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AMD has released full pricing for its EPYC 9006 (Venice) server processor lineup, spanning 8 to 256 cores and ranging from $700 to $14,904. The SP7 platform tops the range with the 256-core EPYC 9996 at $14,904, while the 64-core EPYC 9556 starts the lineup at $8,008, according to a list obtained by StorageReview.
AMD stock rose nearly 13% last week and briefly topped a $1 trillion market cap before falling back below that level on Monday, with shares up almost 30% in September. CNBC's Jim Cramer attributed the surge partly to Meta's launch of its Muse AI agent platform, saying rising demand for AI agents should boost CPU sales, a market he says AMD leads.
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the startup founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, in a stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion, making it AMD's second-largest acquisition. World Labs builds 'world models' that simulate 3D physical environments for robotics and other embodied AI systems. Li will join AMD as chief scientist and executive vice president once the deal closes later this year, with World Labs operating separately from AMD's chip business until then.
A gaming guide outlines several ways to improve frames per second without buying new components, including lowering in-game graphics settings like texture quality and shadows, disabling motion blur and V-sync, and capping frame rate via NVIDIA or AMD software. It also recommends closing recording tools, keeping GPU drivers updated, and switching Windows 11's power plan to Best Performance mode.
AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI lab building 3D 'world models' founded by researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion. Li will join AMD as chief scientist and executive vice president, while World Labs will operate separately from AMD's chip business until the deal closes later this year.
AMD announced an $8.2 billion deal to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li that builds deep learning models focused on understanding physical reality. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, deepening a partnership the two companies formed last year around inference optimization and training.
AMD announced it will acquire World Labs in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. AMD said the acquisition brings in AI research and development talent to strengthen its hardware, software, and systems capabilities, particularly in physical AI and robotics.
World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by AMD, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2026 pending regulatory approval. Founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su, while co-founders Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall continue leading the World Labs team within AMD.
AMD announced an all-stock deal to acquire World Labs, the AI research startup co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, valuing the company at roughly $8.2 billion. World Labs, founded in 2024 and previously valued at $1 billion, released its Marble tool this year for generating interactive 3D worlds from text prompts. The deal is expected to close by year's end, with Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist under CEO Lisa Su.
GMKtec has launched the Evo-X5 Pro, an AI-focused mini-PC built around AMD's top-tier Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip paired with 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory. The 2TB SSD configuration costs $6,799, while the 4TB version reaches $7,099, with the chip's three power profiles ranging from 54W to 160W peak.
Microsoft launched its updated Surface Laptop and Surface Pro at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, powered by Snapdragon X2 Plus chips, without an AMD option. Surface CVP Brett Ostrum told Windows Central the company's limited device portfolio forces selective processor choices, while insisting Microsoft still values its AMD partnership.
An open-source GitHub project called DLSS-NR-on-AMD is reimplementing Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime to work on AMD Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 series cards, currently supporting DirectX 12 titles that use FSR, including Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced. Early builds saw frame rates collapse from over 80 FPS to around 11-12 FPS on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but successive alpha releases have delivered roughly 74% combined performance gains within 24 hours, and a new AMDNR launcher now automates installation.