AMD has been the king of CPU socket longevity for a decade — and I'm relieved to see that the AM5 socket isn't going anywhere fast

AMD has promised to extend its AM5 CPU socket support through 2029, and it's no surprise based on AM4's longevity. [...]

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: Hitting NVIDIA where it hurts

AMD has finally done it. For years it's tried to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper, but less capable, video cards like the Radeon 6700 XT and 7900 XT. And sure, it's still following that [...]

CES 2026 proved the PC industry is hosed this year

Dell's XPS 14 now costs over $2,000. An AMD executive predicts that PC builders will likely make piecemeal upgrades this year, instead of building entirely new systems. And new AI supercomputers [...]

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: A no-compromise CPU for demanding gamers

How can we push CPUs forward? That's the question the computing industry has been asking since the Intel 4004 processor launched in 1971. Chipmakers have tried cranking up clock speeds, adding mu [...]

AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push

Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that cont [...]

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: Finally, a powerful $350 GPU

NVIDIA releases a brand new video card and AMD follows up with a cheaper one. That's basically been the cycle of the GPU industry for the last decade, with NVIDIA typically leading the pack and A [...]

AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 chip features an incredible 208MB of on-chip cache

AMD just revealed the Ryzen 9950X3D2 Dual Edition desktop processor, which is a beastly follow-up to last year's 9950X3D. This is the company's first desktop processor where both chiplets ha [...]

AMD's $549 Radeon 9070 and $599 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA's mid-range throne

AMD's decision to start off with mid-range RDNA 4 GPUs now seems prescient. NVIDIA's high-end RTX 5090 and 5080 are already selling well beyond their absurdly high prices, if you can find an [...]

AMD reveals a new AM4 CPU, a decade after the platform's launch – it’s the Skyrim of motherboard chipsets at this point

If you ever thought AMD would leave its AM4 chipset behind, you thought wrong, because it's still launching new processors for the platform almost 10 years after its launch. [...]