A new hardware vulnerability bypassing previous Spectre and Meltdown protections has been found by Bitdefender researchers, CNET sister site ZDNet reported Tuesday. It affects all Windows systems with AMD or Intel processors since 2012 and can access protected memory. Spectre and Meltdown are vulnerabilities uncovered in the chips that handle sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys. …
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The battle rages on. A week before AMD was scheduled to deliver the details about its new Navi-generation midrange graphics cards, the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT, rival Nvidia announced bumped-up “Super” versions of its directly competing RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 at slightly lower prices than AMD had publicly revealed for its new cards. So two days …
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You can never have too many overlays — that’s got to be someone’s motto. At least Nvidia’s made one that seems pretty useful for trying to figure out why your $800 graphics card is more spud than speed demon. The company’s new FrameView utility could help answer some other questions too: Why cut scenes are rendering as if half the …
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Dell is slinging some deals on its high-end laptops that make them more approachable. If you’ve been pining for a huge, high-power gaming laptop, there are discounts worth investigating on Dell’s site for two of its own Dell-branded units along with an Alienware model. All three are large, 15-inch laptops. There’s also a discounted Alienware desktop if you want more …
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AMD closed its Computex announcements with a “one last thing” reveal of a 12-core CPU, the Ryzen 7 3900X. Just a few weeks later at its E3 press conference, AMD one-last-thinged us again. This time it one-upped itself with a 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X desktop CPU slated to ship in September for $749. The company also delivered the promised pricing, specifications …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. When Apple introduced the new Mac Pro at WWDC Monday, it announced the price of the entry-level configuration: $5,999. And yes, that’s a lot of money to spend on a computer. But it’s peanuts next to what we expect the most premium configuration to …
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Samsung and AMD are teaming up to develop mobile graphics using AMD’s Radeon GPU technology. The multi-year partnership will see the two develop “advanced graphics technologies and solutions,” the companies said Monday. The graphics systems will be high-performance and ultra-low power, and aimed at mobile devices including smartphones. Radeon graphics are already being used across PC, console, cloud and high-performance …
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AMD turned 50 this year, and it’s celebrating the old-fashioned way: By drastically improving its processor architecture. At Computex 2019, the chipmaker announced a slew of new processor units, both central and graphics, running its new 7nm architecture. On the CPU side is the Zen 2 range, while the GPUs fall under the new Navi umbrella. The “one last thing” …
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Acer is beefing up a pair of its notebook lines with new chip muscle. The computer maker said Wednesday that the Nitro 5 and Swift 3 notebooks would be powered by the second generation of AMD’s Ryzen mobile processor. The announcement comes a week before the start of the Computex tech show in Taiwan. The Nitro 5 — a notebook …
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Lenovo’s bringing its AMD-based ThinkPad laptops out of A-series exile and rolling them into its main X- and T-series, indicated by “5” in the model number. The first models welcomed into the stable: The Thinkpad T495, T495s and X395, variations on the Intel-based T490, T490s and X390 introduced at MWC in February 2019. The new models incorporate second-generation Ryzen Pro …
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