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AMD is one of the world’s biggest computer chip companies, best known for its fierce competition with Intel. It’s a rivalry that really kicked off in the early 2000s when AMD’s Athlon and Opteron processors saw great success. While AMD has often struggled to keep up with Intel, its latest Ryzen CPUs are some of the most competitive chips it has produced in years. AMD also acquired ATI in 2006, a 3D graphics card company. It now produces a variety of Radeon GPUs that compete with Nvidia’s GeForce line of graphics cards. AMD also produces the chips found in the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and the Valve Steam Deck, and it re-entered the server market with its Epyc brand in 2017.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
All the CES highlights so far.

Monday was quite the whirlwind! Let’s take a step back and recap all of the fun surprises:

• Apple dropped the launch date for the Vision Pro.

• Both LG and Samsung are getting into transparent TVs.

Samsung’s Ballie AI robot now doubles as a projector.

• MSI has a new Steam Deck competitor called the Claw.

Nvidia revealed its RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super.

Intel and AMD showed off new chips.

• There are a lot of new laptops (and I mean a lot).

There’s still more to come! Stay tuned to The Verge for more CES coverage from the show floor.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
How to watch AMD’s ‘Advancing AI PCs’ keynote.

AMD is returning to CES 2024 this year to talk about AI PCs. Rumors suggest there could be some new Ryzen mobile chips, potentially a new AM4 processor, and even a new Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU. AMD’s event kicks off at 8AM PT / 10AM ET / 3PM GMT today, and you can watch the whole thing below. Stay tuned to The Verge for all the latest news from AMD.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Speaking of handheld PC gaming chips, here’s an incredible look at the Steam Deck’s APU.

The gorgeous X-ray-like close-up photos in this video are from Fritzchens Fritz — I’ve introduced you to his work before. You can also go straight to his Flickr page if you don’t have time for video. I particularly like this shot.

The video also shows how much smaller the Steam Deck OLED’s die-shrunk Sephiroth chip is — no die shots of that one yet, though.

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Dan Seifert
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 7000 chips have a fuse that will blow if you overclock them.

Blowing the hidden fuse doesn’t necessarily void their warranty; while damage caused by overclocking won’t be covered, “other unrelated issues could still qualify for warranty repair / replacement,” the company says in a statement confirming the fuse to Tom’s Hardware.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD accused of failing to deliver handheld gaming chips.

GPD, a boutique handheld PC maker that’s been kicking around long before the Steam Deck, is now pointing the finger at AMD for failing to deliver an entire batch of 7840U chips for its Win Max 2.

Practically every PC gaming handheld maker save Valve uses this chip or derivatives. Maybe a shortage? Bad blood? We’ve asked AMD to comment. Ayaneo has a clamshell coming out too...

A folding clamshell handheld gaming pc.
The GPD Win Max 2.
Image: GPD
Monica Chin
Monica Chin
Turn your Intel laptop into an AMD laptop with this one simple trick.

Framework has begun shipping out AMD mainboards for its 13-inch laptop, which was previously Intel-only. The component experts over at Tom’s Hardware have popped open their 13-inch model and swapped its Intel Core i7 out for an AMD Ryzen chip. The process took less than 30 minutes. Less than 30 minutes!

“All upgrades should be this easy,” editor Andrew E. Freedman writes.

AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution and competing with Nvidia
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At this year’s Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world’s largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia’s leading GPU, AI regulation, and the global supply chain.

Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AMD Lisa Su on Apple’s claim that the iPhone 15 Pro is “the best game console”: “I don’t know about that.”

I asked Su if she’s worried about Apple’s recent push to prove that its devices and M series chips are good for triple-A gaming. I get the sense she’s not.

“We’re gonna continue to push the envelope on the highest performing PCs and consoles’ chips, and I think we’re gonna be pretty good,” she added.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
“Is this the end of console gaming? I don’t see it.”

AMD’s Lisa Su somewhat dodges a question about whether a cloud gaming shift is underway: “I see PC gaming strong, I see console gaming strong, and I see cloud gaming also having legs. They all need similar types of technology but they obviously use it in different ways.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“We have the capability of building custom chips.”

