Systems AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card
Systems DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown
Systems AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match An $899 CPU? In this economy?
Personal Tech AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part
Systems Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits
On-Prem AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes
Systems AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year
Systems AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall
Systems Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Systems AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure
Systems Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing
Systems Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter
Networks AI networking startup Upscale AI scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
HPC Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.
Security Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required
Public Sector Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue America first, for sales and access to foundries
Systems AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch
Systems AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched New chips same as the old chips
Systems AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths
Systems Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech
AI + ML Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs
The Future of the Datacenter HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026
Supercomputing Month HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show Arm and RISC-V would like a word
SC25 Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt
On-Prem AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market
Security AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way
Systems Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time
Systems 18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs
AI + ML Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks
AI + ML Stargate is nowhere near big enough to make OpenAI's tie-ups with AMD and Nvidia work Since revealing Stargate in January, Altman and friends have brought about 200 MW online - they'll need at least 16 GW to claim their red and green prize
Systems OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap 6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love
Systems AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software
AI + ML SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs Top AI chipmakers count on faster, denser, more efficient memory to boost training
Research Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected
Systems AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers
Off-Prem Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them
Public Sector Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU
Cloud Infrastructure Month AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN
Systems AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish
Security AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly
Systems Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2
Datacenter Networking Nexus Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack
Databases Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for
Systems Rack scale is on the rise, but it's not for everyone... yet Still buying B200s and MI300Xs? Don't feel bad, Nvidia and AMD's NVL72 and Helios rack systems aren't really for the enterprise anyway
European Supercomputing AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
European Supercomputing AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144 House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
European Supercomputing AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
Systems If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight
Systems The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture
Systems Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick
Systems China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon
AI Infrastructure Month AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700
AI Infrastructure Month AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster
AI Infrastructure Month AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best
AI Infrastructure Month Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules
AI Infrastructure Month Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off
AI + ML El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
HPC First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?
Systems AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP
Personal Tech Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?
AI + ML If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI
Networks Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches
Systems Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive
Patches Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least
Patches Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean
OSes Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change 'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date
Systems Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype
Personal Tech Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision It'll all end in tiers
Systems AI's rising tide lifts all chips as AMD Instinct, cloudy silicon vie for a slice of Nvidia's pie Analyst estimates show growing apetite for alternative infrastructure
Systems Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really? Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like
Systems AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Systems Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battle
Systems Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart
Systems Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks
HPC LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view
AI + ML AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?
Systems AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows Arm-powered PCs are still nowhere
Systems The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell? Tech for tech's sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle
Systems The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin Zen 5 3D V-cache is here at last, and priced at $479 – one for the gamers or multi-purpose desktop chip for all?
Systems Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027
Systems AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct
Systems A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here
Systems Top EU court overturns Intel's billion-dollar antitrust fine Conditional rebates settled, but $400M matter of naked restrictions remains
Systems It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla?
Systems China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees
Systems Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop Claims forthcoming chip catches up to Alder Lake and Xen 2
Security Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped
Systems Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut Just not on the same chip, of course
Systems AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025 Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper
AI + ML AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements
Systems TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4
AI + ML What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption
Systems AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire
Black Hat and DEF CON Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips
Energy Efficient Datacenters Are accelerators the cure to video's power problem or just an excuse to peddle GPUs?
