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Overclockers Using Windows 7 to Set AMD Ryzen World Record
Even up until a month before Ryzen launched, the expectation was that AMD’s processors would be fully supported on Windows 7. Those hopes were dashed when the company revealed that unleashing the full performance would require Windows 10. Despite this fact though, it appears that lack of full support is…
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AMD Interview Reveals More Ryzen Details
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 plans. Luckily for us, AMD has shared some more information in the form of an interview with the company’s own Robert Hallock.…
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Soft Machines Reveals Proof of Concept VISC CPU
Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in what is essentially “reverse Hyper-Threading”. Today the CPU design house revealed their proof of concept chip along with a number of key design details. With VISC, Soft Machines is hoping…
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Rumors Suggest AMD Zen Instruction Set Parity with Haswell/Broadwell
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 a 40% IPC increase compared to Excavator, bringing AMD’s IPC much closer to Intel’s in one jump. Zen…
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AMD’s Official Roadmaps Reveals the Company’s Plans for the next 5 Years
AMD has revealed what the company plans to do with its GPUs and CPUs in the next 5 years at the PC Cluster Consortium event in Osaka Japan, where AMD’s Junji Hayashi revealed the company’s roadmap. During the event, AMD has focused on its graphics IP and the products that…
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Next-Gen AMD CPU Could Offer Serious Competition for Intel
AMD hasn’t let much slip about their future CPU plans, except that they won’t make the transition before it makes financial sense. Rumours still point towards a 2016 Q2 to Q3 timeline with the latest coming from SweOverclockers. The new AMD Zen could be built on a 14nm process which is quite…
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