During their opening keynote at Computex 2024, AMD announced their intention to launch a pair of new Ryzen 5000 processors for their legacy AM4 platform. The new chips, both getting the XT suffix, will be the Ryzen 9 5900XT, a 16 core Zen 3 part, while the Ryzen 7 5800XT will be an 8 core Zen 3.

The new chips are intended to underscore AMD's ongoing commitment to supporting their consumer platforms over several years. And while the specification changes are rather minor overall – the Zen 3 CPU architecture has long since been taken as far as it can reasonable go – it does give AMD a chance to refresh the platform by slinging hardware at new price points. AMD did something very similar for the Ryzen 3000 generation with the late-model Ryzen 3000 XT chips.

AMD Ryzen 5000XT Series Processors (Zen 3)
AnandTech	Cores / Threads	Base Freq	Turbo Freq	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	TDP
Ryzen 9 5950X	16C / 32T	3.4 GHz	4.9 GHz	8 MB	64 MB	105 W
Ryzen 9 5900XT	16C / 32T	TBC	4.8 GHz	8 MB	64 MB	105 W
Ryzen 7 5800XT	12C / 24T	TBC	4.8 GHz	6 MB	32 MB	105 W
Ryzen 7 5800X	12C / 24T	3.8 GHz	4.7 GHz	6 MB	32 MB	105 W

We've dedicated many column inches covering Zen 3 and the Ryzen 5000 series since they launched in late 2020, so there isn't anything new to add here. Zen 3 is no longer AMD's latest and greatest, but the platform as a whole is quite cheap to produce, making it a viable budget offering for new builds, or offering one last upgrade for old builds.

The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16 core part, and isn't to be confused with the Ryzen 9 5900X, which is a 12 core part. It ships with a peak turbo clockspeed of 4.8GHz, 100 MHz lower than the top-tier Ryzen 9 5950X. This makes it's XT designation somewhat of a misnomer compared to previous generations of XT chips, although it's clear that AMD has boxed themselves into a corner with their naming scheme, as they both need a way to designate that this is a new chip, and yet still place it below the 5950X.

Looking at the second chip, we have the Ryzen 7 5800XT. This is an 8 core part that does improve on its predecessor, offering a 4.8GHz max turbo clock that is 100MHz higher than the Ryzen 7 5800X's. Both chips otherwise share the same characteristics, including 6 MB of L2 cache and 32 MB of L3 cache, and all four of the chips – including the two new XT series and the corresponding X series chips – all come with a 105 Watt TDP.

In terms of motherboard compatibility, all of the AM4 motherboards that currently support the Ryzen 5000 series are also compatible with the Ryzen 5000XT series, although users are likely to need to perform a firmware update to ensure maximum compatibility; they are the same chips, but the microcodes are likely different.

AMD has provided some gaming performance figures comparing the Ryzen 9 5900XT to Intel's 13th Gen Core i7-13700K. It does offer very modest yet marginal gains in games by up to 4%; it's not mind-blowing, but the price could be the decisive factor here.

Regarding price, AMD hasn't disclosed anything official yet ahead of the expected launch of the Ryzen 5000XT series chips in July. It's hard to make a case for a pair of chips to be considered a fully-fledged series, but it does open up the doors for AMD to perhaps launch more 5000XT series chips in the future.

In a packed presentation kicking off this year’s Computex trade show, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su spent plenty of time focusing on the subject of AI. And while the bulk of that focus was on AMD’s impending client products, the company is also currently enjoying the rapid growth of their Instinct lineup of accelerators, with the MI300 continuing to break sales projections and growth records quarter after quarter. It’s no surprise then that AMD is looking to move quickly then in the AI accelerator space, both to capitalize on the market opportunities amidst the current AI mania, as well as to stay competitive with the many chipmakers large and small who are also trying to stake a claim in the space.

To that end, as part of this evening’s announcements, AMD laid out their roadmap for their Instinct product lineup for both the short and long term, with new products and new architectures in development to carry AMD through 2026 and beyond.

