Last year AMD introduced its first chips designed for Chromebooks, and within a few months a handful of PC makers began selling Chrome OS laptops powered by the inexpensive, low-power processors. Now AMD is taking aim at higher-performance Chromebooks. The company has introduced a new line of Ryzen and Athlon chips for Chromebooks. And unlike […]
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Lilbits: Samsung leftovers, LibreOffice 7.0, and another PC with a 6W AMD Zen chip
Yesterday Liliputing reported that Lenovo has two new low-cost laptops for the education market that will be among the first to ship with 6-watt AMD processors based on the chip maker’s Zen architecture. But I forgot at the time that Lenovo also has a mini-desktop that will use the most powerful of those new chips. Lenovo […]
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AMD brings Zen architecture to entry-level 6W laptop processors
Lenovo has two new low-cost laptops for the education market coming in September. Priced at $219 and up, they’re designed for students and schools that want to balance performance, all-day battery life, and low cost. They’re also powered by previously unannounced AMD chips. The Lenovo 100e 2nd-gen and Lenovo 300e 2nd-gen laptops feature some of AMD’s first […]
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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 launches low-cost Athlon desktop chips with Zen CPU cores and Vega graphics
AMD is expanding its desktop processor lineup with a new set of low-cost, low-power processors. The new Athlon 200GE, Athlon 220GE, and Athlon 240GE are based on the same Zen architecture as AMD’s more powerful Ryzen CPUs. But these are budget chips with prices starting at $55 for an entry-level model. The chips also have […]
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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 goes Pro to take on Intel vPro
AMD’s next set of Ryzen processors based on the new Zen architecture are designed for enterprise users. Called Ryzen Pro, these are basically tweaked versions of existing Ryzen desktop chips with added security features. In other words, Ryzen Pro is AMD’s answer to processors with Intel’s vPro technology. The new Ryzen Pro chips are roughly […]
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16-core desktop CPU coming this summer
As expected, AMD has a new high-power desktop processor on the way, and it’s a beast. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper chip is a 16-core processor with support for 32-threads. It’s set to launch this summer. Based on the same “Zen” architecture as the company’s recently released Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 chips, the new processor […]
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AMD Ryzen 5 desktop chips are now available for $170 and up
As promised, AMD’s new Ryzen 5 chips for desktops are now available for purchase. Prices start at about $170 for a Ryzen 5 1400 quad-core processor, but things really start to get interesting when you spend a little more money. For $250 you can pick up a Ryzen 5 1600X hexa-core chip with hyperthreading, which […]
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AMD Ryzen 3 1200 chip details leaked ahead of schedule
AMD’s high-performance Ryzen 7 desktop chips launched earlier this year. The company’s mid-range Ryzen 5 chips are set to go on sale next week. Next up? AMD plans to launch Ryzen 3 series chips to compete with Intel’s Core i3 lineup in the second half of 2017. But PC component maker ASRock may have just […]