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    Radeon 6800 for $360 (another $20 off with code)

    XFX SPEEDSTER SWFT319 AMD Radeon RX 6800 CORE Gaming Graphics Card for $360 in NewEgg https://www.newegg.com/xfx-radeon-rx-6800-rx-68xlaqfde/p/N82E16814150886 Via hardwaretimes https://www.hardwaretimes.com/amd-radeon-rx-7900-xt-drops-below-700-210-off-rx-6800-at-369-310-off/
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    AMD MI300 is the fastest ramping product in its history

    Lisa Su: Data Center GPU Sales To Hit $4B, Teases Future Chips With AMD looking to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space, Su said expanded customer engagements with the company’s Instinct MI300 accelerator chips prompted it to upgrade its 2024 data center GPU revenue forecast...
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    Pat Gelsinger — Core Ultra is Hot

    Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem, and it's hurting Core Ultra sales Customers are hot for Intel's Core Ultra products THE BIG PICTURE: Customers are clamoring for Intel's Core Ultra CPUs, but the chipmaker is facing a bottleneck in wafer-level assembly at the back end. It's a...
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    Radeon 7700xt for $380

    The official MSRP for the 7700 XT is likely a thing of the past, considering that Radeon RX 6000 availability is dwindling by the day, and both AMD and NVIDIA don’t have much in the pipeline until the next-gen drops. Currently, there are four models priced either at or below $399.99, which is...
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    Musk suggests 3 months freeze for new free-tier users

    Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting Musk later added that new accounts would be able to post after three months of creation without paying a fee. As is the case with a lot of announcements related to the social platform, there are no details at the moment about when this...
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    Asus RoG Ally with Z1 non-extreme for $300

    This is not an April Fool's joke https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-ally-with-ryzen-z1-apu-drops-to-299
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    TSMC's 3nm Business to Surge in 2024 (thanks to Apple, Intel, AMD but not Nvidia)

    Nvidia is notably missing from this list of big clients. The Taiwan Economic Daily is reporting on TSMC's surging 3nm business At projected 20% of revenues, it would be just behind 5nm business. As Wccftech notes, TSMC's biggest customers are all prepping next-gen hardware using TSMC 3nm in...
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    AVX-512 CPUs are being used for cryptomining

    consumers should be aware of a new problem and also look forward to how AMD wants to tackle this issue with the Zen5 architecture, expected to support AVX512 instructions as well. Intel CPUs should not be affected, as the company has abandoned AVX512 support with Alder Lake. While GPU mining...
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    AMD CTO claims to have completed AI enablement of entire portfolio and 2024 is the deployment year

    Tbh, I couldn't make head or tails out of this statement Hope someone else on the forum here can clarify It appears that AMD may be exploring using AI-algorithms for their upscaling as well, as hinted by Mark Papermaster (AMD CTO): As per Papermaster’s remarks, there’s a possibility that the...
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    Intel Foundry aims for manufacturing independence

    Hardwareluxx report in detail about the strategy for the new " Intel Foundry " - Intel's manufacturing branch, which is set to grow big and also be spun off as a separate company this year. What is particularly interesting here are those statements that suggest real semiconductor independence...
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    Nvidia would like to do a premium gaming handheld

    Why should AMD have all the fun ~MLID sources
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    Nvidia acknowledges Huawei as top competitor in SEC filing

    Nvidia identified Huawei as a top competitor in several categories, including artificial intelligence chips, for the first time in a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission late Wednesday. The Santa Clara, California-based company said that China's Huawei competes in supplying chips...
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    Computex 2024 — opening keynote by AMD CEO Lisa Su

    Su's speech is set for the morning of June 3, 2024, shortly before the formal start of the show. This upcoming keynote will be Lisa Su's third Computex keynote after her speeches at Computex 2019 and Computex 2022. In both cases she also announced upcoming AMD products. In 2019, she showcased...
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    How one unexpected game changed the Steam Deck forever

    According to an interview with GamingOnLinux in 2018, Rebohle “always had an interest in graphics programming,” but mostly tinkered with hobby projects that, in Rebohle’s own words, “never really evolved into anything useful.” DXVK started due to some frustrations with the reality of gaming on...
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    You can now buy the Radeon 7900 GRE

