Sean Hollister

Senior Editor

Sean HollisterFeb 4, 2025

AMD’s chips are winning again — and they’ve officially powered 100 million game consoles.

Its Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings boast record revenue for both data center and client divisions — where “client” equals its Ryzen chips with their Intel-beating gaming CPUs and impressive integrated graphics. While AMD’s gaming biz has been cut in half year-over-year as game console sales dip, AMD says it’s cumulatively shipped 100 million units into current-gen consoles.

With PS5 cumulative shipments ending the year at 65 million, does that mean around 35 million Xbox systems, or are handhelds counted too?

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I plugged an Nvidia RTX 5090 into a gaming handheld

The power of Oculink.

Sean HollisterFeb 4, 2025

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Maybe Nvidia should have waited to ‘launch’ RTX 5090 and 5080?

Even if you managed to buy one — statistically, you couldn’t — owners have discovered Valorant and ARK Survival Evolved can crash on launch due to driver issues, with Valorant developer Riot blaming Nvidia. Some are reporting performance mode crashes with Fortnite and “unknown error” crashes with PUBG too.

Meanwhile, Overclockers has become the second UK retailer to say: some RTX 5090 buyers may not receive their cards until May. Japanese retailer PC Studio has also apologized for the injuries at its raffle ticket sale.

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Intel is canceling Falcon Shores, its next big AI chip.

“I am not happy with where we are today,” Intel interim co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus says of the company’s AI server business on today’s earnings call, a business which has not met its promises with Gaudi.

So, says Holthaus, Intel will “simplify our roadmap and concentrate our resources” by canceling Falcon Shores. We plan to leverage Falcon Shores as an internal test chip only without bringing it to market.” It’ll focus on Jaguar Shores, a “system-level solution at rack scale,” instead.