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AMD’s new Ryzen and Athlon 7020 “Mendocino” chips bring RDNA 2 graphics to budget laptops

The first laptops powered by AMD Mendocino chips should arrive by the end of the year with prices starting at around $399. As expected, the processors are designed for budget devices and pair a low-end GPU based on AMD’s current-gen graphics technology with a CPU based on older AMD architecture. AMD says the result is […]

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AMD launches Ryzen Embedded V2000 chips with up to 2X performance boost

It’s been a few years since AMD introduced its first Ryzen chips for embedded devices, and in that time the company’s laptop, desktop, and server processors have made big strides in performance while the embedded chips have… not. Now AMD is updating its embedded chip family with the introduction of Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors. They’re […]

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AMD introduces Ryzen 9 4900H chip for high-end gaming laptops

AMD is expanding its Ryzen 4000 line of laptop processors with its most powerful mobile chip to date. The new AMD Ryzen 9 4900H is a 45 watt, 8-core/16-thread processor with a base frequency of 3.3 GHz, support for boost speeds up to 4.4 GHz, and an 8-core, 1.75GHz Radeon GPU. It’s a 7nm chip based […]

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AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen desktop chips coming in July

AMD is getting ready to ship its first Ryzen processors based on the new Zen 2 architecture, which the company says offers up to a 15 percent boost in instructions per clock, double the cache size, and twice the floating point performance. The first Zen 2 chips will be AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen processors for desktops, […]

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AMD to launch 7nm chips based on “Zen 2” architecture in 2019

AMD is outlining some of its plans for the coming years at a “Next Horizon” event in San Fransciso today. The company’s first 7nm chips based on the new “Zen 2” architecture are et to launch in 2019. We could see 7nm+ “Zen 3” chips the following year. And Zen 4 is already in development, […]

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AMD roadmap: 2nd-gen Ryzen chips and Ryzen desktop CPUs with integrated Radeon graphics

AMD 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 […]