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AMD Director Travis Kirsch confirmed the rationale for relaunching the first X3D chip and explained why the company no longer offers many Ryzen 3 SKUs.

You can get a surprisingly powerful processor on the cheap. We've tested several cheap budget CPUs to help you find the right one for your needs and budget.

After years with the Cezanne-based 5500, AMD has finally updated its $100 CPU to the 5500F in the Vermeer family, adding a 200 MHz boost in clock speed and a PCIe 4.0 upgrade.

AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.

A mysterious AMD chip points to a possible Steam Deck successor.

Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.

Premium AGI CPU delivers a 20% average per-chip performance lead

A federal jury sides with Arm on select issues, rules in favor of Qualcomm in other cases. The legal battle set to continue.

At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores.

Intel set to discontinue SGX after Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' and focus on expanding TDX capabilities to meet emerging security requirements of cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and agentic AI.

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