One of the measures for the cost of a CPU is the size of its die. With a smaller die size, it’s possible to stuff more onto a single silicon wafer and reduce the cost of ...
February 8, 2017 at 1:00 am by Samuel Wan
With AMD finally set to competitive again with Ryzen, Intel is starting to make moves to secure their near monopoly. We’ve already seen some of those moves in the new ...
February 7, 2017 at 9:48 am by Samuel Wan
In just under a month, one of the biggest PC hardware launches in recent history will happen. AMD has officially confirmed that the launch for Ryzen will take place in early ...
February 4, 2017 at 9:36 am by Samuel Wan
Over the past couple of months, various AMD Ryzen engineering samples have surfaced. Starting off at 3.3 GHz, the most recent ones have gone as high as 3.6 GHz base clock. ...
February 4, 2017 at 9:06 am by Samuel Wan
In just a month, AMD will likely have launched their new Zen based Ryzen processors. After years in the darkness, AMD will finally have some strong competition against ...
February 3, 2017 at 3:52 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD has announced that its new Ryzen processors will support Windows 7. The bold move – announced by AMD a special Ryzen event – should ensure an extra slice of market ...
February 3, 2017 at 1:00 am by Ashley Allen
Earlier in the week, some reports started surfacing about the lack of 6 core variants of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs being missing at launch. Some sources even when as far to say ...
February 2, 2017 at 10:07 am by Samuel Wan
During their latest earnings call, AMD revealed some more key details for their CPU roadmap. As has already been confirmed by AMD, their new Ryzen CPUs are set to launch ...
February 2, 2017 at 8:53 am by Samuel Wan
In anticipation for the launch of AMD’s latest AM4 Ryzen CPU, Austrian manufacturer Noctua is re-launching three of their award-winning models as special edition AM4 ...
February 2, 2017 at 1:10 am by Ron Perillo
Ahead of the Ryzen launch, many motherboard vendors have started to show off some of their new motherboards. Starting with Bristol Ridge and Ryzen, AMD is moving to a new ...
January 30, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
With the next 2 months, AMD is set to launch Ryzen. Based off of the new Zen architecture, the new lineup has been reported to carry the SR7, SR5 and SR3 monikers. Previous ...
January 30, 2017 at 8:55 am by Samuel Wan
With new CPUs and motherboards released recently in the form of Intel Kaby Lake Z270 and AMD Ryzen AM4, some users are left wondering whether their existing or planned CPU ...
January 24, 2017 at 4:00 pm by Ron Perillo
With New Horizon and CES behind us, we now have much more information about Zen and Ryzen. However, there still remain many unanswered questions going forward for AMD’s ...
January 16, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
When AMD first revealed Ryzen, the focus was logically on the top end flagship product. That chip features 8 cores and 16 threads and is clocked somewhere north of 3.4 GHz for ...
January 12, 2017 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
During their CES presentation and earlier events, AMD stayed away from offering a firm launch date for their Ryzen CPUs. So far, the only official information is that AMD has ...
January 12, 2017 at 8:20 am by Samuel Wan
