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The new Zenbook S 13 is a very good subnotebook with AMD's latest Ryzen 7 6800U mobile processor. Our review reveals clear advantages over Intel's current 12th Gen. Alder Lake lineup.

Dell has begun selling the Inspiron 14 2-in-1 in AMD Barcelo and Intel Alder Lake flavours. Billed as the Inspiron 14 7425 and Inspiron 14 7420 respectively, the pair feature plenty of ports and a 14-inch touchscreen display.

AMD's H.264 hardware encoder is finally almost on par with the Nvidia and Intel hardware video codecs. Sadly, none of the popular streaming suites supports the latest AMF version.

Dell has presented the Inspiron 14 5425, a 14-inch laptop powered by AMD Barcelo APUs, up to 16 GB of RAM and a 54 Wh battery. Orderable for US$899.99, the Inspiron 14 5425 has a 1200p display, up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.

The latest KDE models from Slimbook ditch the Ryzen 7 4800H processors for the more efficient 5700U ones, which support up to 64 GB of RAM and up to 4 TB of SSD storage. Prices start at just under €1,000.

AYA NEO has shown off the SLIDE, a gaming handheld that it unveiled in May. With a design resembling the GPD Win 3, the AYA NEO SLIDE should be available later this year with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU and a Radeon 680M iGPU.

AYN Technologies has unveiled the LOKI Zero, a 6-inch gaming handheld that retails for US$199. Equipped with an AMD Athlon Silver 3050e APU, the LOKI Zero also has DDR4 RAM, a 40.5 Wh battery and an optional NVMe SSD.

As we move closer and closer to the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 7000 series boards, new information regarding the cards keeps on surfacing. Paul from RedGamingTech has now gotten his hands on an AMD patent that describes how a graphics card with multiple GPU chiplets might work.

GPD has announced a new Indiegogo campaign for its upcoming handheld, the GPD Win Max 2. One can choose between an Intel Core i7-1260p and an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor. Prices start at US$999 for the former and US$899 for the latter.

AOKZOE has outlined more details about the A1, which will ship with the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U. Soon to be available in Standard and Ultimate Editions, the AOKZOE A1 will offer up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X-6400 RAM and a 65 Wh battery, among other features.

Anbernic has outlined more details about the Win600, a gaming handheld designed to run Steam OS or Windows 10. The Anbernic Win600 will be available with AMD Athlon 3000e APUs, a Radeon RX Vega 3 iGPU and 8 GB of RAM. All configurations feature 8 GB of RAM, a 39 Wh battery and a 5.94-inch display too.

With the growing inflation and the uncertainties brought by the Ukrainian war, Smartphones and PC components are not selling that well anymore, so Apple, AMD and Nvidia are now forced to scale back their chip orders from TSMC, which, in turn, might not see soaring revenues as previously projected in early 2022.

MSI has released a beta BIOS update that aims to get extra performance out of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The BIOS update brings two new features, a "Kombo Strike" utility and a "Core Offset Voltage" option, on supported motherboards. The update hopes to make AMD's already-great gaming CPU even better.

Apart from the Ryzen 7 5700U APU that can be set to run at 35 W and an improved display, the new 2022 Via 15 Pro ultrabook features upgradable RAM slots that support up to 64 GB capacities, plus users can upgrade the M.2 SSD storage, as well.

AMD recently revealed it would make its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-series available for DIY builders at some point in the near future while also announcing that the PRO and non-PRO lines would simply merge into a single PRO line. However, the prohibitive prices of the Threadripper PRO 5995WX, 5975WX, and 5965WX will leave the Zen 3 parts out of many hands.

AYA NEO has revealed the NEXT 2, a gaming handheld that will be available with Intel and AMD processors. While the latter will feature RDNA 2-based iGPUs, AYA NEO plans to offer the former with dedicated GPU options from the Intel Arc Graphics family. AYA NEO has drawn heavily from the design of the Steam Deck too.

