Chip designer AMD has rejected a market analysis that estimates that the company now accounts for 20 percent of the video card sales for cryptocurrency mining because this statement had put the stock price under pressure.
In 1998, Intel and Real 3D co-developed their own first, also the “last” a discrete graphics card – i740. Because its 3D graphics performance has a good performance, i740 was introduced, and a lot of users and graphics card manufacturers still recognize it. Now, Intel has rekindled its interest in discrete GPU.
Now the chip manufacturer AMD will have to explain in a court, why numerous users were supplied with unsafe processors.There are now several lawsuits pending against the company in the United States.They were filed because of the security vulnerability Spectre, which became a hot subject at the beginning of the year.
The new Ryzen 2000 processors can be operated in many motherboards only after a BIOS update.To perform this update, an older CPU is needed.The manufacturer AMD has now begun to send free loan processors.
With a new combination of processor and graphics chip, the semiconductor group Intel intends to advance the provision of a compact, yet powerful computer. In November, the integration of AMD’s Vega GPUs was already announced, then they jabbered themselves and now the complete lineup will be shown at CES.
Graz University of Technology, which was instrumental in the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, answers the most important questions about the two gaps.These gaps were discovered by a ten-member international research group with central participation of the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication Technology of the Graz University of Technology.
Yesterday, a serious design hole in Intel processors became known.Initially, much was based on speculation, but now it is becoming increasingly clear that not only Intel is affected, but also AMD and ARM, as it is more than a gap.Microsoft has released a first emergency security patch. The bugs are called Meltdown and Spectre.
A new security hole is currently being talked about that should affect Intel, AMD and ARM chipsets alike.Microsoft will react to this with an emergency patch and, according to new information, is about to start distributing the important updates shortly.
The enormous developments in the Chinese IT sector could also lead to a third competitor in x86 processors after many years.For a long time, Intel was almost alone on the floor and has only recently been put under pressure by AMD.But now also a company called Zhaoxin wants to get involved.
If you have not been able to get your favorite products yet, you can wait a bit for the purchase of a new Ryzen processor.Because in February AMD wants to bring the next generation on the market, which was developed under the code name Pinnacle Ridge and should bring some improvements.