AMD teams with Eric Trump
AMD partnered with an Eric Trump-backed foundation to build humanoid robots.
AMDAMD, Alphabet Find Good Results Aren’t Good Enough for Investors
Investors are a bit numb to positive results as fears of an AI bubble return
AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots
AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-instinct-mi455x-aiming-for-the Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49032072 Points: 45 # Comments: 23
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, the Helios server rack that packs 72 of those chips into a single system, and the Venice […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first gigawatt begins in the first half of 2027. Anthropic is already using […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD Unveils New Products in Pursuit of $2 Trillion Market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced a raft of new products for data centers that it said will outperform those from rival Nvidia Corp., aiming to make gains in a booming market for artificial intelligence computing.
Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea is borrowed from large language […] This story continues at The Next Web
Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge
Server processors were meant to be the boring corner of the AI boom. The exotic money went to graphics accelerators, while the central processing units sitting beside them were treated as a solved problem, cheap, plentiful, and interchangeable. That assumption is coming apart in China. Intel and AMD have signed longer-term supply commitments with Chinese […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
'A well-balanced and genuinely impressive home and office mini PC': The Geekom A5 Pro with Ryzen 5 gets a big price cut
The diminutive desktop, with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD gets big price cut at Amazon.
AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.
AMD’s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD’s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965161 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ex-MBDA engineer builds $1,100, 40g AI micro-drone using AMD phased-array sonar for YC-backed startup Tornyol to eradicate mosquitoes, currently restricted to 3-minute flights
Former MBDA engineer Alex Toussaint creates an AI mosquito-hunting drone using sonar, though battery limits restrict current operations.
The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D chip is now available for $329
Reasonable specs for a reasonable price.
Bosgame’s P6 Ryzen 9 mini PC deal undercuts 8-core rivals as a powerful $520 desktop replacement
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (8-core/16-thread), 24GB LPDDR5X RAM, 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, dual Gigabit LAN, and triple 4K display support
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet with 64GB RAM is down to $2,100
Almost all gaming laptops have gone up in price over the past year. Curiously, the surprisingly fast Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop/tablet combo has not. It’s actually gotten quite a bit cheaper recently. Best Buy has the lowest price on the configuration that includes the AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 “Strix Halo” chipset, […]
AMD abandons HBM for inferior LPDDR5x as AI monster devours precious high-bandwidth memory
AMD is moving away from HBM to LPDDR5x for its SoCs as AI hyperscalers continue to snap up all available wafers of the former.
Lenovo's 16-inch ThinkPad E16 Gen 3 laptop for students and professionals gets a big July discount using this special code — I found the configurations that give you the best value for money
With an Intel or AMD processor, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, Lenovo's ThinkPad E16 Gen 3 laptop is an easy recommendation from me.
Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo
Article URL: https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/amd-ryzen-ai-halo-review.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861833 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs
On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market […] This story continues at The Next Web
France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software
A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that runs open-source models fast across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel silicon alike. Nvidia still rules AI hardware, but its walls keep thinning. ZML, a Paris startup backed by AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805624 Points: 30 # Comments: 30
Self-Driving Startup Turing Gets AMD Backing, Adopts AMD GPUs
Self-driving tech developer Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its list of backers and begun adopting Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s AI accelerators in its systems.
GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell
Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780417 Points: 132 # Comments: 38
This AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC has 128GB RAM, metal feet, and even a vegan leather handle — because why not?
MINIX's Ryzen AI mini PC stuffs 128GB RAM, 126 TOPS AI compute, and networking into a chassis built for LLMs.
AMD's Radeon GPUs may be the next victim of the RAM crisis — and it makes this gaming PC deal look even more of a bargain
Unsurprisingly, the RAM crisis has struck again, potentially forcing AMD to raise prices on Radeon GPUs.
Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator rack loaded with 43TB of LPDDR5x, future generations set to smash 7PB/s bandwidth
Qualcomm's upcoming rack-scale inference platform, Dragonfly, comes with impressive numbers as it chooses to skip HBM for its more cost-effective and power-efficient proprietary HBC offerings.
GMKtec EVO-T2 review: An impressive AI mini PC that goes some way to addressing the imbalance between the best Intel can offer over AMD
The GMKtec NucBox EVO-T2 Mini PC uses the latest Panther Lake Intel silicon to deliver a high-performance platform perfect for developers and creatives.
One of AMD's most powerful CPUs gets a 60% price cut — 192-core EPYC 9965 CPU costs less than $6000 new and I can't explain why it's so cheap
AMD's server-class Epyc 9965 CPU comes with a 192-core, 384-thread Zen 5-based configuration and can be had for less than half its original sub-$15,000 asking price.
