July 31, 2019

AMD specific news

AMD Working to Get More Ryzen 7 3800X, 3900X CPUs in Marketedit

When we attended E3 in June for AMD’s Ryzen launch event, company CEO Lisa Su made a curious reference to the long-rumored 16-core CPU. According to her, AMD hadn’t held off on announcing the chip due to competitive reasons, or to see what Intel had in its own pocket, but simply because they wanted to provide a little extra oomph to the E3 launch event.

Publication: UC News

AMD Ryzen 7nm CPUs May Not Hit Maximum Boost Frequency on All Coresedit

AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 3000 CPUs may not be able to hit their boost frequencies on every CPU core. This is a departure from previous clocking methods on CPUs, but does it actually represent a problem? The post AMD Ryzen 7nm CPUs May Not Hit Maximum Boost Frequency on All Cores appeared first on ExtremeTech.

Publication: NewsR

AMD Readies AGESA ComboAM4 1.0.0.3ABB, Addresses Several Issues Affecting 3rd Gen Ryzenedit

AMD today addressed multiple issues with its 3rd generation Ryzen processors through a highly-recommended update to its Chipset Driver software. To begin with, it stated that several users noticed anomalous behavior with 3rd generation Ryzen chips where the voltages and clock-speeds would be raised as the processor would misinterpret low-scale performance requests from certain software as a request to unlock higher performance states (combinations of higher clock-speeds and voltages to support them).

Publication: Tech PowerUp

AMD Ryzen 3000 Pro SKUs spotted on EEC Portal: Ryzen 3500 the New Budget King?edit

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 family appears all set to get even bigger if recent EEC listing is anything to go by. The listing is found on the Eurasian Economic Union’s EEC portal and is in Russian. Thankfully, I know Russian so you’re completely out of luck here. The listing, for notification RU0000043701, was published four days ago, on July 26th. Interestingly, it mentioned that the items were registered on the portal even earlier, on the 8th of July, so these parts have been floating around for quite some time.

Publication: Techquila

AMD brand mentions

Google to Adopt AMD Epyc Rome CPUs for Servers, Intel Xeon to be Phased Outedit

Intel is gradually losing its grip over the consumer market with AMD’s Ryzen 3000 chips becoming the company’s best product stack, ever. However, things might get worse for Intel and the 7nm storm might spill into the lucrative server space. Intel has an overwhelming majority in the enterprise space with more than 90% of the market share.

Publication: Techquila

ASRock Confirms Mid-August Launch of its Custom RX 5700 XTedit

ASRock confirmed that its custom-design Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics cards will launch in the 2nd week of August, 2019. Most AMD add-in board (AIB) partners are expected to announce their custom-design RX 5700-series graphics cards around that time. ASRock responded to a buyer’s query about the RX 5700 XT Challenger, one of the three known custom-design RX 5700 XT products by the company, besides Phantom Gaming and Taichi.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

ACER AOPEN 24HC1QR P GAMING MONITOR REVIEWedit

If you read the title and were wondering what or who Aopen were, well they’re an Acer subsidiary that develop a variety of IoT related displays. We recently got our hands on their 24 inch curved screen gaming monitor. Specifically the 24HC1QR, a full HD curved display boosted by AMD’s Radeon FreeSync tech.

Publication: IGN India

Competition in news

The Best Cheap SSDs for 2019edit

A dozen-plus makers are churning out SSDs for the U.S. market, among them storage heavyweights Samsung, Micron, Intel, Toshiba, and Western Digital. And since the start of the ’10s, SSDs have morphed from exorbitantly priced luxury items into commodities whose quality is almost uniformly high.

Publication: PC Mag

10th Gen Intel Core i3-10110U “Comet Lake-U” iGPU Beats NVIDIA MX250edit

ntel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-U CPUs are almost here. They should start popping up in stores by October along with the 10nm Ice Lake-U parts in premium ultrabooks and laptops. It is important to keep in mind that the two architectures are completely different. While Comet Lake is a more mature form of Coffee lake with the same Gen 9.5 iGPU on the 14nm node, Ice Lake features the 10nm process with the Sunny Cove cores along with the much more potent Gen 11 iGPU.

Publication: Techquila

Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake-Y CPU Based on 10nm Process Spottededit

Intel’s 10th Gen Ice Lake-U and Comet Lake-U CPUs are set to hit retail in the next 2-3 months. Although team blue will continue to get pummeled by AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors in the mainstream desktop market, the laptop space should see the introduction of some speedy, power-efficient devices courtesy of the Sunny Cove cores and the much-awaited 10nm node.

Publication: Techquila

Partner in news

ACER AOPEN 24HC1QR P GAMING MONITOR REVIEWedit

If you read the title and were wondering what or who Aopen were, well they’re an Acer subsidiary that develop a variety of IoT related displays. We recently got our hands on their 24 inch curved screen gaming monitor. Specifically the 24HC1QR, a full HD curved display boosted by AMD’s Radeon FreeSync tech.

Publication: IGN India

Industry news

Quantum Computing: A Revolution in Computing is On the Wayedit

Quantum computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as entanglement and superposition to perform computation. It can help solve tough challenges and certain computational problems much faster than classic computing architectures.

Publication: Open Source For You

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