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AMD gained market share in the years up to early 2023 mainly because its Zen CPUs became competitive with, and often faster than, Intel's at a lower price, while its fabless partnership with TSMC gave it earlier access to leading manufacturing nodes. Chiplet designs, a strong server roadmap with EPYC, console and cloud partnerships, and good reviews did the rest. The gains were largest in servers and desktop CPUs; in discrete PC graphics NVI…
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Murugavel Ganesan
February 16, 2023
Semiconductor Business
In early February 2023, AMD told investors it was deliberately shipping fewer client CPUs and GPUs than end customers were buying, a practice Lisa Su called "undershipping". The aim was to let excess inventory in the PC channel clear, and press coverage at the time read it as a way to stop prices falling while PC demand slumped. This post records that moment: what AMD and Intel reported for the fourth quarter of 2022, what undershippin…
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Murugavel Ganesan
February 07, 2023
Processors
In July 2020 AMD announced Ryzen Threadripper PRO, a workstation version of its Threadripper processors aimed squarely at Intel's Xeon workstation chips. It offered up to 64 cores together with the features professional buyers expect from a workstation part: eight memory channels with support for very large memory capacities, 128 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and platform security and manageability. Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 was announced as the f…
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Murugavel Ganesan
July 17, 2020
Processors
In May 2020 Linus Torvalds, the creator and lead maintainer of the Linux kernel, announced that his main desktop was no longer Intel-based for the first time in about 15 years. He had moved to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, a 32-core, 64-thread workstation processor, and said his kernel test builds were now about three times faster. This post, first written on 25 May 2020, covers what he said, what the chip is, and why a kernel developer cares…
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Murugavel Ganesan
May 25, 2020
Processors
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Murugavel Ganesan
September 14, 2011
Processors
The fury has really been unleashed over at AMD , as the cats in 2nd place take aim at the pocketbooks lowdown, dirty overclockers. Feeling like getting into it? Then you'll probably want to get your hands on the extra-special Phenom 9600 "Black Edition" quad-core processor, which allows brave souls to tweak (i.e., overclock) to their hearts content by utilizing the company's OverDrive utility. It's not all rainbows and uni…
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The Editor's Desk
December 20, 2007
