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EKWB launches waterblock for custom cooling system for delidded AM5 CPUs, including X3D CPUs. View the full article

We put Intel's Core i5-14400 through a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it fares against competing AMD Ryzen processors. View the full article

AMD announced its Ryzen Pro portfolio today as it extended the 'Hawk Point' 8040-series to commercial laptop and workstation users while simultaneously offering its Ryzen 8000 APU models for commercial desktop PCs. View the full article

The Tuxedo Sirius 16 Gen2 is an AMD Linux gaming laptop that comes with the Kubuntu-based Tuxedo OS, Ubuntu LTS, Kubuntu LTS, or Ubuntu Budgie LTS. View the full article

MSI has published new BIOS updates featuring AMD's latest AGESA 1.1.7.0 firmware update, incorporating "next-gen" CPU support for its upcoming Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs. View the full article

There’s no shortage of startups pushing technology that could one day prove pivotal in AI computing and memory infrastructure. Celestial AI, which recently secured $175 million in Series C funding, is looking to commercialize its Photonic Fabric technology which aims to redefine optical interconnects. Celestial AI's foundational technology is designed to disaggregate AI compute from memory to offer a “transformative leap in AI system performance that is ten years more advanced than existing technologies.” Lower energy overhead and latency The company has reportedly been in talks with several hyperscale customers and a major processor manufacturer, about integrating its technology. Though specific details remain under wraps, that manufacturer is quite likely to be AMD since AMD Ventures is one of Photonic Fabric's backers. As reported by The Next Platform, the core of Celestial AI's strategy lies in its chiplets, interposers, and optical interconnect technology. By combining DDR5 and HBM memory, the company aims to significantly reduce power consumption while maintaining high performance levels. The chiplets can be used for additional memory capacity or as interconnects between chips, offering speeds comparable to NVLink or Infinity Fabric. “The surge in demand for our Photonic Fabric is the product of having the right technology, the right team and the right customer engagement model”, said Dave Lazovsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Celestial AI. “We are experiencing broad customer adoption resulting from our full-stack technology offerings, providing electrical-optical-electrical links that deliver data at the bandwidth, latency, bit error rate (BER) and power required, compatible with the logical protocols of our customer’s AI accelerators and GPUs. Deep strategic collaborations with hyperscale data center customers focused on optimizing system-level Accelerated Computing architectures are a prerequisite for these solutions. We’re excited to be working with the giants of our industry to propel commercialization of the Photonic Fabric.” While Celestial AI faces challenges in timing and competition from other startups in the silicon photonics space, the potential impact of its technology on the AI processing landscape makes it a promising contender. As the industry moves towards co-packaged optics and silicon photonic interposers, Celestial AI's Photonic Fabric could play a key role in shaping the future of AI computing. More from TechRadar Pro GPU prices could spike again as rumors indicate AMD wants to prioritize AINvidia's fastest AI chip ever could cost a rather reasonable $40,000Nvidia plans to compete in $30 billion custom chip market View the full article

AMD's Instinct MI350 with revamped memory configuration might come in the second half of 2024, according to analyst firm TrendForce. View the full article

Release notes for AMD's chipset driver V6.03.19.217 released by Asus contain mentions of Ryzen 9000 platform management framework. View the full article

AMD motherboard manufacturers have started releasing BIOS updates with the AGESA 1.2.0.b update, which protects against the LogoFAIL exploit that hijacks the UEFI boot image. View the full article

AMD and BlackBerry are collaborating on new real-time platforms powered by the AMD Kria K26 SOM and BlackBerry QNX that will "revolutionize next-generation robotics systems." View the full article

