AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
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AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
Computex 2026: All the news and announcements
Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more. Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made […]
Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams
If you asked me what I’d change about the Xbox Ally X handheld – aside from fixing Windows, I mean – I’d tell you two key things. First, give me a bigger, better screen. Even a little bit bigger, so games feel less claustrophobic and with less ugly bezel. Second, get rid of the “Library” […]
AMD’s FSR 4.1 upscaling tech is coming to older graphics cards
AMD is bringing its FSR 4.1 upscaling tech to older graphics cards. In an announcement on X, Jack Huynh, AMD’s head of computing and graphics, says FSR 4.1 will roll out to RDNA 3 GPUs in July, followed by a launch on RDNA 2 chips in early 2027. This summer’s update will allow Radeon RX […]
AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too
For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips have mainly been geared toward gamers, but they’ve also gotten better at creative tasks over recent years. In our review of the […]
Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI data centers later this year
After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it’s producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it’s another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can continue to spawn more […]
Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames
Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to “PlayStation platforms” in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it’s actually rendering, which can create smoother perceived image quality while (typically) introducing some […]
US reportedly considering sweeping new chip export controls
In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S. government would play a role in every chip export sale regardless of which country it’s coming from.
Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’
Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.