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AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors

AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include  AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. AMD addresses security on multiple levels for the new Ryzen Pro 5000 series   The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from … Read more

If you like Zen2, you’ll love Zen3

(Source:  AMD) AMD created an extraordinarily good design with the Zen architecture in April 2017. You can measure that by the steady generation-to-generation improvements the company has made with Zen’s various derivatives. The latest iteration is the new Ryzens. AMD predicts a 19% improvement in instructions-per-clock (IPC) for the Zen 3 over last year’s Zen 2 design version. This improvement … Read more

AMD Q2 2020 results

AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments and up 349% year-to-year. “We delivered strong second-quarter results, led by record notebook and server processor sales as Ryzen and … Read more

AMD Ryzen 4000 Series DT APUs with bigger GPUs

AMD has introduced its 7 nm Ryzen 4000 and 3000 Series desktop APUs with Radeon graphics and says they are designed for OEMs and pre-built PCs for consumer and commercial markets. The company has introduced 18 models segmented by regular and Pro, and with each three Athlon versions. The APU starts with the 35 w Athlon 3050E which has 3 … Read more

The road to Sony’s PS5

An ultra-high-speed SSD, with an integrated custom I/O system, a custom AMD GPU with ray tracing, and a highly immersive 3D audio processor. Mark Cerny, the lead system architect for the upcoming PS5, gave a virtual presentation called The Road to PS5 and revealed the main features of Sony’s future console. The new console will have three major features: a … Read more

AMD Q4 2019 results: revenues, margins

AMD turned 50 in May 2019   Despite a great quarter, AMD’s stock was down about 2.6% after the company reported its Q4’19 which beats Wall Street estimates. The problem was the company’s guidance for Q1’20 was slightly below what Wall Street anticipated. The company announced revenue for Q4’19 of $2.13 billion, operating income of $348 million, net income of … Read more