On the product side of matters, AMD is announcing a new Instinct accelerator, the HBM3E-equiipped MI325X. Based on the same computational silicon as the company’s MI300X accelerator, the MI325X swaps out HBM3 memory for faster and denser HBM3E, allowing AMD to produce accelerators with up to 288GB of memory, and local memory bandwidths hitting 6TB/second.

Meanwhile, AMD also showcased their first new CDNA architecture/Instinct product roadmap in two years, laying out their plans through 2026. Over the next two years AMD will be moving very quickly indeed, launching two new CDNA architectures and associated Instinct products in 2025 and 2026, respectively. The CDNA 4-powered MI350 series will be released in 2025, and that will be followed up by the even more ambitious MI400 series in 2026, which will be based on the CDNA "Next" architecture.

During AMD's opening keynote at Computex 2024, company CEO Dr. Lisa Su revealed AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip lineup for the mobile market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. Based on AMD's new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture, the Ryzen AI 300 series – codenamed Strix Point – is intended to offer an across-the-board improvement in mobile SoC performance, with AMD proclaiming that the Ryzen AI 300 series will offer the fastest AI inference performance within the compact and portable PC market.

Under the hood, the new mobile SoC from AMD incorporates not only their new Zen 5 CPU architecture, but also their new RDNA 3.5-based integrated graphics, and the third generation XDNA2-based NPU, the latter of which is rated to deliver 50 TOPS of performance for AI-based workloads. As a result, the Ryzen AI 300 series represents a significant upgrade in AMD's mobile chip lineup, with all of the major aspects of the platform receiving a major upgrade versus their Zen 4-era Phoenix/Hawk Point SoCs. The one thing the new platform won't get, however, is a process node improvement; AMD is building Strix Point on a 4nm node, just like Phoenix/Hawk Point before it.

For this morning's announcement, AMD has unveiled the first two Ryzen AI 300 SKUs designed for notebooks. The first of these is the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which features 12 Zen 5 cores with a maximum boost frequency of up to 5.1 GHz, and comes equipped with 36 MB cache (12 MB L2 + 24 MB L3). The other chip to be announced is the Ryzen AI 9 365, which has two fewer Zen 5 cores (10 cores) and operates with a 5,0 GHz boost frequency and a 10 MB L2 + 24 MB L3 cache allocation.

The PC scene is really heating up. With Arm-based processors from Qualcomm and Apple offering stark competition against the conventional x86-64 world, and with AI being such a focus of so many players, we've got hybrid machines with three, four, or five different types of processors on board and all sorts of hardware tricks. In that context,

During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors. Today marks the first unveiling of AMD's highly anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture via the Ryzen 9000 series, which is set to bring several advancements over Zen 4 and the Ryzen 7000 series for desktop PCs, which will launch sometime in July 2024.

AMD has unveiled four new chip SKUs using its Zen 5 microarchitecture. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor will be the new consumer flagship part, featuring 16 CPU cores and a speedy 5.7 GHz maximum boost frequency. The other SKUs include, 6, 8, and 12 core parts, giving users a varied combination of core and thread counts. All four of these initial chips will be X-series chips, meaning they will have an unlocked multipliers and higher TDPs/clockspeeds.

In regards to performance, AMD is touting an average (geomean) IPC increase in desktop workloads for Zen 5 of 16%. And with the new desktop Ryzen chips' turbo clockspeeds remaining largely identical to their Ryzen 7000 predecessors, this should translate into similar performance expectations for the new chips.

The AMD Ryzen 9000 series will also launch on the AM5 socket, which debuted with AMD's Ryzen 7000 series and marks AMD's commitment to socket/platform longevity. Along with the Ryzen 9000 series will come a pair of new high-performance chipsets: the X870E (Extreme) and the regular X870 chipsets. The fundamental features that vendors will integrate into their specific motherboards remain tight-lipped. Still, we do know that USB 4.0 ports are standard on the X870E/X870 boards, along with PCIe 5.0 for both PCIe graphics and NVMe storage, with higher AMD EXPO memory profile support expected than previous generations.

Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it's now on its third generation of processors for "AI PCs." That's the justification for

Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show's leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we're expecting AMD to have a whole host of product announcements covering their full spectrum of product categories.

The big expectation here is fresh news around AMD’s Zen 5 CPU core architecture, and the chips built around it. AMD’s most recent Zen 5 roadmap has it slated to deliver all three flavors of Zen 5 by the end of this year, and we’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Zen 4 architecture launch.

Along with client chips, AMD has been pushing their server CPUs hard, and they’ve previously told investors that the next-gen EPYC Turin CPU is “looking great”. So we’ll likely hear about both client and server Zen 5 product plans during this keynote.

On the GPU/accelerator side of matters, AMD is mid-cycle (at best) with their Instinct MI300 series accelerators. With the company’s sales repeatedly beating their own expectations, AMD doesn’t seem to need much help moving this premium silicon right now. But with AI being the operative buzzword of this year’s Computex (and indeed, the computing industry as a whole), it would be weird for AMD to not have something to say about their rapidly growing AI accelerator product line.

Come join us at 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET / 01:30 UTC to get all the details.

In this week's roundup of Apple-related crime, a Man who burned down home over iPhone misunderstanding gets prison, iPhone scammers get arrested, and a man tracks his stolen AirPods Pro to Iraq.


The video of a thief ransacking an Apple Store in the Bay Area in January went so viral that crime alert app Citizen has been using the video in its social media advertising.

Two men charged in the thefts were due to appear in court on the week of May 20, SFGate.com reported.


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Amazon's latest Apple Watch sale knocks up to $170 off a variety of styles, with prices dropping to as low as $189.

A new report doubles-down on the improbability of new hardware debuts at WWDC — and pushes back the rumored arrival of an Apple TV set-top box update.


Walking back one of its own predictions, Bloomberg now says that no new hardware will be announced at 2024's Worldwide Developer's Conference, which kicks off on June 10th. It also revised its forecast for the next version of the Apple TV hardware box.

The newsletter had previously said that it expected a new version to arrive in the first half of 2024. This would include an upgraded processor from the current model's A15 Bionic.


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A bicyclist's fortuitous AirPod bounce after a terrible crash helped police track down a hit-and-run driver.


A New York Times report told the story of 15-year-old Lochlan Nicol of Jensen Beach, Florida, who rode his bike to a gas station on the evening of May 22nd, 2024 to get some ice cream. An SUV suddenly turning into the station's driveway caused the teen to crash, with Nicol's head going through the rear-passenger window.

During the accident, one of the boy's AirPods fell out and into the SUV, lodging itself under a floor mat. The driver did stop briefly, but only to move the unconscious and seriously injured Nicol out of the road before fleeing the scene.


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Nvidia has kicked off Computex today with its latest keynote. This year, the company is tripling down on AI. For starters, Nvidia has revealed Project G-Assist, a new feature that will bring AI game guide assistants to supported games. Beyond that, RTX Remix is going open source, enabling developers to take the technology and work on it however they see fit. 

Project G-Assist is a GeForce powered AI assistant that can analyse voice/text, screen and app/system inputs, funnel the data through an AI model, and then bring you helpful advice during your gameplay. The project is capable of suggesting system settings changes to improve performance, and it can also give you tips on how to best tackle gameplay, either by walking you through how mechanics work, or by giving you advice on gear.

It seems to be a supercharged version of the in-game guide feature that Sony debuted with the PlayStation 5, before swiftly abandoning it a year later. However, Nvidia's G-Assist can process locally using an RTX graphics card, or via the cloud and thanks to AI functionality, it should also evolve over time to give better tips and tricks. No supported games have been officially announced just yet, but we'll hopefully learn more about that in the months ahead.

Nvidia is also making RTX Remix, its modding tool for bringing ray-tracing to any game, open source, allowing developers to use it more widely and broadly. The company is also debuting its new Small Form Factor PC initiative, which will see board partners releasing SFF-friendly GeForce graphics cards for those looking to build a Mini-ITX powerhouse.

