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Everything AMD Announced At Computex 2019
Invited to give Computex’s opening keynote for the first time in the company’s history, AMD chief executive Dr Lisa Su began the annual tech show by demoing a 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen desktop gaming CPU, Navi GPUs and a new collaboration with Microsoft.
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AMD’s 16-Core Beast Creams Intel, But You Might Be Better Off Without It
I won’t lie, when AMD’s new 16-core monster CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, arrived, I ran around the office showing off it and its accompanying air cooler to anyone who would make eye contact with me. The thing is enormous—easily twice as large as a standard desktop CPU from Intel. The air cooler, saddled with…
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Inside AMD’s Quest to Build Chips That Can Beat Intel
There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch. Former AMD board member Robert Palmer supposedly compared it to Russian roulette: “You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out.”…
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AMD’s Ryzen CPUs Just Got A Black Friday Discount
If you’ve been holding out on a CPU upgrade, good news: AMD’s entire Ryzen line just got a haircut across the board just ahead of Black Friday.