GPU prices in China have increased massively due to recent adjustments to GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory, affecting AMD & NVIDIA graphics cards. China Sees Big Surge In GPU Prices Overnight, Affecting Both AMD & NVIDIA Graphics Cards GPU makers such as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel have been trying to absorb memory price increases for a while now, but they have gotten out of hand due to persistent shortages, which have raised the DRAM costs for GDDR6 and GDDR7 products 10-fold, resulting in a significant increase in graphics card prices. And it's not just memory prices; other components that go into […]

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AMD's Zen 7 architecture might power the last Ryzen family on the AM5 platform, while Zen 8 could be the first on AM6 platforms. AMD Ryzen "Zen 7" CPUs Likely The Last AM5 Desktop Family While Ryzen "Zen 8" Moves to AM6 The AM5 platform, first introduced in 2022, has seen three generations of Ryzen so far. The Ryzen 7000 "Raphael" series was the first, followed by Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point", and the most recent, Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" series. Next up, AMD will be introducing its Zen 6-based "Olympic Ridge" family, which is going to bring some nice upgrades […]

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The company has come a long way since its acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006. This transformed it from a CPU maker to a full-fledged computing giant. Twenty Years Later, the ATI Acquisition Remains AMD's Most Important Milestone, Which Helped in Driving Innovation from Radeon Graphics to AI Accelerators On July 24, 2006, AMD announced one of the biggest acquisitions in semiconductor history by acquiring ATI Technologies in a deal worth approximately $5.4 billion. At that time, it was seen as a big gamble that would put AMD directly against giants like Intel and NVIDIA. Exactly two decades later, it […]

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AI chip designer AMD will procure HBM4 memory from Samsung and has signed an agreement to this effect, according to remarks made by CEO Lisa Su. The firm held its Advancing AI event earlier this week, and Su revealed the decision to bring Samsung into the fold to reporters at the conference. For memory manufacturers, securing contracts from firms such as AMD comes after they have qualified their products to meet the designers' specifications. At the event, Su announced AMD's Helios AI rack solutions to further beef up its portfolio and compete with NVIDIA. AMD Is Close To Procure Large […]

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MSI has one more AI mini PC for enthusiasts that can deliver high-performance computing and carry out AI workloads locally. MSI Debuts PRO MAX EDGE AI+ Mini PC, Supporting Multi-System Clustering for Handling LLMs With Up To 670 Billion Parameters Some vendors still deploy Ryzen AI 300 chips in their mini PCs due to their powerful computing capabilities and strong AI performance, making them perfect for small AI systems. MSI has already released a couple of AI mini PCs based on the latest AMD chips, and has now rolled out another one, featuring the Strix Halo chips. MSI says the […]

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AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

NVIDIA scooped up Groq as soon as its LPU showed promise in terms of efficient inferencing. Now, AMD has countered NVIDIA's gambit by partnering with Cerebras to integrate its Helios rack-scale solution with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine, dramatically increasing the inferencing capabilities of the integrated system. LPU vs. Wafer-Scale Engine For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Groq's Language Processing Unit (LPU) clusters hundreds or even thousands of specialized chips together, where each individual chip contains giant blocks of Matrix Multiply (MXM) and Vector (VXM) units as well as around 230MB of blazing-fast SRAM. Also, AI model weights […]

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AMD is predictably cheerful about its AI-boosted prospects, declaring in a decidedly sunny tone that it now controls nearly half of the data center CPU market, as its compute-related Total Addressable Market (TAM) scales to a whopping $2 trillion by 2030. AMD now controls 46 percent of the data center CPU market just as orchestrator CPUs start gaining traction for agentic workloads AMD has just shared some very interesting slides during its "Advancing AI 2026" event, illustrating the sheer scale of market opportunity at its disposal right now. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, CPUs act […]

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AMD has officially launched its EPYC Venice CPU family, spanning several chips, with performance leadership in Agentic AI with Zen 6 cores. The Industry's First 2nm HPC CPU Is Here, Meet EPYC Venice Family, Packing Up To 256 "Zen 6" Cores & 203 Billion Transistors One component that is really shaping up as the king of the Agentic AI era is the CPU. AMD is leveraging its brand new Zen 6 core architecture that will be used on its 6th Gen EPYC CPUs, codenamed Venice. AMD's EPYC Venice chips are the first HPC product to enter volume production on TSMC's […]

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Intel and AMD are signing long term agreements with Chinese data center firms to provide them with CPUs for AI computing, says a report from Reuters. CPUs in AI computing rose to prominence earlier this year after agentic AI demand reshaped the market. Agentic computing places a greater emphasis on CPUs, and according to the sources, the deals are motivated by the rapid price rise due to high demand. AMD & Intel Set To Cover A Year's Worth Of CPU Supplies To Chinese AI Data Centers, Says Report The surge in AI demand for CPUs has also led to Intel […]

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Another substantial price hike is incoming as the green team has supposedly raised prices for its memory kits. NVIDIA RTX GPUs to See Another Price Hike as the Company Reportedly Passes Increased Memory Kit Costs to its Board Partners The GPUs continue to suffer from the instability caused by DRAM availability and pricing. NVIDIA and AMD have adjusted the prices of their current-gen GPUs multiple times already, and it looks like there is another price hike incoming in the coming days. Since both manufacturers source memory from major suppliers, they have no option but to pass the increased costs to […]

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AMD has announced new additions to its data‑centre portfolio at Advancing AI 2026, introducing both the 6th Gen EPYC 9006 Series server CPUs and the Instinct MI400 Series GPUs, aimed at next-generation AI infrastructure.

