at last, the company is free to push the performance envelope of ...
November 5, 2017 at 9:27 am by Samuel Wan
Last week, AMD revealed their new process node plans. Instead of going to 14nm+, the Sunnyvale based firm will go for 12nm instead. This marks a trend away from the time where ...
September 29, 2017 at 5:49 pm by Samuel Wan
Over much of the past couple of years, AMD has significantly lagged behind Intel’s process node. This all changed with the latest Ryzen series which uses the 14nm ...
September 21, 2017 at 8:58 am by Samuel Wan
As the underdog, AMD has to be more aggressive than Intel to seize marketshare. At the same time, Intel enjoys greater economies of scale and can charge more as the dominant ...
August 24, 2017 at 5:52 pm by Samuel Wan
Ever since the company fell behind on performance, AMD has been emphasizing their price performance. In that past, that meant sacrificing real performance in one aspect or ...
August 1, 2017 at 8:24 am by Samuel Wan
With their new Zen architecture, AMD has struck gold. The new design allows their processors to compete with Intel. Due to the competitiveness, AMD is reentering the high end ...
July 30, 2017 at 7:50 am by Samuel Wan
Over the past couple of months, AMD has been slowing teasing and announcing their new Threadripper lineup. Based on the successful Zen architecture and Ryzen CPUs, ...
July 7, 2017 at 8:26 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier this year, AMD revealed their new server offerings, codenamed Naples. Based on the new Zen architecture, Naples is AMD’s answer to Intel’s Xeon lineup. ...
June 21, 2017 at 7:59 am by Samuel Wan
With their new Zen architecture, AMD is making a remarkable comeback in the CPU market. Earlier this year, AMD already launched their mainstream Ryzen CPUs. During Computex, ...
June 15, 2017 at 7:20 am by Samuel Wan
During their event last month, AMD announced the new Threadripper CPUs. After years spent being the underdog, AMD is finally returning to the high-end desktop space. At the ...
June 14, 2017 at 7:40 am by Samuel Wan
During Computex, AMD revealed their competitor for the high-end desktop market. Dubbed Threadripper, the lineup features up to 16 cores and 32 threads. Just like Intel, the ...
June 6, 2017 at 7:53 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the month, AMD revealed their new high-end Threadripper CPUs. Sitting above the current Ryzen lineup, AMD has since confirmed that Threadripper is more than just a ...
May 29, 2017 at 7:18 am by Samuel Wan
After their recent Analyst Day event, AMD shared some details about their future Ryzen plans. As we all know by now, AMD set up Ryzen to be a long term brand they hope to ...
May 23, 2017 at 10:27 am by Samuel Wan
With the latest generation of releases, it seems like both Intel and AMD have had trouble keeping control over their chips. Earlier in the week, we got a review of the Ryzen ...
April 8, 2017 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
During the Ryzen launch, some interesting performance problems popped up for Windows 10. Due to the way Windows 10 handled power states for Ryzen, performance was markedly ...
April 7, 2017 at 11:35 am by Samuel Wan
