Following the “Ryzen AI” rebrand of its mobile APU series, AMD is allegedly altering the naming convention of itsRadeonGPUs as the RDNA 4 family is rumored to adopt the RX 9000 moniker, per renowned leakersHXLand momomo_us. This rumor is further supported by information shared byAll The Watts, which is a massive catalog of GPUs that AMD might disclose next month at CES. pic.twitter.com/sGRZn2z2I7December 22, 2024 The new naming convention adopts an X0X0 pattern, with X being a wildcard, in contrast to AMD’s existing XX00 scheme....

AMD is giving gamers two new games (except for Japan-based buyers, which only get one title) forevery new purchase of its RX 7800XT and 7700XT GPUs— from participating retailers. Buyers can choose among Company of Heroes 3, Lies of P, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Starfield Premium Edition, with CoH3 being a new addition to the bundling program. These AAA titles launched in 2023 and currently cost between $40 and $100, so you effectively get a $100 to $170 discount on these $450 to $500 GPUs — provided you were otherwise planning to buy both games but have not yet done so....

Starting on July 7, AnandTech forum member Igor_Kavinski began postingRyzen 9 9950Xengineering sample Blender benchmark results courtesy of an unnamed source — starting at a super-slim 60W TDP. Over the course of the following week, 90W TDP, 120W TDP, 160W TDP, and finally, max-capacity 230W TDP results were also posted. The results give us a comprehensive idea of how power efficiency will improve with next-gen Zen 5 AMD CPUs. Before proceeding, it’s evident that the newer Ryzen 9 9950X would outperform the older chip when given a more generous power budget....

We all use artificial intelligence one way or another these days, it may be built-intoMicrosoft’s Word or work behindGoogle’s Gmail. But a major difference between the former and the latter is that the Microsoft app does not need an Internet connection, while Gmail does. The same thing applies to OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s image generation: it needs a connection. But how about a program that does not? Welcome, AMD Amuse 2.0.0 Beta....

Apple has revealed that it didn’t use Nvidia’s hardware accelerators to develop its recently revealedApple Intelligencefeatures. According to an official Appleresearch paper(PDF), it instead relied onGoogleTPUs to crunch the training data behind the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models. Systems packingGoogle TPUv4and TPUv5 chips were instrumental to the creation of the Apple Foundation Models (AFMs). These models, AFM-server and AFM-on-device models, were designed to power online and offline Apple Intelligence features which were heralded back at WWDC 2024 in June....

ASML announced at imec’s ITF World 2024 conference that it has now set a new chipmaking density record with its first High-NA machine, surpassing a record it set just two months ago. ASML‘s former President and CTO, Martin van den Brink, who now serves in an advisory role at the company, also proposed that the company could develop a Hyper-NA chipmaking tool to deliver further scaling beyond its High-NA machine and shared potential roadmaps....

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color To verify the PA32UCXR’s factory calibration, I measured the modes that will be most commonly used, Rec.709, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, Display P3 and Rec.2020. At the end of this page, there’s a summary of all the test results for each mode....

AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology has been the holy grail for gaming ever since the inception of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. With Milan-X and Genoa-X, the idea of vertically stacking cache chiplets atop CCDs spread to servers as well. Interestingly, it turns out thatAsus' WRX90"sTR5" motherboards for the Threadripper 7000 lineup feature an option to manually override or disable 3D V-Cache in said chips perVideocardz. However, no known Threadripper CPU hosts 3D V-Cache, at least not yet....

BBOS provides tools out of the box that make developing projects much easier. BBOS provides a command line interface (or CLI) that lets you interface with the RP2040 board directly. This makes it possible to not only interact with the Pi but also handle practical functions like real-time debugging. This can be a time saver when troubleshooting, getting you closer to your end project faster. McKinley explains more about the development of BBOS over at the official project page....

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According to semiconductor analysis firmSemiAnalysis, China’s memory maker CXMT has new DRAM chips and fabrication nodes that blatantly violate U.S. export rules. At the recent IEDM conference, China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) introduced its first dynamic random access memory (DRAM) made using its 18nm half-pitch process technology featuring gate-all-around (GAA) transistors. DRAM makers have been striving to achieve a 4F^2 cell design for years. It is considered a very efficient memory cell layout in DRAM circuits, enabling makers to build high-capacity chips cheaply....

If you have a high-end graphics card such as an RTX 4090 or RTX 4080, it almost certainly has three fans because it needs all the cooling it can get. A hot card is a slow card, but a card with three fans that’s running at load is also a source of noise. Some folks try to address this problem by replacing their GPU fans with custom water blocks, but that requires them to use open-loop cooling which is expensive, difficult and a bridge too far for most people....

IDC has publishedthe latest PC shipment statistics for Q4 2023, showing 67.1 million PCs shipped worldwide during the quarter. Despite large numbers, IDC states it “marginally surpassed expectations” since it reflects 2.7% fewer shipments compared to Q4 2022. The fourth quarter usually has many holidays and sales events across many countries. Good deals are typically available during this time, encouraging people to make a purchase. IDC calculated shipment data from over 90 countries which includes traditional PCs, desktops, notebooks and workstations....