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A recent leak has shed some light on upcoming AMD motherboards and CPUs. Besides confirming the rumours that AMD would skip the 700-series naming for its next-generation motherboards, it also showed the initial line-up of Ryzen 9000 series processors.

The Gigabyte presentation shared by @wxnod shows that the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Master AM5 motherboards will support the current Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) and 8000 (Hawk Point) CPUs. However, the presentation focuses more on the upcoming Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge) series, which is shown to include four SKUs: the Ryzen 5 9600X, the Ryzen 7 9700X, the Ryzen 9 9900X, and the Ryzen 9 9950X.

According to Gigabyte's presentations, the Granite Ridge CPUs will default to DDR5-5600 memory support, supporting up to 8000 MT/s memory through EXPO overclocking profiles. Additionally, the Infinity Fabric clock speed has been doubled from 2000 to 2400 MHz.

As for motherboards, Gigabyte is gearing up to launch a range of motherboards for the Granite Ridge series, including an AI TOP series for the AM5 socket and at least four new chipsets. The X670E and X670 chipsets will be replaced by the X870E and X870, respectively. Both X870 chipsets support PCIe Gen5 x16 and at least one PCIe Gen5 SSD. Other features expected include an optimised WiFi antenna, USB4 capability, and DisplayPort 2.1, which is reported to be UHBR20 compliant. The only noticeable difference between the two X870 chipsets seems to be that they use two Promontory 21 chips on the X870E, while the X870 only uses one.

Moving on to the mid-range chipsets, the B650E and B650 chipsets are set to be replaced by the B850 and B840, respectively. This marks the introduction of the X40 class to AMD's portfolio, utilising a different chipset (Prom19) than the higher-tier boards. One big difference between the B850 and B840 is that the B840 does not support CPU overclocking, although both will support memory overclocking. The B840 will also lack PCIe Gen5 compatibility. Lastly, the A620 and A620A chipsets are expected to remain unchanged and will continue to be offered as an entry-level option.

The list of motherboards mentioned in the presentation can be found below:

• X870E Aorus Xtreme AI Top
• X870E Aorus Pro Ice
• X870 Aorus Elite WIFI
• X870I Aorus Pro
• B850 AI Top
• B850M DS3H
• B850M Aorus Elite AX
• B840 D2H

AMD is expected to unveil the Ryzen 9000 series at Computex next week. Gigabyte and other motherboard manufacturers will likely showcase their new motherboards at the event.

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Nvidia NVLink technology has been a game-changer in enabling high-speed communication between GPUs and CPUs since its debut in 2014. Surpassing traditional connection standards that have become inadequate for today's high-performance accelerators, it started off being used in gaming GPUs. That's not the case anymore, as Nvidia has removed the technology from mainstream and workstation products, limiting its usage to data centres and HPC.

Efficient communication is crucial in data centres housing large clusters of accelerators. Servers require effective networking and intercommunication mechanisms, particularly when multiple GPUs are used on the same server. The most recent iteration, NVLink 5.0, comes out with Blackwell and Grace CPUs and represents a significant advancement, doubling the bandwidth over 4.0 from 100 Gbit/s to 200 Gbit/s.

With NVLink being used exclusively by Nvidia products, the rest of the industry had to develop an alternative. AMD, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others have created a new open-source communication standard called UALink that could rival NVLink for scaling up AI applications in data centres.

According to the press release, the first standard (1.0) aims to facilitate communication between up to 1024 accelerators in a single computing pod and the connected memory, which includes GPUs. However, details regarding the maximum bandwidth are currently unavailable. The UALink Consortium is scheduled to be established in Q3 2024, and the 1.0 specifications will be available in the same quarter.

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series, featuring Zen 5 cores, is set to debut at Computex. Leaked information from a press event has unveiled four models belonging to the upcoming series, as well as two Ryzen 5000XT CPUs.

