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Alibaba announced its newest CPU release this week with the XuanTie C930. The new RISC-V processor is built for AI-HPC workloads, and Alibaba describes it as its ‘first server-grade processor’ in an article published by theSouth China Morning Post. Damo Academy, Alibaba’s research and development institute, announced the XuanTie C930 at a conference in Beijing on Friday. Alibaba first teased the C930last yearwhen the company confirmed a 2024 release for the server chip....

Amazonis the latest tech company to join the nuclear bandwagon, investing in three energy companies to help bring more power output online across two states. The e-commerce giant signed agreements with Energy Northwest, a consortium of public utility companies in Washington State, X-energy, a small modular reactor (SMR) developer, and Dominion Energy, an electric utility provider based in Virginia that operates the North Anna nuclear power station.Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman said, “Nuclear is a safe source of carbon-free energy that can help power our operations and meet the growing demands of our customers, while helping us progress toward our Climate Pledge commitment to be net-zero across our operations by 2040....

Rumors indicateAmazonis reportedly considering an additional investment in AI firm Anthropic, which would bring its total stake to over $8 billion, according toReuters. This would cement Amazon as the company’s largest investor and signal that it remains more interested in profiting from the explosive growth of the AI industry than directly competing within it. Since the launch of several highly capable large language AI models in 2022, Amazon has been positioning itself as the prime resource to power the AI gold rush....

AMD has issued aproduct discontinuation noticefor many programmable logic devices the company currently offers, including all CoolRunner and CoolRunner II CPLDs, as well as Spartan II and Spartan 3 FPGAs. The notice explicitly states that “no direct replacement” has been made for any of the axed CPLDs or FPGAs. Should AMD choose to not make any replacements in the future, it would mark the end of the company’s CPLD products....

Jack Huynh, the Senior Vice President and GM of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, will take the stage today in Taipei, Taiwan, for the company’sComputex2025 keynote. The event begins today at 11 p.m. ET, and we’ll be covering it live here with all the latest updates. While we aren’t yet sure what the company will reveal, rumors have been circulating for months about AMD’s comingRadeon9070 GPUs and next-gen Threadripper CPUs, so it’s possible those will make an appearance....

AMD is preparing to launch its next-generation desktop CPU and motherboard series. The current flagship consumer motherboard chipset from AMD is theX670(E), which we’d expect to be succeeded by the X760 (E). However, recent leaks suggest AMD will skip ahead and dub the next chipset X860 (E), running in parallel with Intel’s 800 motherboard chipset series like theIntel Z890 flagship. Both x86 CPU vendors will thus simultaneously be offering 800 series chipsets - which shouldn’t but may cause more confusion among customers....

📍AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors📍AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores📍AMD launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon◼ AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops...

TheRX 7700 XTis AMD’s latest generation GPU to take on the “x700” series nomenclature. Despite being a successor to the RX 6700 XT and RX 6750 XT, these two older GPUs are still readily available at competitive prices, providing viable alternatives to the newer part and making this a good time to compare all three GPUs in a three-way faceoff.TheRX 6700 XTis the oldest card of the bunch, launching in 2021 at the height of the GPU shortages....

AMD has finally shared a release date for its upcoming RX 9070 series GPUs, after teasing them atCES2025. AMD’s David McAfeeposted on Xthat the new GPUs will officially go on sale in March. The VP and GM of AMD also stated that gamers could expect a “wide assortment of cards” to be available globally. AMD’s software solution for theRadeon9000 series is also purportedly “looking great,” so we should expect launch day and review day drivers to be stable....

AMD is set to formally introduce itsRyzen 9000-series processorsbased on the Zen 5 microarchitecture on July 31, and reviews are expected to emerge around that date. Therefore, AMD is probably sending out samples of these CPUs to reviewers as we speak. In fact, photos of the upcoming products have leaked out. Motherboard makers are also prepping for the arrival of AMD’s newest desktop processors and are adding stickers that signify their platforms support Ryzen 9000 CPUs....

Edit 19-05-2025 4:45am PT:The researchers who discovered the flaw in AMD’s chips contend that the vulnerability impacts all AMD chips extending back to 2006. However, AMD has not listed Ryzen and Threadripper 1000 and 2000 and other previously released products as impacted by the vulnerability. We are following up for further details regarding the disparity. AMD processors dating back to 2006, reportedly numbering in the hundreds of millions of chips, suffer from amajor security flawthat allows attackers to infiltrate a system virtually undetectable....

As part of itsComputex2025 announcements, AMD has given gamers a sneak peek at the company’s major update for its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology. Dubbed FSR Redstone, the upcoming installment will bring many new features to match rival Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). FSR 4, the latest iteration of the technology, debuted a few months ago with the launch of theRadeonRX 9700 series, specifically theRadeon RX 9070andRadeon RX 9070 XT....

AMD is preparing a new Zen 5-based mobile CPU lineup to target the mainstream budget.ComputerBasereports that AMD’s Krackan/Krackan Point mobile APUs will arrive in early 2025 in laptops, starting at $799. Until now, AMD’s only Zen 5 mobile CPU — under theRyzen AI 300 series(Strix Point) umbrella, has targeted high-end laptop solutions. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, HX 370, and Ryzen AI 9 365 are all high-performance-focused parts that have left the budget and mainstream markets without a Zen 5 solution or a Copilot+ CPU solution from AMD....