The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4(theverge.com)
262 points by 1potato | 273 comments
The Verge news article reporting that a RAM shortage is reviving DDR4, with Intel and AMD releasing new CPUs supporting older RAM, sockets, and chipsets.
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28 stories tagged amd, newest first.
World Labs is Joining AMD(worldlabs.ai)
283 points by mfiguiere | 111 comments
World Labs blog post announcing that the AI world-model company is joining AMD.
AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?(board.flatassembler.net)
235 points by BruceEel | 178 comments
Flat assembler forum thread reporting that RDRAND/RDSEED on AMD (possibly Zen2) CPUs never return 0 at a given size, with a test app for others to try.
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?(lemire.me)
466 points by ibobev | 190 comments
Daniel Lemire blog post examining how AMD Ryzen processors became about 50% faster over two years.
The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)(devquasar.com)
362 points by networked | 106 comments
A blog post about using the AMD BC-250, a repurposed mining board, as a roughly $60 gaming PC; the page returned a resource limit error.
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)
902 points by itvision | 681 comments
The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit(lttlabs.com)
370 points by LabsLucas | 244 comments
LTT Labs article reviewing the AMD Ryzen AI Halo, a roughly $4,000 AI developer kit mini PC.
Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?(adaptivesupport.amd.com)
328 points by zdw | 202 comments
AMD Adaptive SoC & FPGA support forum question asking why Vivado 2026.1 drops Linux support for the free tier.
Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU(lemonade-server.ai)
517 points by AbuAssar | 107 comments
Homepage for Lemonade, AMD's open source local LLM server that runs models on GPUs and NPUs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs(github.com)
428 points by rurban | 177 comments
GitHub repository for BarraCUDA, an open-source CUDA compiler written in C99 that compiles .cu files to AMD GFX11 GPU machine code.
The RCE that AMD won't fix(mrbruh.com)
343 points by MrBruh | 144 comments
Blog post describing a remote code execution vulnerability found by decompiling AMD's AutoUpdate software, which AMD declined to fix.
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux(heise.de)
785 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 437 comments
Heise news article reporting that the HDMI Forum still blocks an open-source HDMI 2.1 driver for Linux, preventing Valve and AMD from enabling it on the Steam Machine.
OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals(bloomberg.com)
337 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 234 comments
Bloomberg feature on how OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD and others form a web of circular investments fueling a $1 trillion AI market.
AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake(reuters.com)
387 points by chillax | 316 comments
Reuters article on AMD's AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI that gives OpenAI an option to take a 10% stake in AMD; the page loaded a captcha instead.
The Framework Desktop is a beast(world.hey.com)
415 points by lemonberry | 388 comments
David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post reviewing the Framework Desktop after months of use, praising its quietness, small size, and performance.
AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more(bloomberg.com)
389 points by mfiguiere | 684 comments
Bloomberg article reporting AMD CEO Lisa Su's view that chips made at TSMC's US plant will cost 5% to 20% more than those made in Taiwan.
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs(nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
723 points by fanf2 | 194 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author traced and helped fix an amdgpu driver bug causing Linux sleep-wake hangs, with the fix landing in kernel 6.14.
Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
371 points by hasheddan | 237 comments
Bryan Cantrill's blog post arguing that Pat Gelsinger was the wrong CEO for Intel, drawing on Oxide's experience choosing a host CPU.
AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space(tomshardware.com)
426 points by baal80spam | 140 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that AMD's datacenter sales surpassed Intel's for the first time, though both trail Nvidia's AI GPU sales.
Using an 8K TV as a Monitor(daniel.lawrence.lu)
498 points by ingve | 489 comments
A personal blog post on using an 8K TV as a computer monitor, covering its pros, cons, image quality and Linux driver issues, example devices, and an FAQ.
Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs(docs.scale-lang.com)
1251 points by Straw | 382 comments
Documentation for SCALE by Spectral Compute, a GPGPU toolkit that compiles unmodified CUDA applications natively for AMD GPUs.
AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M(ft.com)
463 points by helsinkiandrew | 257 comments
Financial Times article on AMD agreeing to buy Finnish AI start-up Silo AI for $665mn to compete with Nvidia, shown behind a subscription paywall.
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards(ollama.com)
578 points by tosh | 194 comments
Ollama blog post from March 14, 2024 announcing preview support for running models on AMD graphics cards.
Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs(github.com)
404 points by alexzeitler | 71 comments
GitHub repository for nvtop, an ncurses-based GPU and accelerator process monitor for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm.
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs(cgchannel.com)
357 points by drakerossman | 133 comments
CG Channel news article about ZLUDA, an open-source project that lets unmodified CUDA applications run on AMD GPUs.
AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source(phoronix.com)
945 points by mfiguiere | 360 comments
Phoronix article reporting that AMD quietly funded ZLUDA, a drop-in CUDA implementation running on ROCm, which has now been released as open source.
How do I become a graphics programmer?(gpuopen.com)
343 points by pjmlp | 159 comments
AMD GPUOpen blog post from the AMD Game Engineering team offering a beginner's guide to becoming a graphics programmer.
AMD may get across the CUDA moat(hpcwire.com)
498 points by danzheng | 266 comments
HPCwire article by Doug Eadline discussing how AMD's Instinct GPUs and software stack might overcome Nvidia's CUDA software lock-in for GenAI workloads.