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AMD's glass-fronted Santa Clara headquarters behind ornamental grasses, with the AMD sign on a low monument by the sidewalk
Hardware·

One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second

Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.

AMD launch slide reading 'Launching AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs' with a data-center photo and specs: CDNA 5, 2nm process node, HBM4, FP4/FP6/FP8, 320B transistors
Hardware·

AMD's Helios rack packs 72 GPUs and 31TB of memory to take on Nvidia

AMD launched the Instinct MI455X and its Helios rack-scale system, tying 72 GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 into one machine to challenge Nvidia's data-center grip.

Valve's Steam Machine, a small black cube console, sits on a wooden cabinet beside a fishbowl in a living room.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine is back after 14 years, and reviewers are split on the price

Valve's Steam Machine is a tiny, silent SteamOS console that starts at $1,049. The hardware impresses, the value doesn't, and here's who should actually buy one.

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop processor, the consumer chip generation affected by the memory-encryption change.
Security·

AMD stripped memory encryption from your Ryzen, then put it back after the backlash

AMD quietly dropped RAM encryption from consumer Ryzen 9000 chips in a firmware update. A Linux hobbyist caught it, the community revolted, and AMD is reinstating it in July.

Valve's Steam Machine, a small cube-shaped living-room PC console, shown in its product render.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine starts at $1,049, not the $750 it planned. The RAM shortage ate the difference.

Valve's living-room console launches at $1,049 to $1,428. Here's what's inside, why the price ballooned, and how SteamOS lets you skip the hardware entirely.

An Adapteva Parallella development board with an AMD/Xilinx Zynq FPGA SoC, representative of the hobbyist hardware the Vivado free tier targets.
Hardware·

AMD walled off Linux Vivado behind a paid tier. The free FPGA tier is now Windows only.

Vivado 2026.1 introduces a five-tier licensing model. The free BASIC tier supports Windows only; Linux requires the paid CORE tier. FPGA hobbyists are pushing back.

AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage at CES 2026, presenting AI accelerator products
Hardware·

AMD's data center revenue jumped 57% to $5.8 billion in Q1. Its stock closed up 18%.

AMD reported Q1 revenue of $10.25B, up 38% YoY. Data center hit $5.8B (+57%) and Q2 guidance midpoint of $11.2B beat consensus by roughly $700M.

Render of an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 'Gorgon Halo' APU package, surrounded by labels for the Radeon 8065S integrated GPU and the chip's memory configuration.
Hardware·

AMD's 'Gorgon Halo' refresh leaks with 192GB memory. Strix Halo tops out at 128GB.

A leaked Geekbench listing puts AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 495 on a 192GB platform with a Radeon 8065S iGPU. The Strix Halo chip it replaces capped at 128GB.

AMD EPYC server processor in cinematic studio lighting.
Hardware·

AMD Zen 7 'Florence' leak: 288 cores, a separate cache die, and a 25% IPC swing

Leaked slides describe Zen 7 EPYC scaling to 288 cores per socket, with all L3 moved off the CCD onto a stacked cache die. Tape-out is October 2026, launch late 2028.