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View AllAMD Confirms Zen 6 EPYC Venice: First 2nm Server CPU Launching July 2026
AMD confirms Zen 6 EPYC Venice launch at Advancing AI 2026 (July 22-23). As the first 2nm server CPU, it features triple...
AMD Unveils Zen 6/7 CPU and MI400/500 GPU Roadmap, Targets NVIDIA Rubin with HBM4 and 2nm
AMD unveiled its Zen 6/7 CPU and MI400/500 GPU roadmap at its 2026 Financial Analyst Day, featuring TSMC 2nm process and...
TSMC Hikes Advanced Node Prices 5-10%, Squeezing AI Chip Margins
TSMC informs clients of 5-10% price hikes across all advanced nodes (7nm+), affecting 74% of wafer revenue. Apple, Nvidi...
Recent Signals
View All IntelligenceAMD's Experimental Topological Ghost Protocol Boosts MI300X Inference 10x
AMD introduces experimental Topological Ghost Protocol (TGP) on MI300X GPUs, achieving 431 tokens/se...
AMD and NVIDIA Raise GPU Kit Prices by 10%: GDDR Shortage Exposes AI Supply Squeeze
AMD has notified AIB partners of a ~10% price hike on GPU+GDDR bundled kits effective July 2026, fol...
AMD MI430X GPU Delivers >200 TFLOPS Native FP64, Reshaping HPC-AI Convergence Baseline
AMD powers 4 of top 10 TOP500 supercomputers and previews MI430X GPU with >200 TFLOPS native FP64. T...
AMD MEXT Acquisition Turns NAND Flash into DRAM-Class Memory, Halving AI Inference Cost
AMD acquires MEXT, whose technology makes cheap NAND flash behave like expensive DRAM, doubling to q...
AMD Silently Drops TSME from Consumer Ryzen: Security Segmentation Locks Enterprise Users
AMD quietly removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs, rese...
AMD Mustang Peak Threadripper: 144 cores, PCIe 6.0, TR6 socket – Power and memory challenges loom
AMD's Zen 6 Threadripper 'Mustang Peak' is confirmed with 2nm TSMC process, DDR5, PCIe 6.0, and a ne...
AMD MLPerf 6.0: MI350 GPUs Achieve 3.5x Leap with MXFP4, Debut Multi-Node Training
AMD submitted its most comprehensive MLPerf Training 6.0 results, including first multi-node trainin...
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Read Analysis →Apple vs OpenAI Trade Secret Lawsuit: Silicon Valley's AI Hardware Talent War Heats Up
Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 for systematic poaching and trade secret theft, sen...
Read Analysis →AMD-OpenAI 6GW Historic AI Chip Agreement: Birth of the AI Compute Closed-Loop Economy and Systemic Risks
On July 16, 2026, AMD and OpenAI signed a historic 6GW compute supply agreement ...
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