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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.