Forget Ryzen AI! AMD launches its SLOWEST processor in years, because 'not all customers can afford a new PC' — 2019 Zen+ CPU will at least be compatible with Windows 11
AMD's latest move seems to be two steps backward for budget laptops in a bid to cater to price-sensitive consumers
Consider this your sign to finally start that new PC build project — MSI has two excellent motherboard deals in Amazon's Prime Day sale
One for AMD’s Ryzen platform, one for Intel — both with Wi-Fi built in and both significantly cheaper than usual.
A solution to RAM-aggedon? AMD buys startup to transform SSDs into cheap 'virtual RAM' to cut price, its third attempt at solving memory conundrum after RAMdisk and StoreMI
AMD's latest AI-centric acquisition could be a game-changer for its data center ambitions
AWS pipped AMD and Intel to the first CPU supporting PCIe 6.0, and you can now finally rent it by the hour (but don't expect any miracles)
AWS has launched Graviton5 with PCIe 6.0 support, although supporting hardware capable of exploiting it remains scarce.
OpenAI unveils first custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, with Broadcom — and its development was sped-up with OpenAI's own models
OpenAI and Broadcom this morning unveiled their first custom AI accelerator chip named "Jalapeño," positioning it is as a purpose-built processor for large language model (LLM) inference, rather than the more general GPUs offered by the likes of Nvidia or AMD. According to its creators, Jalapeño is designed to support workloads behind ChatGPT, Codex, the API and future agentic products, though notably, both OpenAI 's and Broadcom's news releases position it as a product that could be made availa
China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips
A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine called LineShine the world’s fastest […] This story continues at The Next Web
A server within a server: HP packs 81,920 CPU cores, up to 1.28PB RAM into one 42U rack using 80 multi-node motherboards — unannounced Venice is likely to be the fastest x86 CPU ever produced
HPE demonstrates Cray GX5000 system using AMD Venice processors, delivering 81,920 cores and 1.28PB memory capacity.
Following User Outcry, AMD Reinstates Memory Encryption In Consumer CPUs
Last week, AMD was found to have stripped memory encryption from its consumer CPUs without any warning or notice. Now, following a wave of backlash on social media, the chipmaker has now reinstated the protection, though it still hasn't explained why the safeguard was disabled in the first place. Ars Technica reports: Following the revelation, social media was deluged by comments from AMD consumers decrying the move. They noted that AMD's quiet removal of TSME after supporting it for so long see
Valve Will Finally Let You Build Your Own Steam Machine With SteamOS For Desktop
With the price of the new Steam Machine starting at $1,049, you might want to consider making your own Steam Machine instead. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve says that "starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want." SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week with a slew of updates, including "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." Alongside that improved compatibility, Valve is giving ga
Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
Valve is working with AMD to bring FSR 4 to the Steam Machine
The Steam Machine is a cool little console that's about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague Sean Hollister's in-depth review. But one area where it lags behind is with its earlier version of AMD FSR upscaler: It's just not as good as it should be. Yes, it can sharpen low-res graphics […]
AMD releases FSR 4.1 upscaling for older graphics cards
AMD is officially launching FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs today. The update means that computers with those older graphics cards, which use the RDNA 3 graphics architecture, will be able to see improvements like better image quality and smoother gameplay in their games. AMD had promised in May that it would be […]
AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-9000-cpus-through-a-bios-update-in-july-tsme-is-coming-back-after-valuable-community-feedback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612098 Points: 21 # Comments: 1
This tiny AMD PC just ran a massive 397B AI Model that required a server room full of GPUs a year ago
Longsys shows how far edge AI computing has come by running a mammoth 397-billion-parameter model on a customized AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-based PC with 128GB of RAM.
AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582320 Points: 71 # Comments: 22
Nvidia desperately wants to sell its latest Vera CPU to China after its market share 'effectively fallen to zero' but can it beat AMD, Intel, and Huawei?
Nvidia has begun pitching its Vera CPUs to clients in the Chinese mainland even as it contends with direct and indirect state pressure that has seen its GPU sales to China virtually collapse.
Apollo-Backed Rackspace Loan Jumps on AMD Data Center Deal
Rackspace Technology Inc., a cloud-computing services company backed by Apollo Global Management Inc., saw its $1.6 billion loan jump after it signed a data center deal with Advanced Micro Devices Inc., extending a rally in debt that had traded at deeply distressed levels just two months ago.
Users Cry Foul After AMD Stripped Memory Crypto From Its Consumer CPUs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to lower-end processors, including the consumer version of its Ryzen chip
Your Ryzen CPU used to encrypt your RAM. A firmware update silently turned that off.
AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its consumer Ryzen processors that protected users against physical attacks on their computer’s memory. The feature, Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, encrypts all data stored in RAM using a hardware-generated key that changes on every boot. When active, it renders cold boot attacks, DRAM interface snooping, and physical […] This story continues at The Next Web
Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.