AMD stories

AMD gears up to power new era of interactive media
Tue, 11th Apr 2023
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video
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ai
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streaming
The purpose-built video processing architecture features an AV1 accelerated pipeline, delivering 32x 1080p streams per card, with AI-enabled video quality optimisation.

Hands-on review: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Tue, 28th Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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AMD sent over one of its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.

Digital infrastructure to drive 49% of business revenue
Fri, 24th Feb 2023
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it infrastructure
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lenovo
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nz
With the rapid digital transformation in ANZ, organisations are expected to generate 49% of revenue from digitally connected products and services.

Digital infrastructure to drive 43% of business revenue
Thu, 23rd Feb 2023
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digital transformation
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lenovo
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amd
With the rapid digital transformation in APAC, organisations are expected to generate 43% of revenue from digitally connected products and services.

Lenovo launches servers powered by 4th Gen AMD processors
Thu, 17th Nov 2022
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digital transformation
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hpc
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servers
The new enterprise server solutions leverage 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors to deliver breakthrough performance, seamless management and better energy efficiency.

Hands-on review: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 9 7950X
Thu, 20th Oct 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
AMD has unleashed its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs based on the company’s 5nm Zen 4 architecture. We were sent a Ryzen 7 7700X and a Ryzen 9 7950X to test.

AMD introduces FSR 2.0 giving gaming GPUs a boost
Thu, 2nd Jun 2022
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gaming
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technology gifts
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hardware
Not only have AMD proudly announced their new line-up of Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards, but the company has also unveiled the first games to support its FSR 2.0 technology.

AMD acquires Pensando for $1.9B, builds out services platform
Thu, 7th Apr 2022
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cloud services
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enterprise
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amd
"With our acquisition of Pensando, we add a leading distributed services platform to our high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA and adaptive SoC portfolio."

Tencent partners cloud business with AMD to launch StarLake servers in Southeast Asia
Tue, 30th Nov 2021
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
Tencent's cloud business has recently announced a partnership with AMD, with the collaboration initiating the launch of StarLake servers powered by AMD EPYC processors in Southeast Asia.

AMD displays growing adoption in HPC at the Supercomputing Conference 2021
Fri, 19th Nov 2021
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hpc
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servers
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amd
AMD has showcased an expanded presence and growing preference in high-performance computing at this year's Supercomputing Conference 2021.

Hands-on review: PowerColor Red Devil AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate
Thu, 4th Nov 2021
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
As a card-carrying member of Team Green, can AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card convince Darren Price to switch to Team Red?

Hands-on review: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU
Mon, 6th Sep 2021
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
AMD introduces the baby of the bunch with the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card designed for gaming at 1080 HD resolution.

Smashing deals with Microsoft Windows and Ingram Micro
Tue, 8th Jun 2021
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microsoft
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intel
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samsung
Ingram Micro is back with more smashing tech deals to see your organisation through those cold winter days and nights ahead.

Hands-on review: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card
Fri, 21st May 2021
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
After years of worshipping at the altar of Nvidia’s team green, Darren Price may be starting to see red with AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU.

Lenovo DCG onboards AMD's new EPYC processors
Wed, 17th Mar 2021
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converged infrastructure
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servers
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amd
Lenovo's new servers and solutions contain AMD’s new EPYC 7003 processors, which were officially launched to market this week.

AMD unveils new EPYC processor for high performance computing
Tue, 16th Mar 2021
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hpc
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amd
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processors
AMD has today launched a new EPYC processor designed for the data center industry, cloud, and enterprise customers.

Hands-on review: AMD Radeon RX 6800
Mon, 1st Mar 2021
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
The AMD Radeon RX 6800 is a powerful GPU suitable for anyone looking for a video card to power their gaming rig.

IBM partners with AMD to collaborate on AI, HPC, and Confidential Computing
Mon, 16th Nov 2020
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hybrid cloud
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ai
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hp
IBM and AMD have announced a new multi-year joint development agreement in a bid to enhance and extend the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies.

HPE awarded $160 million contract to build supercomputer in Finland
Fri, 23rd Oct 2020
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servers
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amd
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hpe
The supercomputer, which is referred to as ‘LUMI’ by EuroHPC JU, will help European researchers and private and public organisations significantly advance R&D and drive innovation in areas such as healthcare, weather forecasting, and AI-enabled products.

HPE to build Pawsey’s newest supercomputer
Wed, 21st Oct 2020
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cloud services
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hyperscale
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public cloud
The new HPE Cray EX supercomputer will deliver 30x more compute power, enabling high-impact research projects on a previously unavailable scale

AMD releases Azure Data Explorer PaaS solution
Mon, 19th Oct 2020
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cloud services
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bi
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microsoft
The solution, created in tandem with Microsoft, can improve analytics workload performance by 30-50%, AMD claims.

New HCI solutions powered by AMD EPYC servers
Mon, 19th Oct 2020
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virtualisation
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converged infrastructure
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edge security
The new solutions from HPE, Dell and Lenovo DCG expand the ecosystem of AMD EPYC based cloud and virtualized solutions.

QNAP embeds AMD chip into new rackmount NAS
Mon, 5th Oct 2020
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nas
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qnap
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smb
TS-x73AU Rackmount NAS series includes AMD Ryzen embedded processors and 2.5GbE ports for virtualisation, hybrid-cloud Apps and 10GbE expandability.

Nutanix announces partner award winners
Mon, 21st Sep 2020
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converged infrastructure
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amd
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intel
Softbank C&S Japan took home the APAC Distributor of the Year award and Wipro was awarded Global System Integrator of year.