Over the past few months I’ve been hearing that shortages of Intel chips has been driving PC makers to consider alternatives. A representative from one Chinese PC company I spoke with at CES told me the company wouldn’t be able to get the Gemini Lake chips they need to bring their new product to market […]
AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen chips (for desktops) coming in mid-2019
AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen processors are coming this year. The company has announced that it’ll begin shipping its the new desktop chips in mid-2019. The numbers get a little confusing from there: we’re looking at the chip maker’s 3rd-Gen Ryzen chips with Zen 2 CPU cores. And AMD showed off an early model that features […]
ASRock DeskMini A300 is a tiny desktop with AMD Ryzen support
ASRock’s newest small form-factor desktop is a computer that measures just 6.1″ x 6.1″ x 3.1″ and which has an AMD AM4 socket that supports Ryzen chips with up to 65 watt TDPs. What’s particularly interesting about the new ASRock DeskMini A300 is that in order to fit that chip into a computer this small, […]
AMD introduces 2nd-gen Ryzen Mobile lineup (plus Athlon mobile chips)
Chip maker AMD is refreshing its line of laptop processors with two new chips aimed at entry-level Chromebooks, plus a whole bunch of 2nd-gen Ryzen Mobile chips designed for higher-performance laptops. The new Ryzen 3000 series mobile chips are based on a 12nm Zen+ architecture and feature Radeon Vega graphics and there are versions available […]
AMD launches 45W Ryzen chips for high-performance laptops
AMD has introduced its answer to Intel’s Coffee Lake-H line of processors for high-performance laptops including gaming notebooks and mobile workstations. The new new AMD Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 7 2800H are both 45 watt processors with 4 Zen CPU cores, 8 processor threads, Radeon Vega graphics, and support for DDR4-3200 memory. These are […]
Maybe we’ll see AMD Chromebooks this year… or next year?
It’s been almost two years since evidence first showed up that computer makers and software developers were testing Chrome OS on hardware featuring AMD processors. Since then… nobody’s actually released an AMD-powered Chromebook. There are plenty of Chromebooks with Intel processors, and a handful with ARM-based chips from Rockchip or MediaTek. We may even see models […]
AMD’s 32-core 2nd-gen Threadripper chip coming August 13th
AMD has revealed that it will start shipping 2nd-gen Ryzen Threadripper processors next week. First up is the company’s most powerful consumer desktop chip to date. It’s a 32-core, 64-thread processor called the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX that will sell for a hefty $1,799. But AMD has a few lower-cost (and lower-performance) chips set to […]
Sapphire unveils 5×5 motherboard with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000
Computer component maker Sapphire has introduced a new small form-factor motherboard with an AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor with Radeon Vega graphics, two SODIMM lots for memory and support for up to four 4K displays. It’s called the FS-FP5V and while it’s positioned as a board that can be used for digital signage, kiosks, point-of-sales, […]
Huawei MateBook D with Ryzen Mobile now available for $629 (or less)
After unveiling a 14 inch notebook with a compact design and an AMD Ryzen Mobile processor at Computex in May, Huawei is bringing the notebook to the United States. The Huawei MateBook D is now available from Walmart with a suggested retail price of $629 (although it currently seems to be on sale for $599). […]
Huawei MateBook D laptop with Ryzen Mobile coming soon
When Huawei introduced the MateBook D laptop last year, it was a 15.6 inch notebook with an Intel Core i5-7200U processor and NVIDIA 940MX graphics. This year the company is getting ready to launch a new MateBook D with a smaller display and with an AMD Ryzen Mobile processor and Radeon Vega graphics. Details were […]
AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen Threadripper: Up to 32 CPU cores
Intel unveiled an upcoming 28-core CPU this week, promising it’d be available in the fourth quarter of 2018. So naturally AMD just announced a 32-core processor that could hit the streets months earlier. It’s due out in the third quarter of 2018. The 2nd-gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper is a high-end processor based on the company’s […]
Honor MagicBook gets a Ryzen Mobile option
When Huawei launched the Honor MagicBook laptop last month, the company announce the 14 inch thin and light laptop would feature NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics, a choice of Intel Core i5-8250U or Core i7-8550U processors, and a starting price of about $800. But it looks like Huawei forgot to mention that an AMD Ryzen Mobile […]
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