News & Reviews:   AMD

TSMC's favourite customer is undoubtedly Apple, as most of its sales belong to the Cupertino-based company. Therefore, the semiconductor manufacturer would leave the best to the tech giant, and it might have made someone jealous. According to a recent report, AMD is considering switching to Samsung for its 3nm products due to the TSMC's special treatment for Apple.

Samsung and AMD have confirmed the collaboration on the next-generation Exynos chip. Now, both of them might be ready to announce it soon after posting something mysterious on social media platforms. If the source had guessed it right, the Exynos 2200 chip with AMD graphics would arrive on 19 November.

On 19 October, Google will launch its highly-anticipated Pixel 6 series along with the in-house chipset Tensor. Besides Google, someone might also be interested in making a new in-house chipset that fits better with its own devices. According to the latest information, Microsoft could be planning to develop its own for the Surface devices.

So last week, there were numerous reports that Windows 11 is causing some performance issues on AMD PCs and laptops. Although both Microsoft and AMD have worked together to resolve it, it seems that the latest update didn't really help much but made it worst than before.

Last week, Windows 11 officially launched and a few new laptops were the first to get access to it. But as always, a new operating system is bound to have bugs and users soon found that AMD PCs had performance issues. Well, looks like that's being fixed.

By now, most of you may have already upgraded your PC or laptop to Windows 11. However, if your model is using an AMD Ryzen mobile processor - you might want to hold off the upgrade because there are reports of performance issues.

We think the rumours for the competition of 2022 flagship chips are already fierce enough even without them being in the market yet. According to the latest report, the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 2000 will be 20% more power-efficient than Qualcomm's next-generation flagship chip, Snapdragon 898.

Based on a statement by gizchina, it seems that AMD could start manufacturing mobile chipsets in collaboration with MediaTek in the near future. While there is no official information in regards to when will AMD release their first chipset, it does give us a better idea of what to expect from them in the near future.

It looks like AMD is planning to contribute its technology to another smartphone chip maker besides Samsung. According to the latest report from DigiTimes, MediaTek could be the next to enjoy the benefits of the RDNA graphics chip. However, do note that everything is still in the discussion stage, so it's best to not get your hopes up yet.

Next year's Samsung Galaxy A series will probably be really competitive in terms of tech specs. After the rumour came out saying that all the 2022 Galaxy A devices would feature optical image stabilization (OIS), a new report has arrived claiming that some would also get the mRDNA GPU from AMD.