AMD’s Zen 3 & Zen 2 CPUs Now Vulnerable To “Zenhammer”, Prompting Memory Leakage
AMD's Zen platform is reportedly vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks, as revealed in new research by ETH Zurich, affecting the usability of DRAM.
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TSMC 3nm To Dominate Apple, Intel & AMD Products, Leading To Significant Revenue Increase
TSMC's 3nm supply seems to be reserved by the three big tech firms, as Apple, Intel, and AMD manage to grasp a hefty portion of the production.
Man tries to smuggle seven-year-old AMD graphics cards through Chinese airport customs—all 44 of them
With the US ramping up bans on sending high-performance PC parts to China—and China now returning the favour—you'd think there would be a degree of interest in smuggling high-end PC parts into the country. This is not that. This is the case of a smuggler trying to move 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards right under everyone's noses.
What is VSync, and why do you need it?
If you’ve been playing PC games for a number of years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘VSync’ tossed around once or twice. Maybe you’ve also heard of G-Sync and FreeSync. For those unaware, VSync is actually short for ‘vertical synchronization’. This is a display feature that is designed to keep your gaming screen running in sync with your computer’s GPU. VSync isn’t just important for PC gaming, but it’s one of the most important criteria that goes into a good gaming display.
AMD Prepping Ryzen 5000XT CPU Refresh For AM4 Budget Platforms, Faster Clocks On Zen 3
AMD is planning to refresh its Ryzen 5000XT CPUs based on the huge popularity of the AM4 platform with faster Zen 3 chips.
Elon Musk claims Tesla could build a silicon foundry and make its own chips, but says 'I sure hope we don’t have to'
Legendary game developer John Carmack recently stated on Twitter that competing against TSMC head on was pretty much impossible. But he then asked his followers how less impossible it would be for a big tech company to make its own bespoke chips, rather than competing against the general purpose companies. Cue one small reply from a certain Elon Musk: «Tesla could do it, but I sure hope we don’t have to.»
Microsoft's new patent promises more efficient ray tracing for the Xbox and that could be a real boon for AMD's graphics cards too
Microsoft's research division has been hard at work trying to make ray tracing a more accessible feature for games of the future. A new patent from one of the team's senior architects describes how the memory and cache load for bounding volume hierarchies (BVH)— structures used to speed up ray tracing—can be reduced by using a similar approach to texture Level of Detail (LOD) application.
The Chinese government is phasing out Intel and AMD CPUs and Microsoft's Windows OS because they don't fit its new 'safe and reliable' guidelines
The ongoing and escalating tech war between the world's largest economies shows little sign of easing. Whether it's the banning of certain AI chips or restrictions on chip making equipment, China and the US really don't want the other side to have access to its best toys.