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AMD has recently expanded its Ryzen 8000 series by introducing the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors. Initially launched in China, these chips were added to AMD's global website, signaling they are available worldwide, apparently from April 1st. Built from the recent Zen 4-based Phoenix APUs using the TSMC 4nm node as their Zen 4 mobile chips, these new CPUs lack integrated graphics. However, the Ryzen 7 8700F does include the integrated Ryzen AI NPU for added capabilities in a world currently dominated by AI and moving it directly into the PC. The company's decision to announce these chips in China aligns with its strategy to offer Ryzen solutions at every price point in the market. Although AMD didn't initially disclose the full...
Green500 Supercomputer List Released: Intel Takes Top Spot, Followed By AMD, NVIDIA
Coinciding with the publication of the Top500 supercomputer list earlier this week, the Top500’s sister list, the Green500, was published earlier this morning. The Green500 is essentially to power...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2012
AMD Announces FirePro S10000
Kicking off this week is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known by its shortened name: SC. This year’s conference takes place...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012
AMD Launches Opteron 6300 series with "Piledriver" cores
Today AMD unveiled its new Opteron 6300 series server processors, code name "Abu Dhabi". The Opteron 6300 contains the new Piledriver cores, an evolutionary improvement of the Bulldozer cores. We...
22 by Johan De Gelas on 11/5/2012
AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014
Last year AMD officially became an ARM licensee, although the deal wasn't publicized at the time. Fast forward to June 2012 and we saw the first fruits of that...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/29/2012
The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
Last year's launch of AMD's FX processors was honestly disappointing. The Bulldozer CPU cores that were bundled into each Zambezi chip were hardly power efficient and in many areas...
251 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/23/2012
AMD’s 12.11 Mobility Catalyst: Enduro Hotfix [Mostly] Included
We already posted our overview of the 12.11 Catalyst drivers when used with desktop GPUs, but notebook users are naturally wondering where the promised mobile Hotfix driver is. The...
45 by Jarred Walton on 10/22/2012
AMD's Holiday Plans: Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver & New Holiday Game Bundle
Update: Catalyst 12.11 hss been releasd (Release Notes) As October winds to a close, the consumer electronics industry is making its final preparations for the holiday shopping season. Among events...
65 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2012
AMD Q3 2012 Earnings: $157M Loss; 15% of Workforce To Be Cut
Picking up from where we left off with Intel, earnings week has continued to roll along with most of the major tech companies having reported their Q3 earnings. As...
59 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2012Radeon HD 7850 Prices Fall Again
Update 10/07: AMD sent us a clarification this morning stating that they were not the ones responsible for the recent reduction in 7850 prices, bur rather that it was...
52 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2012
Testing AMD’s HD 7970M Enduro Hotfix
I just posted the full review of the Clevo P170EM from AVADirect, but there’s a ton of content specific to the Clevo notebook and I know many of you...
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AVADirect Clevo P170EM: Has AMD’s HD 7970M Got Game?
A couple weeks back, we posted something of a first look at the Clevo P170EM when we did our overview of AMD’s upcoming Enduro 5.5 release. As one of...
61 by Jarred Walton on 10/2/2012
AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2
Last week we took a look at the GPU side of the desktop Trinity APUs. We looked at the top end 384-core Radeon HD 7660D configuration as well as...
178 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/2/2012
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 7
We're back with another podcast. This time we start out with a discussion of Borderlands 2 and philosophies on sidequests in games. We briefly talk about TI defocusing its...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/1/2012
AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 1
After years of waiting, AMD finally unveiled its Llano APU platform fifteen months ago. The APU promise was a new world where CPUs and GPUs would live in harmony...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012
AMD’s Enduro 5.5 Public Beta Driver Available
About three weeks ago, I met with AMD to go over some concerns with their Enduro graphics switching technology. At the time, AMD gave me a preview release of...
44 by Jarred Walton on 9/26/2012
Midrange System Buyer's Guide
Intel has dominated the midrange and high-end segments of the desktop processor market since the release of its Sandy Bridge architecture in early 2011. A few months ago we...
95 by Zach Throckmorton on 9/11/2012
AMD Introduces SeaMicro SM15000 with Piledriver and Ivy Bridge Compute Cards
In its first major announcement since the acquisition by AMD, SeaMicro unveiled its SM15000 server. This is an updated version of the standard 10U SeaMicro chassis with 64 compute...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Johan De Gelas on 9/10/2012
AMD’s Enduro Switchable Graphics Levels Up
A couple weeks back, I contacted AMD to let them know I was working on a notebook review—a Clevo P170EM from AVADirect with HD 7970M graphics. Much to my...
200 by Jarred Walton on 9/6/2012
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 3
This week on the AnandTech Podcast we discuss the latest in chip architecture disclosures (both intentional and leaked) from AMD and Intel. Steamroller, Jaguar and Valleyview are all on...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/3/2012
Fall Budget System Buyer's Guide
Most of the systems I build for friends and clients are destined to spend their days performing basic computing tasks like checking email and Facebook accounts, shopping for shoes...
39 by Zach Throckmorton on 9/1/2012
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