    5% faster than the 7800XT & 10% costlier 4070 ti/4070 super raster performance at 4070 price the 4830/5830 of this era https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2024/02/18/amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre-coming-to-us-with-big-price-cut/?sh=3f04d80b3b98
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    Refreshed GPD Win Max 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 8840U sacrifices low-TDP efficiency for impressive performance bump

    The GPD Win Max 2 gaming handheld sacrifices efficiency in the name of performance in a recent in-depth test, achieving marginally less battery life than its predecessor but performing better in games and synthetic benchmarks, largely due to improved high-speed RAM compatibility...
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    Nvidia surpasses Intel in annual revenue, for the first time

    nVidia made the big leap with its 2023 annual results and dethroned Intel as the clear leader of the three big chip developers in the PC sector for ages. Of course, this is partly based on a period of weakness on Intel's part, as nVidia is currently not (yet) close to Intel's sales records from...
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    Pat Gelsinger — Intel Foundry aims to build chips for all (including AMD's Lisa Su)

    Wasn't he the same one who declared that AMD is firmly in their rear view mirror 🤔 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: I hope to build chips for Lisa Su and AMD there are Intel products and Intel foundry, There's a clean line between those, and as I said on the last earnings call, we'll have a setup...
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    Navi 22 GPU below MSRP in China upsets AMD

    China’s special graphics card RX 6750 GRE is too cheap! AMD takes action: fines, suspension of goods Kuai Technology reported on February 21 that AMD released the RX 6750 GRE 10/12GB graphics card specifically for the Chinese mainland market in October last year. The starting prices were 2,219...
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    Databricks CEO predicts a major drop in AI server chip prices

    Unfortunately paywalled This person is/was very big on AI but now predicts a drop in chip prices https://x.com/theinformation/status/1757577912557903910?s=20
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    Microsoft could join the handheld party — with the next generation of consoles

    Instead of a series S next, we could have a handheld gaming device (like Switch/Deck)!!! https://x.com/IdleSloth84_/status/1754828376697721318?s=20 It was rumoured that the hardware behind steam deck was originally meant to be a handheld for Microsoft but MS developed cold feet & AMD had to go...
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    [RUMOUR] NVIDIA Turns to Intel to ameliorate AI Chip supply bottlenecks

    As per the UDN report, NVIDIA will add Intel as a provider of advanced packaging services to help ease the constraints. Intel is expected to start supplying NVIDIA with a monthly advanced packaging capacity of about 5,000 units in Q2 at the earliest. While TSMC will remain NVIDIA's primary...
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    Subscription Growth Has Flattened claims games industry analyst

    On January 17th, Mat Piscatella — Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) and Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games — claimed that: Subscription growth has flattened, and sub services on console and PC platforms accounts for only 10% of total video game content...
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    Ayaneo unveils the Next Lite, a budget-oriented handheld that comes pre-installed with SteamOS

    Is this the budget handheld you’ve been waiting for? The big difference between this handheld, and every other one that Ayaneo has released before is the inclusion of SteamOS. This means that you won’t have to mess around in Windows to get things running, or have to configure everything with...
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    EEC entries spotted for Raedon 7600 XT

    AMD budget GPU listed with twice the memory of RX 7600 and RTX 4060 — RX 7600 XT with 16GB GDDR6 AMD's rumored RX 7600 XT has been spotted on the Eurasian Economic Union customs database (or EEC for short) by hardware leaker Harukaze5719. RX 7600 XT could carry 16GB of VRAM like the RTX 4060 Ti...
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    New codenames unearthed for AMD RDNA 3 GPUs

    What is in a name 🤔 AMD might be switching from fish codenames to crystalline rocks, as a shipping label, disclosed by popular hardware leaker Harukaze5179, reveals. The shipping manifesto suggests that AMD uses a new "Cuarzo" codename for its existing Navi 3X GPUs. This label was reportedly...
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    RDNA 5 speculation

    Top RDNA 5 skus to have 135/180 WGPs. AMD targetting release by 2025 end ~RedGamingTech
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    Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel

    Pat Gelsinger: Nvidia Got 'Extraordinarily Lucky' in Dominating the AI Market If it hadn't been for that meddling company, Intel would be rich by now! Things would be completely different if only Intel hadn't cancelled the Larrabee GPU...
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    Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake Linux benchmarks

