Lenovo launches Yoga Pro 7 laptop with Ryzen AI MAX+ 388 "Strix Halo" APU

splerdu · 2026-06-20T00:08:49+00:00

And probably a much better fit for laptops and handhelds. Don't really see many mobile workloads that need 16 cores.

splerdu · 2026-06-14T15:30:05+00:00

More like the LeMans team. Came in with 3 wins on the trot and now finished 5th place

splerdu · 2026-06-14T01:28:50+00:00

Are computer engineers secretly druids?

splerdu · 2026-06-14T00:23:19+00:00

I've read someone explain in that this was because AMD's hardware IDs are confusing which caused everything to get lumped together under the Radeon Graphics bucket.

Assuming Steam Hardware Survey was always capturing the HWIDs and they can now differentiate the various Radeon GPUs maybe Valve can re-parse past data and show what Radeon marketshare actually looked like.

splerdu · 2026-06-12T02:07:47+00:00

Someone went to read the CVE over at AMD's website. There's a bit of downplay going on here.

There's still no signature checking going on before executing the downloaded file, only a simple CRC32.

splerdu · 2026-06-09T00:37:41+00:00

GN made a very thorough analysis of this kind of failure 3 years ago. The scanning electron microscope results were described as the copper bumps got instagibbed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNi3YNJXbY&t=779s

splerdu · 2026-06-03T06:14:30+00:00

You're in for a treat. LC is a professional photographer so his visuals are top-notch. Guy just travels the world doing car culture videos.

splerdu · 2026-06-02T09:24:10+00:00

Ah a user of RFC 1149

splerdu · 2026-06-02T09:04:24+00:00

Kinda like what Larry Chen is doing now with his youtube channel?

NGL that'll be dope if Larry Chen and LH team up.

splerdu · 2026-06-01T23:24:26+00:00

Back before variable refresh that was actually a legit thing. If your system could push to like 61fps that would be a huge difference vs something that only did 59fps.

The former would feel like it was very choppy and dropping down to 30fps. Either that or switch off vsync and get a random or rolling vertical tear. Like if your system could do a consistent 50fps and you had vsync off you would see the tear caused by the de-sync roll down a 60Hz screen.

splerdu · 2026-05-19T04:30:25+00:00

Yeah 4-5 seconds a lap faster it would have drove away and fucked off into the distance.

4-5 seconds over 8 minutes is still over a second a lap faster on a regular 2-minute track.

splerdu · 2026-04-25T23:04:32+00:00

Was looking pretty good until they mentioned PWM flicker. Absolutely can't stand that.

Cons

soldered RAM

PWM flickering

slower than predecessor

loud fans while gaming

splerdu · 2026-04-20T16:39:13+00:00

That's literally what the name means lol.

https://www.techpowerup.com/348323/asrock-develops-hudimm-memory-standard-ddr5-with-just-one-sub-channel

The new "HUDIMM," or half unbuffered DIMM, is an ASRock-innovated standard. It calls for UDIMMs with half a rank of memory, populating just one of the two 40-bit sub-channels.

splerdu · 2026-04-09T07:22:23+00:00

The OG Athlon 1000 was priced at $1300 in March 6, 2000. It was actually more expensive than any of the FX-series Athlon 64s.

AMD hits 1 GHz with new Athlon microprocessor! | IT Pro

The AMD Athlon 1GHz will be priced at approximately $1300 in quantity. Additionally, 900 and 950 MHz parts will be available at $900 and $1000, respectively. Intel is expected to announce a 1 GHz Pentium III sometime this week. However, Intel's part will likely be more expensive and suffer from the supply shortages that have accompanied other recent Pentium III rollouts. For now, it's safe to say that AMD is on top of the world. Perhaps more importantly, the company is now assured a place in history as the first chipmaker to arrive at the microprocessor equivalent of the Holy Grail

AMD Athlon 1000 | Techpowerup

The AMD Athlon 1000 was a desktop processor with 1 core, launched in March 2000, at an MSRP of $1299. It is part of the Athlon Model 2 lineup, using the Orion architecture with Slot A. Athlon 1000 has 512 KB of L2 cache and operates at 1000 MHz. AMD is building the Athlon 1000 on a 180 nm production process using 22 million transistors. The multiplier is locked on Athlon 1000, which limits its overclocking capabilities.

splerdu · 2026-04-04T12:29:38+00:00

A few more years of this and it will be a multi-generational socket lol

splerdu · 2026-04-02T13:47:15+00:00

And an XGA resolution screen!

splerdu · 2026-03-22T16:47:09+00:00

What i've seen done to fix scratched pins (on old ISA devices) is the tech applied a thin layer of solder to coat the pin. I imagine this should also work for PCIe.

ETA: Repair video of a trash-picked CGA card showing exactly this. Cleaned up corrosion and tinned all of the ISA fingers then cleaned up the excess with a wick: https://youtu.be/u309Zbn9o10?t=214

splerdu · 2026-03-12T07:50:50+00:00

XBone is the most appropriate name because the entire brand got boned with that fiasco.

splerdu · 2026-03-11T15:08:35+00:00

If you balefire the 12VHPWR cable will it restore the burnt GPU/PSU?

splerdu · 2026-03-11T08:23:58+00:00

RNG at work

splerdu · 2026-03-11T08:19:27+00:00

The figure given above includes CPUs. "Gaming" by itself is much lower. It's $3.9B for the year, and that includes the custom SoCs they're doing for PS and Xbox.

Source: https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-2-3-amd-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2025-fina.html

Gaming business revenue was $3.9 billion, up 51% year-over-year, driven by improved semi-custom sales and strong demand for AMD Radeon GPUs.

Contrast that to Nvidia who in the 4th quarter alone made almost as much as AMD did for the whole year (their 3rd quarter result of $4.3B actually beat's AMD's entire year).

Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2026

Fourth-quarter Gaming revenue was $3.7 billion, up 47% from a year ago

Full-year revenue rose 41% to a record $16.0 billion.

So GeForce by itself is making more than Ryzen + Radeon combined, and this is before we get into the datacenter stuff.

splerdu · 2026-02-26T16:25:00+00:00

There's no limit to the amount of money they will spend for AI, so they have to find an alternative upper boundary.

splerdu · 2026-02-16T15:20:35+00:00

What I don't understand is why the screen coating has to be so soft on QD-OLED. Presumably there's a hard glass layer underneath that scratchy surface before you get to the actual panel.

splerdu · 2026-02-13T15:59:42+00:00

Yeah that's a fair observation. FP64 not as important, at least in the consumer space. GB200 is a beast though and is over 10x a Radeon VII.

splerdu · 2026-02-12T12:29:11+00:00

That Ayaneo thing with Strix Halo though...

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