Neowin News Feed for: Apu

AMD reportedly preparing Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000G APUs for Q4 2025

Omer Dursun — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:08:01 +0000

AMD is reportedly preparing to launch its next-generation Ryzen 9000G desktop APUs later this year. These processors will offer significant upgrades over the current Ryzen 8000G lineup. Read more...

AMD is working on Threadripper and new APUs with 3D V-Cache

Taras Buria — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:48:01 +0000

AMD is reportedly planning to bring its signature 3D V-Cache to the next-gen APUs and Threadripper processors. Read more...

Next-gen AMD Ryzen APUs may have truly epic performance with 16 Zen 5, 40 RDNA 3.5 cores

Sayan Sen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:46:01 +0000

Recently, firmware and chipset support for AMD's next gen Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000) series processors were added. Now, a leak has revealed the alleged specifications of the next-gen Ryzen Strix Halo APUs. Read more...

AMD Mendocino Zen 2 APUs promise to offer powerful RDNA2 GPUs in budget laptops

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 23 May 2022 09:14:01 +0000

The AMD Mendocino APU is built on the 6nm node and packs ZEN 2 CPU cores, and RDNA 2 GPUs, with support for LPDDR5 RAM. The chipset would offer better computing and graphics for budget laptops. Read more...

Leaked AMD Zen and Navi APU could be powering the next-generation consoles

Faheemmuddeen Patel — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:20:01 +0000

A newly leaked AMD APU that has an octa-core processor based on the Zen+ or Zen 2 architecture and a 7nm Navi GPU could be powering the next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Read more...

AMD reveals a new APU with a bigger Vega GPU

Tim Moon — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:54:01 +0000

AMD is having a great success with Raven Ridge chips featuring a quad-core Ryzen and a small integrated Vega GPU. Now the Red Team revealed a new chip with an even bigger Vega GPU. Read more...

AMD brings its low-power Bristol Ridge processors to desktops, alongside AM4 socket

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:12:01 +0000

AMD has announced the availability of its new Bristol Ridge processors for desktops. The new chips offer better graphics and support for Ultra HD media, and run on the AM4 socket. Read more...

Rumor: AMD to supply chips for Nintendo's upcoming NX console

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:10:01 +0000

According to the latest credible rumor, AMD may have won itself a big contract, by building semi-custom chips for Nintendo's upcoming NX console. AMD also built the chips for the Xbox One and PS4. Read more...

Samsung, LG and Sony facing issues with overheating Snapdragon 810 causing delay

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:54:01 +0000

The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 AP which is expected to be used in at least three flagship phones in the first half of 2015, has hit a bump in the road due to overheating and speed decreases. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD A10-7800 Kaveri APU Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:18:07 +0000

AMD is releasing an update to its Kaveri family and we have the the $155 A10-7800 on hand, which comes in 45W or 65W TDP modes and has a full-blown R7 GPU featuring 8 CUs with 512 SPUs. Read more...

TechSpot's Budget CPU Roundup: AMD Kabini vs. Intel Bay Trail-D

Julio Franco — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:33:55 +0000

AMD brings upgradeability to the budget market with its new AM1 platform. We check out a bunch of their new APUs and compare them with competing chips from Intel to find the best budget pick for you. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Beema and Mullins Low-Power APU Preview

Julio Franco — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:44:07 +0000

Low power computing is an extremely important market for chipset and device manufacturers alike. ARM has already established itself in this area and their products and derivatives from manufacturers like Qualcomm are nearly universally found... Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Kaveri Dual Graphics Performance Test

Julio Franco — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:40:02 +0000

Currently Kaveri APUs can be paired with one of two discrete GPUs: the Radeon R7 240 and R7 250. Both are sub-$100 cards that when combined with AMD's on-die GPU could provide surprising results. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD A8-7600 APU review: Single chip PC gaming on a budget?

Julio Franco — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:55:17 +0000

AMD really is focused on gaming performance with Kaveri and believes this is where its latest APUs have a serious advantage over the competition. Read more...

AMD reveals embedded roadmap for new x86 processors and first ARM chips

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:34:50 +0000

AMD has announced its embedded processor roadmap plans for 2014, revealing details about its upcoming x86 APU chips as well as its first processors that will use an ARM design. Read more...

Rumor: AMD to end FX CPU lineup with the current 5 GHz FX-9590

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:38:57 +0000

A new rumor claims that AMD will end its long running FX CPU processor lineup, with the previously launched 5 GHz FX-9590 reportedly planned as the last CPU chip. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD A4-5000 review, the affordable ultraportable APU

Julio Franco — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:43:23 +0000

AMD are releasing their first Kabini based processors today with the launch of the A6-5200 and the A4-5000. The A4-5000 that we are reviewing features four Jaguar cores clocked at 1.5GHz... Read more...

TechSpot: Sapphire Edge VS8 review, the $500 Mini PC

Julio Franco — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:42:08 +0000

This idea of shrinking hardware hasn't been overlooked by manufacturers as several now feature space-saving designs based on mobile hardware. Such is the case with Sapphire's new Edge VS8 mini-PC... Read more...

AMD's Trinity APU overclocked to a whopping 7.3 GHz

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:50:42 +0000

One of AMD's new Trinity A10-5800K APUs has been overclocked to 7.3 GHz on two cores thanks to some liquid nitrogen cooling, with a 5.1 GHz overclock also achieved on just air cooling Read more...

TechSpot: AMD A8-3850 APU Llano Review

Julio Franco — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:47:07 +0000

Following in the footsteps of Brazos, AMD is now ready to unleash its bigger brother. Codenamed Llano, the new arrival resides in AMD's Lynx platform and packs four Husky cores (very similar to what's inside... Read more...

AMD Fusion aims to rule laptops; samples coming soon

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:49:39 +0000

It seemed like a dream of the distant future, but it looks like AMD is finally gearing up to release their highly anticipated AMD Fusion processor line. AnandTech has posted slides from AMD regarding their... Read more...