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AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020

'Are we going to bet the company's road map on chiplets?' AMD's CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes

By Nick Evanson published

News 'I really do believe for tech companies, the key is you have to be best at something.'

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia 'have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year' and 'kept it really quiet'

By Jacob Fox published

News Kept schtum on that one, huh?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor

Researchers argue that 'at least 40%' of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency

By Jacob Fox published

News They propose a big SHRINK.

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Intel Raptor Lake chip with die diagram edited beneath the heat spreader

Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core

By Nick Evanson published

News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.

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A plethora of RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards at an angle on a dark gradient background

AMD has officially revealed its RDNA 4-based RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs and they look a lot like RDNA 3, only turbocharged

By Andy Edser published

News $549 for the RX 9070, $599 for the RX 9070 XT.

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A stylised image of AMD's RDNA 3 GPU design for its Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards

'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA

By Nick Evanson published

news Change is good, right?

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Promotional image of a generic Snapdragon X Plus chip in a stylized circuit board

Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?

By Nick Evanson published

news Nearly two years on and there's still no sign of the two companies coming to an agreement.

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A photo of an Intel Lunar Lake processor, showing the main chip and two DRAM modules

Intel's new Lunar Lake CPU is simultaneously wonderful, weird and worrisome, but has the makings of an awesome handheld gaming chip

By Jeremy Laird published

News Say what you want about Intel's new mobile CPU, it's not boring.

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Intel's Lunar Lake GPU architecture on show at an event in Taiwan.

It's on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake's new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture

By Jacob Ridley published

News The Xe2 GPU architecture will power everything from low-power mobile chips to desktop graphics cards.

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Image of a Ryzen 9000 series processor with the heat spreader removed, against a red background

Peeking under the hood of AMD's Zen 5: Here's what has been changed and improved in the new CPU architecture

By Nick Evanson published

news Deceptively small updates to the CPU architecture combine to give the new processors a 16% bigger punch on average

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