Category: threadripper

AMD CPUs for the past 9 years are vulnerable to data leak attacks

Post author By Randall
Post date March 8, 2020
Categories In amd, athlon 64 x2, cpu, data leak, exploit, gear, graz university of technology, Internet, personal computing, personalcomputing, processor, ryzen 7, Security, take a way, Tech, threadripper, vulnerability

[ad_1] Unlike some side channel attacks, it hasn’t taken long to show how these exploits would work in the real world. The team took advantage of the flaws using JavaScript in common browsers like Chrome and Firefox, not to mention virtual machines in the cloud. While Take A Way only dribbles out a small amount […]

Intel is losing against AMD

Post author By Randall
Post date November 28, 2019
Categories In amd, cpus, gear, i9-10980xe, i9-9980xe, Intel, personal computing, personalcomputing, processors, ryzen 9, Tech, threadripper, zen 2

[ad_1] A rapid rise Ever since AMD launched the Zen architecture just over three years ago, it has progressed at a relentless pace. At the time, Intel’s $1,100 8-core i7-6900 seemed like it had all the cores you’d ever need. However, AMD moved the goalposts, unveiling the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800 at a much lower […]

AMD’s 64-core Threadripper 3990X arrives in 2020

Post author By Randall
Post date November 26, 2019
Categories In 3960x, 3970x, 3990x, 64-core, amd, cpu, gear, personal computing, personalcomputing, preview, Tech, threadripper

[ad_1] The 3990X will likely be AMD’s workstation answer to its server-oriented EPYC 7742. As such, it’ll have eight chiplets with eight cores each, while the 24- and 32-core 3960X and 3970X CPUs we saw earlier have four chiplets with four and six cores, respectively. We still don’t know if the 3990X will have eight-channel […]

AMD delays 16-core Ryzen 9 CPU to November

Post author By Randall
Post date September 22, 2019
Categories In amd, cpu, Gaming, gear, personal computing, personalcomputing, processor, ryzen, ryzen 9, ryzen threadripper, Tech, threadripper

[ad_1] We hope you weren’t determined to build an all-out AMD gaming rig in September. AMD has delayed the release of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor by two months to sometime in November. The company wants to meet “strong demand” for the highly parallel CPU, the company said in a statement to AnandTech. In […]