‘AMD Milan outperforms Intel’
Researchers from Cockroach Labs conclude that the most powerful cloud instances run on AMD Milan. The processors outperform Intel Ice Lake and Cascade Lake.
Cockroach Labs investigated the cloud instance offering of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS. The report sheds light on providers' pri... Read more
AMD introduces Ryzen 7000 CPUs based on Zen 4 architecture
AMD recently introduced the Ryzen 7000, a new desktop processor. The 5 nanometer model is based on Zen 4 architecture and accompanied by a new installation socket. Furthermore, AMD announced a new series of laptop processors.
AMD announced the news during a keynote at Computex 2022. The Ryzen 7... Read more
AMD chooses Google Cloud to provide chip design automation workload
Chip-making expert Advanced Micro Devices has planned to shift its workload of electronic design automation to Google Cloud to achieve better performance and flexibility
Google Cloud and AMD have announced a groundbreaking collaboration of electronic design automation (EDA) for the chip design w... Read more
AMD and Qualcomm to introduce wifi 6, 6E and remote wifi management
The AMD Ryzen Pro 6000 will become the first chip to feature Qualcomm FastConnect 6900.
AMD and Qualcomm are collaborating to optimize Ryzen Pro business laptops with FastConnect 6900 wifi connectivity.
The optimization uses a 6GHz wireless band. It's speculated that FastConnect will offer i... Read more
Dynabook introduces Satellite Pro C40D-B laptops with AMD processors
Dynabook recently introduced a series of new business Satellite Pro C40D-B laptops. The laptops are based on AMD Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 processors.
The laptops are well-suited for hybrid work due to their relatively low weight. The devices feature either a AMD Ryzen 5 5600U or Ryzen7 5800U processo... Read more
AMD introduces dedicated line of Chromebook processors
The new AMD Ryzen 5000 C-Series brings Zen 3 architecture to to Chromebooks.
According to ADM, the Ryzen 5000 C-Series processors provides a suitable alternative to the Intel processors typically featured in Chromebooks. It's safe to say that AMD is seriously upping its competetiveness in this s... Read more
AMD increases revenue by 71 percent
AMD's sales increased by a whopping 71 percent in the first quarter of 2022. Its EPYC server processors were particularly popular. The acquisition of chip manufacturer Xilinx contributed significantly.
Revenue rose to 5.89 billion dollars (5.6 billion euros), a 71 percent increase from the same ... Read more
AMD acquires Pensando, focuses on programmable processors
AMD announces the acquisition of Pensando. AMD is acquiring the processor specialist for $1.9 billion.
Pensando specializes in P4 Capri, a programmable processor. Over the past five years, the organization raised more than $300 million in growth capital. Pensando's customers use the programmable... Read more
New AMD EPYC chips have a bigger cache
AMD has finally made available four new EPYC high-end server processors with a bigger cache to carry out workload intensive operations
In a recent reveal, AMD added four new SKUs processors to its previously nicknamed Milan-X (presently EPYC) state-of-the-art chips lineup. The addition gave way ... Read more
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets big updates to network, storage and compute
Oracle continues to invest in public cloud, adding no fewer than eleven cloud services and features to OCI, across the breadth of its offerings.
Flexibility is one of Oracle's magic words these days when it comes to OCI, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. That has quite a few implications for the o... Read more