AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen processors for desktop computers are up for pre-order starting today and they’ll be available starting April 19th. The new chips come in 6-core and 8-core variants, use have TDPs between 65 watts and 105 watts and sell for between $199 and $329. The new chips include a number of updates over the […]
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AMD’s 2nd-gen “Threadripper” chips coming this year (leaks)
This week we got our first look at AMD’s upcoming 2nd-gen Ryzen chip lineup for mainstream desktops thanks to a set of leaked slides posted by El Chapuzas Informático. Now the site has posted a few more slides that give us an idea of what AMD has planned for high-performance desktops, among other things. Last […]
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AMD Ryzen 2000 series desktop chip lineup leaked
AMD announced in January that its 2nd-gen Ryzen chips for desktops were set to launch in April. But thanks to leaked slides posted to El Chapuzas Informático, we already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the upcoming AMD Ryzen 2000 series of desktop processors. AMD already introduced the Ryzen 3 2200G […]
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Smach Z handheld gaming PC pre-orders open March 15th for $629 and up
The Smach Z is a handheld gaming PC that’s been under development for years. But the specs were recently finalized and the Smach team is showing off a (non-working) prototype at Embedded World this week. Now the company has announced that it’ll begin taking pre-orders for the Smach Z on March 15th, offering a 10 […]
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Lenovo ThinkPad E485 with AMD Ryzen leaked, coming in April (ThinkPad E585 too)
AMD’s first Ryzen Mobile processors launched in late 2017, but so far we’ve only seen a handful of laptops powered by the chips. More could be on the way soon though. A leaked product roadmap for Lenovo’s ThinkPad line of business laptops suggests that at least two Ryzen-powered notebooks are coming in April. The Lenovo […]
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Smach Z handheld gaming PC specs finalized: Ryzen V1605B, up to 8GB RAM
The Smach Z is a handheld gaming PC that’s been under development in one way or another since the developer released the first rendered images of a so-called “SteamBoy” handheld game system in 2014. Now Smach CEO Daniel Fernandez is getting ready to bring the Smach Z to market, hopefully in 2018. This week we […]
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Leak: AMD V1000 “Great Horned Owl” to bring Ryzen to embedded systems
AMD is having something of a renaissance at the moment, with the company’s new Zen CPU architecture offering a huge performance bump over its predecessor and AMD’s Vega graphics technology giving the chip maker an edge over Intel in the integrated graphics space. So far AMD has released a number of Ryzen chips based on […]
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35 watt AMD Ryzen + Radeon Vega chips coming soon?
AMD launched its first desktop chips with Ryzen CPU cores and integrated Radeon Vega graphics today. But both the Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G are 65 watt processors. What if you want something a little less power hungry? It looks like AMD’s got you covered. While the company hasn’t made any official announcements […]
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AMD launches Ryzen processors with Radeon Vega graphics for $99 and up
When AMD launched its first Ryzen chips for desktop computers last year, the company was just focused on the CPU: if you wanted a GPU you needed to buy a separate graphics card. Then the company released its first all-in-one APU (accelerated processing unit) chips: the Ryzen Mobile laptop processors with integrated Radeon Vega graphics. […]
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AMD roadmap: 2nd-gen Ryzen chips and Ryzen desktop CPUs with integrated Radeon graphics
5 Comments on AMD roadmap: 2nd-gen Ryzen chips and Ryzen desktop CPUs with integrated Radeon graphicsAMD is outlining its plans for 2018, and along with introducing new Ryzen Mobile processors, the company plans to bring its first Ryzen desktop chips with integrated graphics to market. AMD has long used its graphics technology to help differentiate its chips from Intel’s. But while the first laptop chips based on the company’s Zen […]