This last week AMD announced the brand of its new processor family, Ryzen. The acknowledgement came mostly because when AMD registered the name—along with a bunch of other fake names—folks started to realize that it was the only choice that […]
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There was a pretty big announcement this month. Microsoft and Qualcomm just announced they are developing Snapdragon based laptops running Windows. What makes this interesting is that Windows hasn’t supported a platform other than x86 in its complete form since
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There is a lesson that seems to be hard learned in the technology market and that is that a technology company needs to be led by an experienced executive who also is a subject matter expert. Nowhere is this more
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This week AMD gave us an introduction to Zen as it slowly reveals more and more of this highly-anticipated PC and Server processor. I’ve been following this for some time and I know a number of the PC and Server
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There are three problems delaying the ramp of virtual reality. One is content—and that is slowly being sorted—two is hardware, including the need for complete solutions that include controllers, and third is cost. Currently it is estimated that to get
AMD Moves Aggressively to Drive Virtual Reality at an Amazing Computex Read More »
This week AMD had a huge event to showcase how its pulling out all the stops on virtual reality (VR), which is believed to not only be a game changer for gaming, but for education, video entertainment, and sales as
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There are three problems with chasing the most high-performance systems. 1) They tend to be wicked expensive—easily costing up to $5K. 2) They tend to stop being the fastest reasonably quickly given technology cycles nearly every 6 months. 3) They
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One of the best times of my life was covering PCs when Pat Gelsinger was in charge of innovation at Intel. He would have an annual competition for designers to create amazing things that few could afford but we all
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AMD’s story is an interesting one particularly as their new CEO Lisa Su did her first financial analyst briefing this week. You could call AMD’s basic goal over the last several decades to simply get out from under Intel’s shadow
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