When AMD first revealed their new architecture, the goal was for a 40% IPC uplift on top of Excavator. Over time, that got changed to 40%+ and now that Ryzen has launched, AMD ...
February 24, 2017 at 10:25 pm by Samuel Wan
With each passing week, it seems like more rumors are coming concerning AMD’s upcoming Zen processors. From previous reports, we had expected AMD to release Zen near ...
March 14, 2016 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
With AMD CPU market share down in the pits, everyone is looking towards Zen to give Intel some competition in the high-end segment. Even with DX12 reducing the need for a ...
March 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm by Samuel Wan
After many years of lagging CPU performance, AMD has suffered diminishing market and financial performance. This may change later this year as AMD comes back with their new ...
January 20, 2016 at 12:35 pm by Samuel Wan
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:26 am by Samuel Wan
AMD took a blow this past week after another major departure. While some have taken Jim Keller’s departure to be negative news, we aren’t so sure. Internally ...
September 21, 2015 at 9:29 am by Samuel Wan
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 ...
August 19, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have ...
August 14, 2015 at 10:30 am by Samuel Wan
More Skylake details have leaked out ahead of its August launch and this time around, we’re being treated to what appears to be official Intel slides. Once again, it ...
July 24, 2015 at 9:24 am by Samuel Wan
New information for AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture has been leaked ahead of the company’s annual Financial Analyst Day. The leak image appears to be an official ...
April 27, 2015 at 11:17 pm by Samuel Wan