Even though FSR 2.0 is almost as good as Nvidia's DLSS, AMD might be looking to add AI-enabled hardware processing in the upcoming RDNA3 GPUs, as suggested by the addition of Wave Matrix Multiply-Accumulate algorithms in the latest Linux patches for the Radeon RX 7000 GPU series.

Between bright OLED displays and powerful processor platforms, Apple's refreshed M2 MacBook Pro 13 doesn't bring all that much to the table in terms of upgrades. Is the stale design worth living with for the convenience of macOS? If not, which Windows laptops should you spring for instead?

Lenovo has refreshed the ThinkBook 13s, having presented an Intel Alder Lake-powered model in February at MWC 2022. This time, the company has given the ThinkBook 13s a taste of the Ryzen 6000 architecture, with RDNA 2-based iGPUs. The inclusion of Ryzen 6000 APUs in the ThinkBook 13s should give it a few advantages over its Intel counterpart too.

AMD Dragon Range and Phoenix APUs are Team Red's next-gen processors that will feature a Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA3 GPU. Courtesy of RedGamingTech, we now have a lot of details about the upcoming APUs, including possible SKUs with core counts, clock speeds, and iGPU specs.

The reasonably specced Ryzen Edition of Dell's 15-inch gaming laptop is a good choice for budget-conscious gamers who are still looking for a new and portable notebook in the sub-US$800 category. Considering its currently discounted sale price, the Dell G15 with an AMD Ryzen 7 and RTX 3050 Ti certainly provides a lot of value at a quite affordable price.

AMD has made the source code of FSR 2.0 available to everyone. Anyone can now download and use FSR 2.0 to implement Team Red’s state-of-the-art temporal upscaling solution in their games. In an article published on GPUOpen, AMD has also elaborated on why FSR 2.0 doesn’t use Machine Learning.

Schenker combines a socketed Ryzen 9-5900X CPU with a GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. This results in a powerful laptop that strikes a good figure in scenarios that demand a lot of performance, be it gaming, video processing, or rendering. However, potential buyers shouldn't require a good battery life, quiet operation, or lower power consumption.

Competition on the Chinese handheld console market is getting fierce as yet another maker presents its large-screen model. AOKZOE's console is powered by a Ryzen 7 6800U with Radeon 680M iGPU and it looks to handle popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Forza Horizon 5 quite well even at high video presets running in 1920 x 1200.

AYA NEO has teased the AYA NEO FLIP, a fifth gaming handheld it hopes to launch in Q4 2022. Joining the AYA NEO 2, AYA NEO 2 GEEK, AYA NEO SLIDE and the AYA NEO AIR Plus, the AYA NEO FLIP will launch with a design reminiscent of a Nintendo DS. Unsurprisingly, AYA NEO will equip the device with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU and a 7-inch display.

GPD has announced what memory configuration in which it will offer the Win Max 2. Starting with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, the Win Max 2 will be orderable next month in 12 SKUs, including several LTE versions. Pricing remains unknown at this stage, though.

CPU architect legend Jim Keller opined that AMD was stupid to cancel the K12 Core CPU. The K12 Core was designed by Keller, who was also the brains behind the Zen architecture, as a 64-bit ARMv8 platform that was originally slated for a 2017 launch. AMD canceled K12 Core and instead focused its resources on expanding Zen to various market segments.

Huawei has introduced the MateStation X in the UK, nearly four months after its European introduction at MWC 2022 in Barcelona. Only available in one configuration, the MateStation X combines Huawei's MateView display with a powerful 45 W APU.

The Navi 3x in question is supposed to feature a dual-GCD design with 16384 Stream Processors, which is a considerable upgrade over the Navi 31 rumored to feature a single-GCD design with 12288 SP. According to some sources, this might be a professional workstation GPU.

Highlights for the new Embedded R2000 series include up to 4 Zen+ cores with 8 threads, support for dual-channel DDR4-3200 and 16 PCIe Gen 3 lanes, and up to an 8 CU iGPU that can easily handle 4x 4K video outputs.

AMD has announced that its newest Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX, 5975WX and 5965WX processors will be available to system integrators in July 2022. DIY builders will also be able to purchase said CPUs later in the year.