As per the image shared by CodeCommando, the top-tier offering, the Ryzen 9 9950X, is expected to pack 16 cores and 32 threads, with a maximum clock speed of 5.7GHz, this flagship SKU will have a TDP of 170W and a substantial 80MB of cache. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 9 9900X will sport 12 cores and 24 threads, with a boost clock of 5.6GHz, a TDP of 120W, and 76MB of cache.

Image credit: CodeCommando

Moving down the line-up, the Ryzen 7 9700X will offer 8 cores and 16 threads, capable of reaching clock speeds of up to 5.5GHz, all within a 65W TDP and 40MB of cache. Similarly, the Ryzen 5 9600X, a 6-core variant with 12 threads, is expected to hit clock speeds of 5.4GHz while having the same 65W TDP.

Moreover, the leaker also shared another image showing two Ryzen 5000XT CPUs: the 8C/16T Ryzen 7 5800XT (36MB cache) and the 16C/32T Ryzen 9 5900XT (72MB cache). The image also shows that both CPUs will clock up to 4.8GHz and feature a 105W TDP.

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Apple has quietly changed the M2 iPad Air's listed GPU core count from 10 cores to nine cores, and Metal benchmark testing suggests that the nine-core spec is accurate.


The M2 iPad Air was originally announced as having a 10-core GPU in its initial press release on May 7, 2024. The press release has remained uncorrected, as has an iPad Air support page, and all listings for the product in Apple Stores outside the US as of June 1, 2024.

The correction, first spotted by 9to5 Mac, on Saturday is likely to be the true core count, with the original specs having strangely been in error. Geekbench's Metal benchmark testing of the M2 iPad Air shows a score of 41,095, compared to the M2 iPad Pro's 10-core GPU, which rates a score of 45,195.


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Best Buy's blowout deal on the M2 15-inch MacBook Air knocks $400 off a loaded configuration with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD.


The steep markdown is available this weekend only, with the loaded M2 15-inch MacBook Air dropping to $1,499 at Apple Authorized Reseller Best Buy. At press time, Midnight, Space Gray and Starlight are available at the discounted price — with Silver already sold out.

Save $400 at Best Buy


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A scam involving "returning" some 16,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads to Apple stores has resulted in five arrests that could lead to decades behind bars.


A criminal ring operating throughout southern California has been charged with stealing some $12.3 million worth of Apple products by "returning" real-looking counterfeits that didn't work to Apple Stores. The stores would then replace the non-functional clones with genuine iPhones and iPads, which were then shipped overseas.

Five Chinese nationals living in the Los Angeles area were apprehended on May 30th, 2024. Yang Song, Junwei Jiang, Zhengxuan Hu, Yushan Lin, and Shuyi Xing will be tried on charges of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.


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After getting fed up with overnight thefts of tools, a Northern Virginia carpenter planted AirTags on his tools, leading police to series of storage facilities full of stolen goods.


Twice, an unnamed carpenter woke in the early morning to find his van broken into, and thousands of dollars of tools stolen out of the vehicle. He decided that if there was going to be a third time, he was going to hunt down the thieves.

He bought a series of AirTags and planted them in some of the larger tools that had yet to be stolen.


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The annual Computex computer expo kicks off in Taepei this weekend. And this year’s show is shaping up to be the most packed in years.

Computex rivals CES for the most important PC trade show of the year, and in most years is attended by not only the numerous local Taiwanese firms (Asus, MSI, ASRock, and others), but the major chip developers have been increasing their own presence as well. These days, while CES itself tends to land more high-profile announcements, in recent years it’s been Computex that has delivered on more substantial announcements. This is largely because tech firms have aligned their product schedules to roll out near gear in the second half of the year, when retail sales are stronger due to the back-to-school and holiday shopping periods.

This year’s show, in turn, is looking to be an especially big year for the PC ecosystem. All the major PC chip firms – AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and the 4^th Musketeer, Qualcomm – are holding keynote addresses at this year’s show, where they’re expected to announce new slates of PC products to ship later this year. In a normal year there is typically only major announcements from one or two of the major chip firms, so having all four of them at the show delivering lengthy keynotes is setting things up for what should be an exceptional show.

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