The EPYC 9006 Series is described by AMD as a workload‑optimised CPU lineup built to support agentic AI, where CPUs take on a larger share of work by running agents, coordinating tasks and managing data flows. AMD claims the new generation is designed to handle this increased load through higher core counts, expanded memory bandwidth and support for next‑generation I/O standards such as PCIe Gen 6 and MRDIMM.

The EPYC 9006 Series consists of four CPU families. The SP7 tier is the maximum‑density option, with core counts up to 256 cores and 512 threads, along with high‑frequency variants reaching up to 5GHz. SP8 models focus on efficiency, offering up to 128 core configurations designed for enterprise, edge and power‑constrained deployments. For HPC and memory‑sensitive workloads, AMD points to the SP7X variants, which it says offer triple the L3 cache per core compared to SP7. The LP tier serves as an AI host‑node CPU, using LPDDR memory and higher frequencies to keep accelerators supplied with data in multi-GPU racks.

On the GPU side, AMD introduced the Instinct MI400 Series, split between the MI455X for frontier‑scale AI deployments and the MI430X for sovereign AI and HPC. The MI455X is AMD's highest‑end accelerator for large‑model training, fine‑tuning and high‑volume inference, while the MI430X is aimed at workloads requiring numerical accuracy. AMD says the MI430X can deliver up to 288 TFLOPS of FP64 performance, alongside HBM4 memory and high‑bandwidth interconnects to support larger models.

The MI400 Series also incorporates security and system‑level features for sensitive AI and HPC environments, including SecureBoot, encrypted GPU‑to‑GPU links and hardware‑based protections. These GPUs support AMD’s ROCm software stack for AI development, which is also receiving updates this week through ROCm.ai – a new AI‑native developer environment that adds a unified CLI, AMD‑authored guidance for coding assistants and AI‑driven workload optimisation.

Finally, AMD is also expanding into physical AI and robotics, introducing new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors and Kria AI system‑on‑modules for autonomous machines and industrial systems. These platforms combine Zen 5 CPU cores, integrated RDNA graphics and an NPU, with shared access to memory to reduce latency in real‑time workloads.

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Framework has previewed its upcoming Desktop featuring the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 chip with 192 GB memory that effortlessly runs DeepSeek V4-Flash. Framework's AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 Desktop Makes Several Improvements Besides Packing A Massive 192 GB "Unified" Memory At AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event, Framework is previewing its upcoming Desktop PC that comes packed with the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 chip. This chip is an updated version of AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395, offering the same 16 Zen 5 cores but clocked at a higher 5.2 GHz frequency. The GPU is upgraded to the Radeon […]

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AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event will be the center stage for the company's next-gen AI portfolio, which includes Zen 6 EPYC and the Instinct MI400 series, powering the Helios AI rack. AMD To Host Advancing AI 2026 Event In July: Pushing AI Forward With Next-gen Ecosystems Advancing AI is back as AMD is all set to unveil how it's advancing the segment for next-generation workloads. At this year's event, AMD will focus on the next-generation ecosystems powering the enterprise and cloud markets. The event will begin in less than 24 hours at 9:30 AM PST (23rd July), with a keynote […]

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NVIDIA says that it will be able to make 1,000 Vera Rubin Racks per day following the success of its Grace CPUs in AI markets. Vera Will Be A Monumental Success For NVIDIA After Grace As The Firm Races To Build 1,000 Racks Per Day Since its inception, NVIDIA has been known as a GPU maker, but the company has slowly started to move away from that, and now recognizes itself as a full-stack system provider. That is why the company is making extra efforts to accelerate its CPU roadmap, and while Grace was its first full-on take on a […]

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AMD and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership to deploy up to 2 Gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs through Helios AI racks. Helios AI Racks With Instinct MI450 GPUs See Major 2GW Partnership AMD Bags Anthropic As Strategic Partner A few months ago, we reported that AMD was in talks with a major AI firm to secure them as a customer for the upcoming Instinct MI450 series GPUs, the chips powering the Helios AI rack-scale system. Today, that customer is officially announced by AMD, and as such, Anthropic will become one of the company's key partners moving forward to […]

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AMD has showcased its next-generation EPYC Venice CPU at the Advancing AI event, featuring a phenomenal core count of 256 based on Zen 6. AMD Is Firing Across All Cylinders With Its Next-Gen EPYC Venice CPU Lineup: Flagship With 256 "Zen 6" Cores Pictured & It's A Monster Chip For the next stream of data centers, CPUs are going to play a much more important role than GPUs due to the rise in Agentic AI & RL workflows. As such, all CPU vendors are releasing brand new chips that unleash the best capabilities for these workloads while leading the charts […]

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