New figures have claimed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger saw a significant increase in his earnings in 2023, but it was still only just over half of what Lisa Su, CEO of rival company AMD, made. According to MarketWatch, Gelsinger's total compensation in 2023 was $16.86 million, a 45% increase from his 2022 earnings of $11.61 million, as revealed in Intel's 2024 proxy statement. In contrast, Su's total compensation for 2023 was $30.35 million, barely above her 2022 compensation of $30.22 million. The increase in Gelsinger's pay came despite an 18% drop in his salary to $1.07 million. However, the value of his stock awards increased to $12.43 million, and his non-equity incentive plan compensation jumped to $2.89 million. On the other hand, Su's salary was $1.2 million, and she received $21.85 million in stock awards and $5.84 million in options. What about Nvidia's CEO? Intel's stock soared 90.1% in 2023, while AMD's stock shot up 127.6%. However, as MarketWatch points out, since Gelsinger became CEO, Intel's stock has tumbled 28.5%, while AMD shares have charged up 92.5%. Interestingly, Gelsinger's 2023 compensation was significantly lower than his 2021 total compensation of $178.59 million, which included "new-hire equity awards of a significant magnitude" of $140.43 million. This was done to ensure Intel could hire "the best leader possible." Meanwhile, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's total compensation for the fiscal year that ended in January 2023 was $21.36 million, down from $23.74 million the previous year. With Nvidia's stock skyrocketing by 238.9% in 2023, it will be interesting to see his compensation for the latest fiscal year. As Tom's Hardware points out, "Impressive stock gains have already propelled the leader of the green team into becoming the world's 21st richest person." More from TechRadar Pro First reviews of AMD's fastest ever processor reveal a frightening prospectAMD CEO offers to help AI Startup that uses Radeon 7900 XTX GPUsIntel ushers in the enterprise AI PC era View the full article

Google revealed its first custom Arm-based CPUs for data centers at its Google Cloud Next 24 event. The new Google Axion processors are intended for general-purpose workloads such as web and app servers, containerized microservices, open-source databases, and so on. The company’s investment in custom silicon dates back to 2015 when the tech behemoth launched its first Tensor Processing Units (TPU). Google has also developed its own Video Coding Unit (VCU) and Tensor chips for mobile devices. A significant milestone Google's main rivals for cloud services, Amazon and Microsoft, have their own CPUs based on Arm technology, but Amin Vahdat, Google's vice president of machine learning, systems and cloud AI boasted, "Axion processors combine Google’s silicon expertise with Arm’s highest performing CPU cores to deliver instances with up to 30% better performance than the fastest general-purpose Arm-based instances available in the cloud today." Axion CPUs will also have "up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy-efficiency than comparable current-generation x86-based instances," Vahdat added. Built using the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU and on the standard Armv9 architecture and instruction set, the new processors are underpinned by Titanium, a system of custom silicon microcontrollers and tiered scale-out offloads designed to optimize performance for customer workloads. "Google’s announcement of the new Axion CPU marks a significant milestone in delivering custom silicon that is optimized for Google’s infrastructure, and built on our high-performance Arm Neoverse V2 platform," Arm CEO Rene Haas said. "Decades of ecosystem investment, combined with Google’s ongoing innovation and open-source software contributions ensure the best experience for the workloads that matter most to customers running on Arm everywhere." The contributions to the Arm ecosystem that Haas mentioned include open-sourcing Android, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and the Go language, and should pave the way for Axion's application compatibility and interoperability. Google says customers will be able to seamlessly deploy Arm workloads on Google Cloud with limited code rewrites, accessing an ecosystem of cloud customers and software developers leveraging Arm-native software. The new Axion processors will be available to Google Cloud customers later this year. Virtual machines based on the CPUs will be available in preview in the coming months. More from TechRadar Pro Google wants to bring AI-powered security to businesses everywhereGoogle is giving your security teams a major Gemini AI boostGoogle Vids is Workspace's new video creation app for your workplace View the full article

Some of AMD's forthcoming Zen 5 or even Zen 6 processors may reside on the AM5+ socket. View the full article

