AMD trying to take on Apple Silicon with Ryzen 7040

AMD has shown off its Ryzen 7040 series processor that is able to edge out the year-old Apple Silicon M1 Pro processor in cherry-picked benchmarks.

Wesley Hilliard 3 years ago 36

TSMC, Intel, AMD halt shipments to Russia as part of US sanctions

Semiconductor manufacturers TSMC, Intel, and AMD have all suspended sales to Russia in the wake of US sanctions over the invasion of the Ukraine.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 0

Sonnet unveils new eGPU bundles featuring AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Sonnet Technologies has announced a number of eGPU product bundles featuring AMD's flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card that can bring the card's capabilities to the Mac.

Mike Peterson 4 years ago 5

Spectre comes back from the dead to haunt Intel chips

Security researchers have found new versions of chip flaws affecting Intel and AMD processors that get around existing mitigations for Spectre attacks, resurrecting vulnerabilities that may affect Intel-based Macs.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 7

macOS 11.4 adds support for AMD 'Big Navi' 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT

Apple released the first developer beta of macOS 11.4 with the ability for Intel-based Macs to connect to GPUs that use AMD Navi RDNA2 architecture.

Wesley Hilliard 5 years ago 7

AMD debuts $479 Radeon RX 6700 XT aimed at 1440p workflows

As expected, AMD has announced the Radeon RX 6700 XT, a more affordable $479 GPU that could eventually be used in the Mac Pro or Thunderbolt eGPU solutions.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 4

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU may launch at March 3 event

AMD will be expanding its Radeon RX 6000 graphics card line on March 3, with the launch thought to introduce lower-priced options that could eventually be used with the Mac Pro or eGPU solutions.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 11

AMD acquiring Apple supplier and FGPA maker Xilinx for $35B in stock

AMD on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to purchase long-time Apple supplier Xilinx, mainly known for making a type of reconfigurable chip, for $35 billion in stock.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 5

AMD to unveil Radeon RX 6000 GPU family on Oct. 28

AMD is set to announce its new line of Radeon RX 6000 graphics chips at an event on Oct. 28, the chipmaker said Thursday.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 30

Display lines on 27-inch iMac may be Radeon Pro 5700XT GPU issue

A very small number of 27-inch iMac users are reporting issues with their Mac's graphics, with some encountering random screen glitches in the form of lines appearing on the display.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 10

The Mac Pro can now be configured with a Radeon Pro W5500X

Apple Mac Pro buyers now have the option to equip their workstations with an AMD Radeon Pro W5500X with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 1

Benchmarks for iMac with unreleased Intel processor & Radeon Pro surface

Alleged benchmark test results for an unreleased 2020 iMac with a currently nonexistent Intel Comet Lake chip have surfaced on Geekbench.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 25

AMD unveils 7nm Radeon Pro VII graphics card for workstations

AMD on Wednesday unveiled the Radeon Pro VII, a high-end graphics card similar to past Mac Pro offerings but aimed at the broader professional workstation market.

Mike Peterson 6 years ago 9

AMD Radeon 'Navi 2X' cards will offer ray tracing to future Macs

AMD has detailed the next generation of Radeon graphics processing units codenamed "Navi 2X," with the RDNA 2 family anticipated to include hardware ray tracing among other new capabilities in cards that should be compatible with macOS.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 5

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 offered as price-conscious alternative Mac Pro GPU

AMD has launched another professional graphics card which could be used in the Mac Pro, with the Radeon Pro W5500 offered as an alternative to the high-powered W5700 with restrained performance, at half the price of its stablemate.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 15

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