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Back at CES, AMD promised to ‘push the envelope' of high performance computing once again in 2020 and so far, the company is off to a very good start. Today, the Ryzen 9 3990X officially launches, bringing a whopping 64-cores and 128 threads to desktop platforms. We have been fortunate …

Just how good is AMD's 64-core Threadripper processor? Here's our deep-dive review

The first review of a laptop using a Ryzen 4000 series CPU has been published online. A Ukrainian website reviewed the upcoming Acer Swift 3 SF314-42, which houses the mid-tier Ryzen 5 4500U. With this being our first look at a Ryzen 4000 series laptop processor in action, we had a peek at the …

Following on from AMD's Q4 2019 results, some interesting news has been shared, detailing AMD's gains in the x86 CPU market over the last year.

Last week, we got news that Intel was in the midst of shaking up its AI strategy, with plans to drop a previously announced AI training chip from Nervana and re-focus on hardware from Habana Labs. Since then, Intel has been in touch, sharing a statement confirming the new changes. …

ASRock has announced this week that it received a huge increase in its revenue during 2019. The company proclaimed that it saw revenue increase 31.61% over a year-on-year basis and delivered total revenue of $443.16 million USD in 2019. According to a recent article by DigiTimes, the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer …

In just over a months’ time, the 2020 Formula 1 season will be underway when the lights go out in Melbourne Australia and AMD will be on the grid. The company has announced a multi-year deal with current Formula 1 world champions, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team. AMD and the Mercedes-AMG …

With Intel's Comet Lake CPUs expected some time later this year, the first 3DMark results have emerged purporting to show how the upcoming 10-core i9-10900K performs in these benchmarks. Compared directly to AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X, 3DMark Physics scores are essentially the same between the two processors. According to Notebookcheck, …

AMD’s B550A chipset made its debut in October 2019 with a range of Gigabyte motherboards specifically designed for OEM systems. Since then, AMD has remained tight-lipped on the possibility of any budget 500 series motherboards for consumers. However, that could change now since a Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database entry …

Intel has been looking to pin its flag in the AI market for years now, with efforts to create AI chips kicking off with the purchase of Nervana in 2016 and extending to a huge $2 billion acquisition of Israeli firm, Habana Labs. While Intel only just announced new Nervana …

A new listing on UserBenchmark has revealed a CPU named as the Intel Core i5-L16G7. This CPU belongs to the upcoming Intel Lakefield line of processors, which use the new 3D Foveros packaging. This listing also shows that Intel is likely to change the naming convention of its processors with …

Zhaoxin is a Chinese semiconductor company built on a partnership between Via Technologies and the Chinese Government. This company already has multiple companies using its processors, but with the launch of what seems to be Zhaoxin's first CPU for DIY enthusiasts, the KaiXian KX-6780A, the company may start to target a new …

ASRock has listed its potential Z490 motherboard range in an official piece of software...

As the UK prepares to officially leave the European Union this Friday (31st January), the European Processor Initiative (EPI) is priming the first prototype of its HPC processor designed for advanced computing applications. The EPI was set up by the European Commission as part of the Framework Partnership Agreement, with …

While AMD and GlobalFoundries used to work hand in hand, in recent years there has been a shift over to TSMC for AMD's CPU and GPU fabrication needs. GlobalFoundries may end up with a big new contract though, with reports claiming that Intel might be looking to team up.  According …

While the Eurasian Economic Commission database submissions do not always prove to be accurate it is often a reliable source for little snippets of information from AMD, Intel and Nvidia board partners. One of the latest submission could be a sign of what’s to come soon. Although there is still …

Intel has announced its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results for 2019 and despite AMD's recent resurgence with Zen 2 architecture based processors, Intel’s annual revenue has increased to $72 billion, which is a record financial year for the company. Intel has recorded a record fourth-quarter financial result for 2019 with …

It's rumoured that Intel might continue to cut the prices of its CPUs this year to battle AMD's own aggressive product pricing...

AMD has announced a new deal with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) which will see the CPU giant supply 2nd generation EPYC processors to power one of the most advanced meteorological supercomputers in the world, in the Atos BullSequana XH2000. AMD had a successful year in 2019 …

A couple of weeks ago ASRock dropped specifications on its website of AMD’s new RX 5600 XT graphics cards a little earlier than expected. The company has now officially announced its Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU range which includes new Phantom Gaming and Challenger series cards. ASRock has unveiled its …

A screenshot purporting to show a 22-core Intel i9-10990XE HEDT CPU has appeared online...

Luke and Leo share their views on the Intel NUC 9 Extreme at CES 2020

we look at the NUC 9 Extreme with an EVGA RTX 2060 KO GPU crammed inside

Luke is at the Corsair booth taking a look at what new coolers the company is launching for 2020

Last night AMD revealed the final details for the 64-core Threadripper 3990X, including its release date and price tag...

At CES today, AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, proudly proclaimed that 2020 is going to be an even bigger year, with the company focused on delivering the very best, That battle is starting off in the laptop sector, with the brand new Ryzen 4000 mobile series processors, spearheaded by ‘the …

Just a few days ago, the potential specification of Intel’s 10th generation Core series desktop processors were leaked online and now an alleged internal Intel document appears to show the performance of the upcoming flagship ten-core Intel Core i9-10900K CPU...

AMD ended 2019 with the message that the company will push the envelope of high computing again in 2020, at the same time as announcing it will be holding its annual CES press conference on Monday 6th January at 2 pm. AMD finished off 2019 with a message on its …

Intel is set to fire back at AMD in the new year when the company launches its 10th generation desktop Core series processors. Exactly when this will be is still uncertain, however, the flagship Intel Core i9-10900K is expected to boast 10 cores to offer competition to current Ryzen 3000 …

Rumours suggest AMD Ryzen 4000 processor architecture could offer up to 20% performance increase over the previous generation