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• AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 CPUs will arrive before September ends

  AMD will ship its next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors this quarter which means Ryzen 7000 will hit the streets by the end of September.

• New speculative execution attack Retbleed impacts Intel and AMD CPUs

  Unlike other speculative execution attacks like Spectre, Retbleed exploits return instructions rather than indirect jumps or calls.

• AMD makes steady gains on Intel in server chip market

  AMD continues to increase its share of both the overall x86 chip market and the server x86 market in particular, despite a large-scale general downturn in shipments.

• The three-way race for GPU dominance in the data centre

  Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are about to slug it out for a share of the growing graphics-processing-unit market that’s being fuelled by the needs of AI and ML.

• AMD shrugs off COVID chip shortage fears by focusing on premium PCs

  AMD reported record revenues for the first quarter of 2022, largely shrugging off concerns of chip shortages that have worried companies like Intel and Microsoft.

• AMD grabs DPU maker Pensando for a cool $1.9B

  AMD wants the DPU-based architecture and technology that Pensando is developing and that could be instrumental in smartNICs.

• AMD halts chip sales to Russia

  AMD is halting sales of its products to Russia in a move which seems to be the first explicit commitment from the chip industry in taking action against Russia.

• AMD claims business can meet demand in 2022

  AMD executives reported a record quarter and an even better outlook, along with confidence that the company can meet demand for its processors and GPUs.

• Inside AMD: The Phoenix of tech

  Five years ago, AMD was hanging on. Then two things happened: Dr. Lisa Su ascended to CEO and the vendor developed the Zen microarchitecture.

• AMD buys its way out of the PC chip crunch

  AMD has indicated that it's far better positioned for the fourth quarter of this year than Intel, after investing in securing manufacturing capacity.

• Intel, AMD and Nvidia agree that chip shortage isn’t ending anytime soon

  The leaders of the technology world believe it'll be almost a year (at the very least) before the market sees relief from the current supply crunch.

• Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger claims AMD’s time is ‘over’

  Intel is so confident in its upcoming Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids CPUs that its CEO just said AMD's time in the limelight will soon be over.

• AMD's chip supply will remain tight through 2021

  AMD’s CEO expects the vendor's supply of chips to be “tight” throughout the remainder of the year, but are expected to ease up in 2022.

• Google Cloud taps new AMD chips for fresh service

  ​Google Cloud is set to launch the first instance in its new family of Tau virtual machines, built on the third generation of AMD’s EPYC processors, released earlier this year.

• AMD admits to neglecting budget chips during the ongoing silicon shortage

  AMD CEO Lisa Su has admitted what we all knew was happening anyway, the vendor is prioritising supplies of higher-end CPUs​ and graphics cards​.