3DCenter has published another of its 3-week analysis reports of the GPU market in Europe. According to the latest entry, the average price of an AMD GPU has dropped 8% below MSRP for the first time. Nvidia boards, while not under MSRP yet, have also witnessed a sharp price decline.

New AMD Ryzen 7000 leaks have detailed the potential launch line-up for the upcoming Zen 4 desktop parts, a possible release date, and even a supposed price tag for the top-end Ryzen 9 7950X. It seems there won’t be an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X at launch time, with the series arguably emulating the Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 staggered release schedule.

The "Little Phoenix" is rumored to launch in late 2023 with Steam's second gen Deck handheld console. Apparently, it is a cut-down version of the "Phoenix" laptop processor that is scheduled to launch in early 2023, and the four Zen 4 cores with 8 threads plus the RDNA3 GPU it integrates should bring at least 50% improvements over the Van Gogh Zen 2 + RDNA2 version from Deck 1.

An AMD Ryzen 3 7320U, which in all probability is the new Mendocino APU announced at Computex 2022, has surfaced on UserBenchmark. The Ryzen 3 7320U features an RDNA 2-based iGPU with two CUs. The preliminary UserBenchmark score seems to indicate improved multi-core performance with the 6 nm Zen 2 cores when compared with an average Ryzen 3 5300U.

Meizu has launched the PANDAER x AYANEO in collaboration with AYA NEO. Effectively a custom version of the AYA NEO AIR Pro, the PANDAER x AYANEO has an OLED display, a Ryzen 5 5560U APU with Zen 3 CPU cores and weighs just 410 g.

Twitter leaker Greymon55 has heard from reliable sources that AMD could unveil the first Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card sometime between late October and November 2022. It is roughly around when the Ryzen 7000 series of processors will be unveiled, along with Intel's 13th-generation Raptor Lake CPUs and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs.

AMD has shared a lot of details about its upcoming CPUs and GPUs at the Financial Analyst Day 2022. The company revealed that the next-generation Zen 4 architecture will bring more than 25% improvement in performance-per-watt. Similarly, the Radeon RX 7000 "Raphael" cards is also set to offer a double-digit increase in efficiency.

Aside from the North America exclusive ThinkBook 16p NX, Lenovo is also releasing a real successor to the ThinkBook 16p G2: The ThinkBook 16p G3. Different from the NX model, this one does not downgrade the specifications and it contains a 165 Hz screen as the biggest optional upgrade.

Quietly, Lenovo is announcing a new 16 inch ThinkBook: The ThinkBook 16p NX seems to be a North America exclusive follow up to the ThinkBook 16p G2. It replaces Ryzen 5000H with Ryzen 6000H, but downgrades the GPU to the weaker Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti instead of the RTX 3060 of the predecessor.

Dihara Wijetunga, a senior R&D engineer at AMD, recently announced Wolf PT, a mod that adds a full DX12 path-tracing renderer to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Wijetunga shared screenshots that showcase dramatic improvements to lighting in the aging id Tech 3 game.

Dell has unveiled its new Precision 7865 Tower that packs enough power to satisfy creators, engineers, and future imperial senate dissolvers anywhere. The Dell Precision 7865 Tower features AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000WX processors and can provide up to 56 TB storage, more than enough for containing complex workloads and Death Star blueprints.

Seasonic has revealed possible details about the top three graphics cards in AMD's Radeon RX 7000 product stack. All due later this year, the trio could match their predecessor's power requirements and without resorting to the new 16-pin power connector.

Sapphire has made the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon 6700 official. Based on the midrange Navi 22 GPU, the Sapphire AMD Radeon 6700 is a cut-down version of the RX 6700 XT with reduced base and boost frequencies, fewer Stream Processors, and less VRAM. The card is also less power-hungry than its bigger sibling.

The new Dev One is a budget-oriented solution running on the Linux-based Pop!_OS developed by System76. It is powered by AMD's Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U APU with Vega 8 iGPU, and comes with one (upgradable) configuration featuring 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB NVMe SSD. The 1080p 14-inch screen is HDR-ready with 1,000 nit brightness.