AMD unveils $55-priced Athlon 200GE
Zen and Vega on a dual-core APU
AMD has decided to keep the Athlon brand alive and has launched the Athlon 200GE, an entry-level APU with two Zen-cores with SMT-enabled, as well as Vega graphics with 3CUs, all at $55.
AMD makes a semi-custom SoC for China market
Updated: Could be perfect for a living room PC
AMD has announced a new semi-custom SoC at ChinaJoy, based on Zen CPU cores and Vega graphics, which was created for ??? Subor company and its new console/PC, expected to launch in late-August.
The reason why AMD's Vega power was high
Power optimization engineers went to EPYC
It is no big secret that Vega 64 and 56 had quite high thermals and didn’t actually meet some of its performance targets. Some key power optimization engineers were pulled from the Vega team to the more important goal. The Naples server chip had a higher priority.
Powercolor RX Vega 56 Nano comes at Computex 2018
Custom design, availability in early June
Powercolor has officially announced that it will be unveiling its new Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition at the Computex 2018 show, which kicks off on June 5th.
AMD has 7nm Radeon Instinct running in its lab
Made at TSMC
During its Q1 2018 financial conference call yesterday, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, confirmed that 7nm is on track and that 7nm Radeon Instinct is running in its labs.
Vega 7nm is not a GPU
Current plan: will never be
Many AMD fanboys hoped that Vega 7 nm would be a GPU that could make Vega more competitive to Nvidia's offering.
AMD bundles Far Cry 5 with select Radeon equipped systems
Systems with RX Vega 64, Vega 56 or RX 580
AMD has launched a limited time promotion which gives a free copy of the Far Cry 5 game to those that buy a PC system with select Radeon graphics cards.
Dell XPS 15 2in1 looks like a winner
Radeon Vega Intel and Gore space cooling
It is not every day that you have a chance to chat with the general manager of Alienware and the chief man in charge for the XPS units. Frank Azor, the GM of Alienware and XPS, as well as Donnie Oliphant, Sr. Director and General Manager XPS and Dell Gaming helped us understand the choices behind one of the highly anticipated XPS 15 2in1 2018 notebooks.
Lisa Su confirms 7nm Vega - again
Sample in 2018, shipping unknown
If there is one difference between journalists to financial investors about the Vega 7 nm there is a very different view. Now, Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD has confirmed that 7nm can be used for artificial intelligence and that it will sample in 2018.
AMD announces Ryzen desktop CPU with Radeon Vega graphics
Two desktop APUs launching on February 12th
AMD took the CES 2018 show by storm, revealing a lot of information regarding its GPU and CPU futures as well as some of the upcoming new products, including its desktop APUs.