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On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.

AMD's Lisa Su shows off the company's roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.

AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.

When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.

TYLsemi is set to offer pre-validated chiplets, along with custom ASIC design services, and build highly custom multi-tile processors at relatively low costs.

After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.

AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.

Data center projects are facing increasing opposition from surrounding communities, making consent even far scarcer than the chips and power needed to run these facilities. Any developer planning to construct one must now consider the people living around the proposed site and take account for the months or years needed to approve it, if it even gets the green light.

Save $150 on this gaming PC with Intel Core i5 14400F, Intel Arc B580, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

A modder by the name of Dryxio has built perhaps the most impressive mod in the history of Grand Theft Auto by combining three different GTA games into one, connected through real-time, fully functional portals.

The company is making adjustments to some existing pre-orders.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.

A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade to a newer model if payments are completed early.

Five tech giants have $1.65 trillion in data center obligations that are listed off their balance sheets. These liabilities are added as footnotes in their quarterly statements but will become due and payable once these data centers start operating.

Meta will reportedly use a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400-series accelerators with a memory system cut to 144GB of HBM4, allegedly for select workloads only.

The developers of the RPCS3 have announced that their PlayStation 3 emulator's minimum system requirements have been adjusted to include a crop of even older Radeon graphics cards. Now gamers still cradling ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPUs can join in the fun.

What started as a routine Costco grocery run ended with a heavily discounted display gaming PC, complete with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its gang escape from their cage and hack into HuggingFace's production servers - unprecedented incident raises eyebrows and pulses

China's Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services.

The Amazon site has suffered multiple hits since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran. The IRGC claims to have 'destroyed' AWB Bahrain, but the company has moved operations off the facility since early April.

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China's new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it's just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it's cheaper. But it's not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control.

The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.