    Phoronix has done intial benchmarking of CPU only performance of Intel's new mobile APU & compared vs AMD's existing zen 4 APU Big win for Intel: day-0 & day-1 availability unlike AMD that takes weeks or months to deliver Intel also won PHP scripting Win for AMD: Almost everything else Those...
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    New Avatar PC Game Has a Hidden 'Unobtainium' Graphics Setting Targeting Future GPUs

    Anyone without an RTX 4090 or Radeon 7900 XTX should not even attempt it. According to a Redditor with an RTX 4090, this mode consumes 18.5GB of VRAM at 4K and runs at 30fps using DLAA and no frame generation. In the same thread, another RTX 4090 owner said they're getting about 50fps at 4K...
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    AMD patent reveals plans for distributed geometry processing

    h/t RedGamingTech It is here: multi-GCD chip. The holy grail of GPU https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2023/0376318.html#google_vignette DISTRIBUTED GEOMETRY In one implementation, chiplets (labelled) 320 A to 320 N are coupled to (a single) index buffer (labelled) 360 stored in memory...
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    RDNA — Bulldozer or Zen ?

    What the future holds for RDNA If we take stock of what AMD has achieved with RDNA in four years, and appraise the overall success of the changes, the end result will fall somewhere between Bulldozer and Zen. The former was initially a near-catastrophic disaster for the company but redeemed...
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    [Rumour] AMD eyes Samsung 4nm for zen 5c chips

    The c-cores are normally used for server products, but AMD has recently started using them in low power consumer products such as phoenix 2 (2 zen4 + 4 zen4c) It is speculated that, Sonoma Valley, a successor to AMD Mendocino (a very low power APU) could utilize zen 5c that is fabricated on...
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    More than 5 years since launch, the Epic Game Store has still not turned profitable

    How do they plan to make money 🤔 Tim Sweeney’s Epic Games Store Is Still Losing Money After Five Years new testimony has revealed that the Epic Games Store is still not profitable five years after its original launch in 2018. That’s straight from Epic Games Store head Steve Allison on the...
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    AMD ties up with Qualcomm, Samsung for FSR

    A win for FSR in mobile/handheld gaming even as the DLSS threat in this space heats up. https://wccftech.com/amd-fsr-technology-reportedly-coming-to-next-gen-samsung-qualcomm-smartphones/ The details come from @Tech_Reve who states that AMD, Samsung & Qualcomm have decided to jointly work on...
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    RISC-V sets sight on GPUs — all your cores belong to us

    “If you look at the ecosystem for the GPU, the toolchain is controlled by NVIDIA,” says Fan. “Other competitors, including AMD, have tried to break the monopoly but failed. It’s almost impossible to be compatible with a continuously updated NVIDIA ecosystem by extending RISC-V’s standard...
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    AMD Acquires AI Software Company Nod.ai

    AMD announced today that it has agreed to acquire open-source AI software company Nod.ai to improve its open source AI capabilities. Nod.ai, founded in 2013, has developed a software ecosystem of developer tools, libraries, and models that speed the deployment of AI solutions for AMD's silicon...
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    Microsoft may reveal custom-designed AI chip, to compete with Nvidia's GPUs, in Ignite in November

    Microsoft to Debut AI Chip Next Month That Could Cut Nvidia GPU Costs Microsoft next month plans to unveil the company’s first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developers’ conference, according to a person with direct knowledge. The move, a culmination of years of work...
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    PyTorch is the bridge across CUDA moat for AMD & other hardware vendors

    The PyTorch Drawbridge In the HPC sector, CUDA-enabled applications rule the GPU-accelerated world. Porting codes can often realize a speed-up of 5-6x when using a GPU and CUDA. (Note: Not all codes can achieve this speed up, and some may not be able to use the GPU hardware.) However, in GenAI...
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    [Wccftech] Nvidia to unleash 6400 XT competitor next year based on cut down RTX 3050

    (I couldn't see any source links for this story) NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB GPUs In 2024, Aiming Low-End Segment With Cut-Down Specs NVIDIA is preparing a new GeForce RTX 3050 model which will reutilize the Ampere GPU architecture & get 6 GB of VRAM. the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050...
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