Lowers temperatures by 1-3°C

Noctua has now officially launched the new offset mounting system for installing Noctua CPU coolers on AMD AM5 processors. These were quite popular at the Computex 2023 show where Noctua had officially showcased that mounting system, as it came as a surprise that offsetting the base of the cooler by 7mm to the south side can lower the temperature by 1-3°C.

Same SP5 socket, and around 35 percent smaller core

AMD unveiled plenty of new products during its Data Center and AI Technology Premiere event in San Francisco, including some details about its 5nm EPYC Bergamo processors for cloud native applications. Shipping now, these EPYC CPUs pack 82b transistors, up to 128 Zen 4c cores, and promise both "the greatest vCPU density and the best energy efficiency.

Damn those Visigoths

AMD's latest processor revision guide for the EPYC 7002 'Rome' server chips reveals a bug that can cause a core on the chip to hang after 1,044 days of uptime (2.93 years), after which you'll have to reset the server for the chip to run correctly.

One to have for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

AMD has released its latest Software Adrenalin 23.5.1 WHQL driver which, surprisingly, does not feature support for the Radeon RX 7600 graphics card. On the other hand it fixes several issues and brings day one support for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum game.

Roundup: Available tomorrow at $269

AMD has officially lifted the review NDA for its Radeon RX 7600 8GB graphics card. Based on Navi 33 GPU, the Radeon RX 7600 packs 2,048 Stream Processors, targets 1080p gaming, and is considered a direct successor of the Radeon RX 6600. It will officially be available tomorrow, starting at $269.

Zen 2 and RDNA 2 for Chromebooks

AMD has announced the new lineup of Ryzen and Athlon 7020 C-series processors aimed at Chromebooks. Based on the 6nm manufacturing process and the last year's Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU architectures, these new processors will be coming to new Chromebooks in Q2 2023.

6nm Navi 33 GPU, 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and 165W TBP

The final specifications of the upcoming Radeon RX 7600 have leaked online, showing all the details of the upcoming AMD Radeon RDNA 3 graphics card that should launch later this month.

Increase cores

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster thinks he will level the playing field between AMD and Intel in the CPU market essentially by copying what Chipzilla is doing.

3nm processing wars

Samsung’s bottom line might get a boost from the fruity cargo-cult Apple’s decision to stick all its 3nm processing in TMSC’s basket.

Things hit rock bottom last quarter

The Mercury Research CPU market has had a look at results for the first quarter and reached the conclusion that we are seeing the green shoots of recovery for CPU sales.