Amidst push from Tiny Corp and the rest of the community, AMD is open-sourcing more of its GPU documentation and firmware in hopes of making its hardware truly-competitive with Nvidia in the AI space, and potentially more. View the full article

AMD has published performance slides of its Ryzen 7 7840U dominating Intel’s latest Core Ultra 7 155H processor in a plethora of large language model benchmarks. View the full article

Chinese motherboard vendor JGINYUE evaluates the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors and compares them to the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 7500F. View the full article

AMD's first RDNA 4-powered graphics processor support added to ROCm platform. View the full article

Earlier this week it was revealed that Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger had earned a big rise in 2023. However, the extra millions mean Gelsinger is still only receiving approximately half the total compensation AMD CEO Lisa Su receives. We are still awaiting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's 2023 total compensation figures. View the full article

Arm China continues to silently strengthen its product stack, now has an AI developers board and open-source drivers for its NPU design. View the full article

AMD believes in UCIe and chiplet ecosystem, but remains tight-lipped whether it plans to make UCIe-compatible chiplets. View the full article

The infamous Rowhammer DRAM attack can now be pulled off on some AMD CPUs as well, academic researchers from ETH Zurich have proved. As reported by BleepingComputer, the researchers dubbed the attack ZenHammer, after cracking the complex, non-linear DRAM addressing functions in AMD platforms. For the uninitiated, the Rowhammer DRAM attack revolves around changing data in Dynamic Random Access-Memory (DRAM), by repeatedly “hammering”, or accessing, specific rows of memory cells. Memory cells keep information as electric charges. These charges determine the value of the bits, which can either be a 0, or a 1. As the density of the memory cells in today’s chips is fairly big, “hammering” can alter the state in adjacent rows, or “flip” the bit. By flipping specific bits, the attackers can pull cryptographic keys, or other sensitive data, BleepingComputer explained. Purely theoretical? This means that AMD has joined Intel and ARM CPUs who were already known to be vulnerable to hammering attacks. The researchers tested their theory on different platforms. For AMD Zen 2, they were successful 70% of the time. For AMD Zen 3, 60%. For AMD Zen 4, however, they were only successful 10% of the time, suggesting that “the changes in DDR5 such as improved Rowhammer mitigations, on-die error correction code (ECC), and a higher refresh rate (32 ms) make it harder to trigger bit flips." While usually academic research is purely theoretical, the researchers said this attack could be pulled off in the real world, too. They simulated successful attacks targeting the system’s security, and manipulating page table entries for unauthorized memory access. Those fearing ZenHammer, it’s important to stress that these types of attacks are quite difficult to pull off. What’s more, there are patches and mitigations. Earlier this week, AMD released a security advisory with mitigation options. More from TechRadar Pro Your DDR4 memory could be facing the return of some serious assaultsHere's a list of the best firewalls around todayThese are the best endpoint security tools right now View the full article

Tiny Corp appears to have decided whether or not to follow its original plan of using AMD GPUs, or switch to Nvidia GPUs to power its Tiny Box server. The muddled answer is that it will make both. View the full article

It has been discovered that AMD was able to shrink Sony's custom PS5 Zen 2 CPU by 35% compared to normal Ryzen CPUs by chopping off parts of the CPU that aren't needed for gaming. View the full article

Biostar has revealed the A620MH Aurora motherboard that features AMD's A620A chipset. View the full article

The robotics field is constantly evolving, and with AMD and Canonical’s collaboration, the trajectory towards a more adaptable and efficient robotics framework is shaping up. Last year, AMD introduced the Kria™ KR260 Robotics Kit. The board embodies the spirit of seamless integration, ensuring developers face fewer barriers when developing robotics applications by getting Ubuntu and ROS 2 out of the box. Additionally, the board offers a wide variety of accelerated applications for developers to build customised pipelines in purely software environments. Now, we have made further progress with AMD by enabling Ubuntu Core on the KR260 and we are excited to showcase the live demo at ROSCon 2023! ... View the full article