Amd Zen News and Articles

AMD Ryzen CPUs are impacted by all of these serious vulnerabilities

A hot potato: All users with AMD Ryzen processors from the last few years should check and update their motherboard firmware ASAP, especially if they haven't done so since before 2023. AMD has published a detailed chart describing four severe security issues affecting server, desktop, workstation, HEDT, mobile, and embedded Zen CPUs. Recent BIOS updates have addressed most, but not all of the flaws.

Full story By Daniel Sims, February 15, 2024, 12:19 AM 19 comments

The Rise, Fall and Renaissance of AMD

FEATURE By Nick Evanson and Graham Singer, December 26, 2022, 6:09 AM TechSpot Tech Culture

AMD is one of the world's oldest CPU makers and the subject of polarizing debate among tech enthusiasts for nearly 50 years. Its story makes for a thrilling tale of twists and turns that we examine today from past to present.

Hardware

No, Intel wasn't granted a patent for AMD Zen architecture

More of a case of stealing AMD's homework

By Adrian Potoroaca, April 6, 2022, 5:26 PM 28 comments

Hardware

AMD 5nm 96-core 'Genoa' Zen 4 CPU arriving in 2022, 128-core 'Bergamo' lands early 2023

AMD expands its enterprise portfolio with two fourth-gen Epyc processors

By Cal Jeffrey, November 8, 2021, 6:37 PM 35 comments

Hardware

Ryzen 7000 and Radeon 7000 rumored to share late 2022 launch window

Will Zen 4 and RDNA 3 arrive simultaneously?

By Rob Thubron, June 8, 2021, 10:41 AM 21 comments

AMD Ryzen 5000 IPC Performance Tested: Everything at 4GHz

FEATURE By Steven Walton, November 16, 2020, 5:54 AM TechSpot Hardware

IPC performance is a good indicator of a CPU's architecture efficiency, so we're checking out how Zen 3 compares against Intel's 10th-gen Core and AMD's progress with Ryzen over the past three years.

Hardware Industry

AMD looks ahead to Zen 4 and RDNA 3

The company won't be taking its foot off the pedal

By Rob Thubron, November 11, 2020, 10:50 AM 16 comments

Hardware

Leaked AMD documents offer new Zen 3 details

Zen 3 will bring some important changes

By Eric Hamilton, September 13, 2020, 9:28 AM 22 comments

The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD

FEATURE By Nick Evanson and Graham Singer, June 29, 2020, 6:10 AM TechSpot Industry

AMD is one of the oldest designers of large scale microprocessors and has been the subject of polarizing debate among technology enthusiasts for nearly 50 years. Its story makes for a thrilling tale. We'll revisit the company's past, examine the twists and turns in the path to the present, and wonder at what lies ahead.

Hardware

AMD's CPU roadmap reveals Zen 3, Zen 4, and 5nm

Coming soon

By Rob Thubron, March 6, 2020, 5:20 AM 55 comments

Hardware Software

AMD Zen 3 microcode surfaces in Linux kernel

The Zen 3 hype train keeps rolling

By Eric Hamilton, January 19, 2020, 8:46 PM 13 comments

Industry Hardware

No Zen 2 for you: AMD will not extend its x86 licensing agreement with Chinese consortium

A result of the trade war, or something else?

By Rob Thubron, June 5, 2019, 5:20 AM 24 comments

Industry Hardware

AMD launches Zen 2 for the datacenter: world's first x86 CPU built on 7nm

Double the cores, higher IPC, more power savings

By Paul Taylor, November 6, 2018, 2:31 PM 27 comments

AMD Athlon 200GE Review: $55 Zen CPU

FEATURE By Steven Walton, September 18, 2018, 8:00 AM TechSpot Hardware

AMD's most affordable Zen based processor yet, the Athlon 200GE is just dual-core, but before your shrek louder than the coil whine of a cheap graphics card, consider the price, this is a $55 processor. Clocked at 3.2 GHz, there's 5MB of cache in total, and the integrated Radeon GPU packs just 3 compute units. The TDP rating has been set at just 35 watts.