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DigiTimes cites supply chain sources claiming Intel will raise CPU prices by another 10%, following earlier increases in Q1 2026 and July, likely hitting server and mobile chips first. The same report says Intel plans a major product launch in March 2027, with AMD responding with its own releases between June and July that year.
AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 will ship in two versions: an 8GB retail model and a 4GB variant reserved for OEM prebuilt PCs. Testers found the 4GB configuration echoes the widely criticized Radeon RX 6500 XT from 2022, struggling to run current games smoothly even years after that earlier card's flaws were exposed.
A modder known as ShyVox released 'DLSS Unlocked,' which merges the OptiScaler_DLSSNR and DLSS Enabler projects into one installer that adds DLSS 5 and multi-frame generation support to RTX 20-, 30-, and 40-series cards. On RTX 20 and 30 GPUs, AMD's FSR 3.1 handles frame interpolation since Nvidia's own pipeline isn't supported, while RTX 40 cards use Nvidia's DLSS-G for the first generated frame and FSR 3.1 for the rest, enabling up to 6x frame multiplication.
AMD engineers are increasing efforts to integrate the Rust programming language deeper into their GPU software, aiming to improve memory safety and reliability across drivers and related components. The move mirrors similar work at NVIDIA, which has been developing its own Rust-based Nova Linux kernel driver.
Supply-chain sources cited by DigiTimes say Intel is preparing to raise CPU prices by roughly 10% starting October 5, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan reviews pricing, manufacturing costs and the product lineup. The report also points to possible layoffs of 5-10% of Intel's global workforce and the discontinuation of lower-margin, lower-core chips used in industrial PCs, IoT and embedded systems.
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT has become the best-selling graphics card on Amazon, splitting the platform's top 10 evenly with Nvidia's RTX 50-series cards. In Germany, retailer Mindfactory reports AMD capturing nearly 56% of GPU sales versus Nvidia's 40%, with the RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 leading the pack.
AMD published results from experiments running speculative decoding in vLLM on its MI300X and MI355X Instinct GPUs using the ROCm software stack. The team compared five drafting approaches—native MTP, Gemma 4 MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, and DSpark—which differ in how draft tokens are generated and how they receive signals from the target model.
At IFA 2026, AMD introduced the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation combining a 96-core Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor with up to four Instinct MI350P accelerators. A fully configured system would offer 576GB of HBM3E memory, enough to run trillion-parameter AI models locally without cloud access. AMD showed a two-card version at the event but has not disclosed pricing, availability, or full specifications.
A FreeBSD enthusiast retired his older AMD-based Mini-ITX desktop, repurposing it for his kids, and built a replacement using a Ryzen 4750GE processor recovered from a shelved project. Rather than upgrading to a pricier AM5/DDR5 platform, he stuck with AM4 and DDR4 for cost efficiency, choosing a slightly larger Silverstone SG13 case over the older SG05 model.
Microsoft has launched Project Zenith, a stripped-down version of Windows 11 aimed at AI developers, requiring at least 64GB of unified memory and 250GB/s memory bandwidth. It will debut on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo hardware, a rival to Nvidia's DGX Spark, before expanding to other OEM devices, and ships preloaded with tools like VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Python, WSL, and .NET 10 already configured for coding.
The AMD BC-250 is a leftover PlayStation 5 APU that failed console binning standards and was instead sold on mining server boards built by ASRock. With mainstream GPU mining now unprofitable, these boards have flooded the secondhand market for roughly $70-$100, giving hobbyists a full single-board PC with 6 Zen 2 cores, 24 RDNA 2 compute units, and 16GB of shared GDDR6 memory.
According to leaker Roland Quandt, AMD is preparing a Ryzen 5 7500 without the 'F' suffix, matching the Ryzen 5 7500F's six-core, twelve-thread design, 3.7GHz base and 5.0GHz boost clocks, 38MB combined cache, and 65W TDP. The only real difference is a basic two-CU RDNA 2 integrated GPU suitable for display output but not gaming, yet the chip is rumored to launch at around 230 Euros ($267), more than double the 7500F's current street price.