Bad week for dropping the ball

Intel and AMD dropped the ball on some key products. AMD said it was postponing this month's launch of the 7040HS series to April, and Chipzilla abandoned its Thunder Bay niche accelerator.

Only Dragon Range for now

Although originally meant to launch in March, the AMD Ryzen 7040HS Phoenix laptop CPU series has been officially pushed back to April.

The Ryzen 9 7945HX goes against Core i9-13950HX

AMD has announced the availability of its Ryzen 7045HX-series Dragon Range CPUs for high performance gaming laptops. These Zen 4 Dragon Range 5nm chiplet-design chips, should be enough to get ahead of Intel's 13th gen Raptor Lake counterparts, at least according to AMD.

Up to 24 percent faster in some scenarios

AMD has now officially released the first official gaming benchmarks for its Ryzen 7 7800X3D SKU that is scheduled to launch on April 9th.

At least in the Cinebench R23 benchmark

AMD Threadripper has been dethroned as the King of PCs by Intel's Xeon W9-3495X 56-core workstation processor.

Four GB is just so out of date

AMD 600-series motherboards are about to get 24GB and 48GB DDR5 memory module support with the next AGESA firmware update.

As promised by AMD last year

AMD has been promising cheaper AM5 motherboards for quite some time and now, ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 is listed at Newegg.com for $124.99.

24 GB and 48 GB modules/kits are a no-go for AMD

While Intel 600- and 700-series boards are happily working with new 24 GB DDR5 memory modules and kits, it appears that AMD and motherboard makers have yet to make it work.

For Halo Infinite Ray Tracing and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

AMD has released its latest Adrenalin Edition 23.3.1 WHQL GPU driver which brings suport for Halo Infinite Ray Tracing Update and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty games, as well as fixes some issues.

Will it be limited to RDNA 3 GPUs?

AMD could possibly preview its next generation FidelityFX Super Resolution at the Game Developers Conference 2023 (GDC 2023) on March 23rd.