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AMD takes aim at Intel with new 96-core Threadripper 9000 series CPU

2025-07-17T10:51:36-04:00

AMD has announced its latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series of CPUs at Computex today. The 9000 Series and 9000 WX-Series are built for the demanding workstation market, and the top Threadripper Pro 9995WX will ship with 96 cores and 192 threads.

This flagship Threadripper chip is designed for professionals who are working on visual effects, simulations, and AI model development. The Threadripper Pro 9995WX also has up to 384MB of L3 cache and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 5, making it ideal to pair with multiple GPUs.

AMD claims that the Threadripper Pro 9995WX is 2.2x faster than Intel's 60-core Xeon W9-3595X processor in Cinebench 2 …

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Here is what’s happening at Computex 2024

2025-01-22T08:02:47-05:00

We’re only halfway through 2024, and there’s no sign of AI-related announcements slowing down — especially with Computex 2024 here. This year’s Taipei-based convention starts on June 4th and ends on June 7th, and you can expect to see big keynotes from AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, Nvidia, and Arm detailing their upcoming strategies for processors that better handle the AI workloads we’re increasingly foisting on computers.

Prior to Computex, we heard a lot about new Copilot Plus PC laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips, a bunch of new Microsoft Copilot features, and where Apple slots into the AI bandwagon now that it has competition from another Arm processor.

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The 7-inch MSI Claw will get Lunar Lake, too — and Claw 2, Claw 3, Claw 4 are coming

2024-06-07T13:50:13-04:00

The original MSI Claw. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

If you're still under the impression that an original MSI Claw might be a worthy purchase, I beg you to reconsider. MSI has now announced not one but two successors to the embarrassing handheld that are coming this fall - and hinting it might show off yet another one at CES in January.

MSI already revealed an eight-inch Lunar Lake version dubbed the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus at Computex this week, but the company will put Intel's Lunar Lake into a new seven-inch version at the same time. MSI Claw product management director Clifford Chun revealed the existence of that handheld in an interview with PCWorld and explained that both devices should arr …

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This handheld gaming PC is made to be modded

2024-06-07T11:45:30-04:00

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Adata has become the latest company to join the hype surrounding PC gaming handhelds - but the XPG Nia prototype it revealed during Computex 2024 is completely different from what we've seen so far. The handheld is the first to come with LPCAMM2 memory, making it far easier to swap out and upgrade RAM.

As reported by Liliputing, you'll be able to access the device's storage beneath the kickstand on the back of the device. You can also remove and replace the device's M.2 2230 SSD. These aren't the only things you'll be able to mod, either.

During an interview with YouTuber GGF Events, XPG product head Luca Di Fiore said the company is build …

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Zotac Zone official: this handheld has twin trackpads, jog wheels, adjustable triggers, and OLED

2024-06-04T19:13:15-04:00

The Zotac Zone. | Image: Zotac

It's handheld season, and the Asus ROG Ally X and MSI Claw 8 AI Plus aren't the only second-gen Windows gaming handhelds in town - GPU manufacturer Zotac has officially revealed its Zone at Computex, and it does a few things differently than the competition.

Zotac already teased that the Zone would have an OLED screen, something that only the Steam Deck OLED has managed in PC handhelds before - as well as two-stage adjustable triggers like an Xbox Elite gamepad and drift resistant Hall effect joysticks. But did you know it'll also have symmetrical PlayStation-esque joysticks, programmable dials around each one, twin Steam Deck-like trackpad …

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Here’s Jensen Huang signing a woman’s chest

2024-06-04T18:01:32-04:00

But first, here is an image of Jensen Huang not signing a women’s chest. | Photo: Getty Images

Well, here's Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, signing a woman's chest in a crowded booth at Computex. In the video below, you can see he asks whether this is a good idea before he eventually signs the woman's top. He then returns to signing more traditional fare.

This isn't an unusual sight when it comes to actors or musicians. But can you imagine Tim Cook doing that after an iPhone event? Or Sundar Pichai after Google I/O?

Yet those men also cultivate very different public images than Huang. Instead of hoodies, double polos, thousand-dollar T-shirts, or business suits, he's typically decked out in some kind of leather jacket. What he want …

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This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks

2024-06-03T23:00:00-04:00

Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, shows off Intel’s new Lunar Lake processor during the Intel Technology Tour in Taipei, Taiwan | Image: Intel

Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years. But Intel didn't settle down after that: today it's revealing how Lunar Lake, its next laptop chip coming this fall, will overhaul the formula yet again.

Facing the existential threat of Arm and the opportunity of AI PCs, Intel has apparently ditched its famous tick-tock cadence for a whole new system-on-chip design, one that not only triples the size and more than quadruples the performance of its AI accelerator, but promises up to 14 percent faster CPU performance at the same clockspeed, 50 percen …

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Official: the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus has an Asus-matching 80Wh battery and Intel Lunar Lake

2024-06-03T23:00:00-04:00

This is not the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus but, rather, a Fallout edition of the original. (I used generative expand around the edge because the image was cropping poorly.) | Image: MSI

Just three months after releasing its first gaming handheld PC to damning reviews - here's mine - MSI is already announcing a likely replacement. The MSI Claw 8 AI Plus swaps its lackluster Intel Meteor Lake chip for the brand-new Lunar Lake ones, while replacing its seven-inch, 1080p 120Hz variable resolution rate screen for a larger eight-inch one. (But there will be a new 7-inch one too, as we learned days after I first wrote this story.)

Perhaps even more importantly, the 8-incher will boast up to an 80 watt-hour battery, MSI tells The Verge - tying it with the recently announced Asus ROG Ally X for biggest battery in a PC gaming handhe …

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AMD’s first Zen 5 CPU is the ‘monster’ Ryzen 9 9950X

2024-06-02T23:00:00-04:00

AMD is launching its first Zen 5 desktop processors in July, with the Ryzen 9 9950X flagship leading the pack as "the world's most powerful desktop consumer processor." Based on AMD's existing AM5 platform, the new Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs include the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X.

The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-core, 32-thread CPU, with 80MB of L2+L3 cache and a 5.7GHz boost clock. AMD is promising around a 16 percent instructions per cycle (IPC) uplift in performance over the previous-generation Ryzen CPUs, with big promises of performance gains in productivity as well as gaming.

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"It's a big leap, an …

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AMD’s next generation of AI laptop processors have a new name, too

2024-06-02T23:00:00-04:00

AMD announced at Computex 2024 its next generation of Ryzen laptop processors for generative AI workloads: the Ryzen AI 300 Series. It's a re-brand of its top-tier Ryzen 9 chips. The new naming convention still includes the HX suffix AMD introduced in 2022, but it doesn't indicate how many watts of power the chip draws. Instead, HX will simply refer to "top of stack" or the best and fastest Ryzen AI 300 chip.

The new Ryzen AI chips are built on AMD's latest architectures for neural, integrated graphics, and general processing: XDNA2 for the NPU, RDNA 3.5 for the iGPU, which now has up to 16 compute units, and Zen 5 for the CPU. The first tw …

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