AMD Ryzen 7 8700F shows up on Amazon for pre-order
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Launching on May 14 at $299.99

Amazon has briefly jumped the gun on AMD's Ryzen 7 8700F APU, which should launch alongside the Ryzen 5 8400F on May 14th, listing it for pre-order at $299.99.

Chip wizard Jim Keller conjures up Grayskull magic
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Moving from Zen to something more diabolical

Jim Keller, the tech sorcerer behind AMD's Zen, has pulled another rabbit out of his hat with Tenstorrent's Grayskull.

Companies have not got the hang of remote work
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Remote workers think their company culture is toxic

Telecoms company Zen Internet has discovered that one in five remote workers are unhappy about their workplace culture despite their company having had several years to adapt to a new hybrid working setup.

Samsung shows off 12nm DDR5 DRAM
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022 12:07

Samsung shows off 12nm DDR5 DRAM


Works with AMD's Zen

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first 12nm DDR5 DRAM chips.

AMD's Zen CPU's will need to be slowed
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Friday, 12 August 2022 12:43

AMD's Zen CPU's will need to be slowed


Medium-severity flaw means you will have to listen to the sound of one hand clapping for a while 

 AMD’s Zen CPUs are vulnerable to a medium-severity flaw which means AMD will have to turn off SMT technology which will make the chips pretty much as bad as Intel's.

Keller furious after K12 Project cancelled
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'Stupidly Cancelled'

Zen One, Two, and three chip architect, Jim Keller told a conference that his K12 ARM CPU project was 'Stupidly Cancelled' after he left AMD.

AMD updates its Zen CPU roadmap
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Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:48

AMD updates its Zen CPU roadmap


Zen 4 will have a V-Cache version and Zen 5 comes in 2024

At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD has updated its CPU roadmap, giving us a bit more official details about its future, confirming that Zen 5 will be coming in 2024, and confirming more details on what to expect from the Zen 4 architecture-based lineup.

Latest consoles could be tiggered by poor internet
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It could be only one hand clapping says Zen

New research from Zen Internet has found that internet issues could ruin the party for gamers as the consoles rely on big software updates.

Jim Keller did his Intel job, moves out
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Four leaders continue his work

A lot of people were surprised to learn that Jim Keller decided to leave Intel for personal reasons. We were less surprised than the rest of his colleagues, just based on Jim’s track record as we believe that Keller went and did what he was hired to do, and left. 

DFI puts Ryzen Embedded R1000 Zen CPU on GHF51 board
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84x55mm motherboard with Zen CPU and Vega GPU

DFI has managed to squeeze in AMD's Ryzen Embedded R1000 series processor with Zen CPU and Vega GPU on a Raspberry Pi-sized motherboard, the DFI GHF51.