Windows is still the vast majority of gaming PCs — over 96 percent — but the Steam Deck has thrust Linux into second-place, according to Valve’s latest hardware survey.
A full 42 percent of those Linux gamers are on SteamOS Holo specifically, which (for now) only officially ships on the Steam Deck. Is it time for Apple to finally get gamers in gear?
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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.
I’m not sure why the company is charging money when it was supposed to be free (see image from the Kickstarter below), but the new all-metal hotend on the new AnkerMake M5C is coming to the original M5 as well.
Backers will only pay $1 plus shipping to upgrade their M5, and other owners can get it for $10 if they buy soon (it’ll cost $35 afterward). Not bad?
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.
On July 7th, SleepyCow’s bike finally hit 10,000 supporters on Lego Ideas, which means Lego’s gotta decide whether to produce it. While most Ideas are based on existing IP, we do get some mechanical gems like the Typewriter or working Fresnel lighthouse.
Bikes aren’t just our nostalgic past, though — they’re the future too! But almost every “bike” Lego sells today is a motorbike, and it only recently began including bike lanes.
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.