That was Su’s response to Nilay asking if it would be possible. Microsoft and AMD are reportedly working together on an in-house AI chip for Microsoft. Su also confirmed that it would be possible to make AMD chips available to Azure customers in an invisible way — but she suggested asking Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott asking that question as well. Fortunately, he’ll be starting Wednesday’s show!

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“I don’t know that I would call it an earth-shattering geopolitical event.”

That’s AMD CEO Lisa Su’s take on that Huawei’s 7nm chip, which have raised some questions.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
“The semiconductor ecosystem in the US needed to be built five years ago.”

AMD’s Lisa Su is happy with CHIPS subsidies, but thinks we’re maybe a teensy bit behind the curve.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AMD’s Lisa Su says that chip supply and demand are in a good place — with perhaps the exception of GPUs for LLM training and inference.

But Su says the company is putting “a tremendous amount of effort to getting the entire supply chain ramped up.”

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Nathan Edwards
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD’s Radeon graphics boss is leaving.

Scott Herkelman ran the Radeon business unit since 2016, getting AMD back in the game.

He’s not the only AMD graphics boss to leave this year, as “Computing & Graphics EVP” Rick Bergman recently retired too. Bergman was replaced by Jack Huynh, whose previous division helped AMD dominate two generations of game consoles (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series) with semi-custom gaming chips.

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT review: a nudge into the 1440p era

AMD’s latest GPUs will put even more pressure on Nvidia’s RTX 40-series pricing.

Tom Warren
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 review: sure, this one is good, too

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Verge Score

It’s not quite as powerful as the gargantuan Strix Scar X3D, but it’s also not quite as expensive.

Monica Chin
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
AMD leaks its Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT.

AMD has accidentally revealed its Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT in a post on X / Twitter. VideoCardz spotted the post, which linked to the AMD website and shows off unannounced Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT GPUs. AMD has a Gamescom event later today, where it’s expected to announce these new GPUs.

AMD posted its new Radeon details early.
AMD posted its new Radeon details early.
Image: AMD
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
More Starfield-branded gear for you to Starfield on.

In addition to a remastered edition of Quake II for all platforms, Bethesda just announced this Starfield limited edition AMD hardware at QuakeCon 2023.

However, unlike the $299.99 Starfield Constellation Edition that comes with a real-life watch and access to the game up to five days before its September 6th launch, you won’t be able to buy these. Only 500 were made, and apparently, you’ll only be able to get them during giveaways on the QuakeCon livestream this weekend.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
New AMD gaming GPUs are coming before October 1st.

Not sure how I missed this on the earnings call, but Su says “new, enthusiast-class Radeon 7000 series cards” are coming Q3 — a quarter that ends on October 1st, less than two months from today!

VideoCardz rightly points out that these “enthusiast” GPUs will almost certainly be the RX 7700, 7800 or 7800 XT, because AMD uses “ultra-enthusiast” to describe 7900, and “mainstream” to describe 7600.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD’s shovels for AI gold miners are coming Q4.

AMD’s MI300 data center AI accelerator chips will ramp in the fourth quarter of this year, CEO Lisa Su just said during the company’s Q2 earnings call.

She says the company already has customers for the MI300X generative AI chip. “We expect early deployments as we go into the first half of 2024, and then we would expect more volume in the second half of ‘24 as those things fully qualify,” says Su.

AMD projects data center AI accelerators could be a $150 billion market by 2027.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD loves its consoles — but made too many old CPUs and GPUs.

AMD’s Q2 2023 earnings shows the company’s doing worse in PCs than industry slump would suggest — while Intel’s PC chips were down 12 percent, AMD’s client CPUs are down 54 percent. But AMD says its new Ryzen 7000 CPUs are actually up 35 percent sequentially — a glut of older chips is likely to blame.

Gaming rev was only down 4 percent because semi-custom (read: game consoles) actually grew — but gaming graphics (read: GPUs) are down. Overall, the company’s back to a slim profit of $27 million in Q2.

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Click here for larger image (or just go to AMD’s IR page).