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AMD expects 20% decline in gaming revenue from 'higher memory and component costs' in the second half of the year — CEO Lisa Su warns of further memory crunch
…First, AMD broadly splits up its business into enterprise , client and gaming, and embedded segments. Here, Hu is talking specifically about gaming revenue — GPUs and consoles — and AMD later noted that consumer…
AMD GPU owners take to Reddit to report fan problem with driver update
…GPUs Desktop Roadmap Enterprise Roadmap Rubin in-depth The Stout Owl: The ultimate Noctua G2 PC With Zero RPM enabled, the graphics card relies solely on its heatsink for passive cooling, provided…
Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO
…Paid Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users also regularly encountered message caps, peak-hour throttling, API rate limits, and strict time-based usage ceilings on Claude Code sessions, particularly during periods of…
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APU could arrive with 192GB of unified memory — leaked PassMark benchmarks suggest modest update over Strix Halo
…For instance, the existing Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 is meant for enterprise and business customers, while the standard Max+ 395 is aimed at high-performance consumers. The listing suggests that this…
AMD posts record first-quarter results, driven by skyrocketing data center CPU demand — company expects consumer and gaming revenue to decline in Q2 over rising memory and component costs
…AMD not only set its own record in enterprise hardware sales during the quarter, but it continued to outsell Intel, which recorded $5.1 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in…
AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs
Modern data center workloads are very diverse, and so are the requirements of data center operators for their hardware, which is why virtually all hyperscale cloud service providers nowadays have their own…
Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production
…The negotiations are further strained by fractures within Samsung's own workforce, with about 80% of the Super Enterprise Union's Samsung branch coming from the Device Solutions semiconductor division, per Digitimes…
Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor
…BitLocker protects millions of machines worldwide across home, enterprises, and governments, especially as it's enabled by default in Windows 11 . As far as we can tell, a drive can't be…