AMD begins production ramp of 256-core EPYC Venice — first 2nm HPC chip claims 70% performance leap
… AMD also announced a follow-on processor called Verano and said it plans to eventually produce Venice at TSMC's Arizona campus as well. …
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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback'
… Following the discovery, Kilpatrick raised a bug report on AMD's GitHub repository, where Mario Limonciello, a senior principal software engineer at AMD, eventually responded: “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic." Without any comment from AMD, it appeared as … …
Microsoft Surface Reviews, Analysis and Buying Guides | Tom's Hardware
Microsoft Surface Microsoft is streamlining the Surface lineup, and the Surface Laptop Studio 2 reportedly won't get a successor. …
Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center
… This series of diaries from our team is intended to give you insights into our thoughts and feelings about covering a massive event like Computex 2026, documenting the trials and tribulations that naturally come with event coverage. …
Intel's Project Firefly creates sub-$600 laptops to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo — leverages China's smartphone manufacturing blueprint to produce affordable Wildcat Lake systems
… Intel held a Core Series 3 processor codenamed Wildcat Lake launch event in China today, and alongside the launch came the announcement of Project Firefly via ITHome . …
Intel's long-lost data center prototype 'Arctic Sound' Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company's cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E
… Eventually, Arctic Sound was cancelled as a commercial product because it was simply too expensive to produce. …
Asus enters the RAM market during the largest memory shortage in history, 48GB kit lands at $880 — brand's first DDR5 kit makes the RTX 5070 Ti look like a bargain
… Over the years, Asus has strategically partnered with several major memory manufacturers to offer Asus-branded memory products under both the ROG Republic of Gamers and TUF The Ultimate Force lineups. …
Microsoft debuts Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with new jade green color and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips — refreshed devices start at $1,499 with 16GB of RAM
Microsoft has quietly updated its consumer-oriented Surface lineup with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 chips. The Surface line, often announced with its own event, has been detailed in a blog post by corporate vice president for Surface Brett Ostrum. …
AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G APU breaks cover in early benchmarks — six-core Zen 5 chip goes head-to-head with the Ryzen 5 8600G for budget PC builders
… In any event, Zen 5's 16% IPC improvement over Zen 4 balances out the equation. …
Intel's one-two punch plan in desktop CPUs is taking shape — Z990 spotted, Nova Lake detailed, ‘Raptor Lake Next’ teased
… Bigger Zen 6 news is likely at the company’s Advancing AI event next month. …