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AMD acquiring Xilinx for $35B

AMD is acquiring FPGA and programmable SoCs company Xilinx, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.

Intel 11th-gen Tiger Lake vs. AMD Ryzen 4000: Which chip will win — PCWorld

We can finally start making the odds on which chip will win: 11th-gen Tiger Lake or AMD Ryzen 4000; writes Gordon Mah Ung. Here is...

Traditional PC market continues to grow, says IDC

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, comprised of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 70.4 million units in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.

AMD is releasing its 7nm Ryzen 3000 CPUs on 7/7 — The Verge

The company is announcing five new processors as part of the lineup, writes Jon Porter. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/5/28/18642251/amd-ryzen-3000-cpus-3900x-3800x-3700x-3600x-3600-price-release-date-specs

U.S. Department of Energy awards Cray $600M supercomputer contract

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Cray a contract to build the 'Frontier' supercomputer at OakĀ  Ridge National Laboratory.