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AMD Ryzen Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Jan 12, 2021

AMD’s CES keynote is a disclosure own goal

CES2021: Good products, drip feeds, and teasers aplenty

AMD has once again snatched mediocrity from the jaws of victory with it’s 2021 CES disclosures.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 11, 2021
1

Intel has a blizzard of offerings at CES 2021

CES 2021: vPro, 8-core Tiger, Atoms, and much much more

Intel had a lot to talk about at CES with no less than 4 new product lines across consumer and enterprise.
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AMD Ryzen Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Nov 7, 2020
1

A long look at AMD’s Zen 3 core and chips

Ryzen 5000 takes the lead everywhere

It has been a long time since SemiAccurate used a CPU that felt significantly faster than the last one.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 29, 2020
3

Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake

Rant: How desperate are they for short term headlines?

Intel is desperate for positive news and they are doing the usual last-minute games to try and spin hard.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2020

How did AMD take the lead in GPU performance

Steps, missteps, architecture, process, and culture

So AMD just took the lead in GPU performance with their Radeon 6000 series, how did they do it?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2020

AMD Radeon 6000 series takes the GPU crown

Radeon 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT announced today

Today AMD jumps back into graphics performance leadership with their Radeon 6900XT GPU.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2020

AMD teases Radeon 6000 performance

Big grain of salt due to disclosure problems

Today AMD is teasing their upcoming Radeon 6000 GPU performance with a single picture.
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AMD Ryzen Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2020
1

AMD somewhat discloses the Ryzen 5000 series

The best got better in a vague way

Today AMD is teasing their Ryzen 5000 line of CPUs which should beat Intel at everything all the time.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 22, 2020
1

AMD adds a line of CPUs only for Chromebooks

Not actually new unless you count a letter change

Today AMD is launching five new Chromebook CPUs and their C-series line of SoCs, but ‘new’ is a bit of a stretch.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 13, 2020

Intel Architecture Day 2020 selected slides

Not enough time to do a good job

Intel had their 2020 Architecture Day on Tuesday and it was packed with great info.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 10, 2020

Why is AMD’s APU IP a generation behind?

Someone really thought this idea through

AMD has historically been behind a generation of core IP for it’s APUs, why?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 21, 2020

AMD launches desktop Ryzen 4000G/GE/Pro

Take the mobile out of Ryzen 4000 mobile…

Today AMD is releasing the desktop version of their Ryzen 4000 APUs in both normal and Pro versions.
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2015 AMD Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Jul 15, 2020
1

AMD releases 8-channel Threadripper 3 Pro

Just like we said, just not when we said

AMD just took their commanding lead in the workstation market and expanded it with the new Threadripper Pro.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 7, 2020

AMD updates Ryzen 3000 to Ryzen 3000XT

Better binning but not much more

Today AMD is letting us talk details about the Ryzen 3000XT CPU updates.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 10, 2020

Intel launches the Lakefield SoC

No questions before is a subtle hint

Intel is finally launching Lakefield today but doing so in a curious manner.
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