News & Reviews:   AMD

Remember the Huawei desktop PC we mentioned earlier this month? Turns out it could be the same one hinted back in June, the one that's expected to feature an AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4400G APU. Now, we have a better idea of how it looks thanks to leaked images of a grey-coloured version of the desktop PC.

Back then, if you were keen on getting a laptop that has good performance and battery efficiency, you’d have to go for laptops that typically cost more than RM3000. But thanks to AMD who recently released their new Ryzen 4000 series processors, they’ve managed to drive down laptop prices to a much more affordable level while maintaining adequate performance and battery life.

With that said, Acer recently unveiled the Swift 3 which is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 4500U processor with Radeon Graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD for the price of only RM2599. Let’s have a closer look at the performance of the Swift 3 and see what kind of workloads this laptop is suitable.

The desktop GPU war is expected to heat up again in late Q3 2020. Nvidia and AMD are expected to launch new graphics cards based on new GPU architecture, with both camps likely to outdo the current king of the hill - Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. But rumours seem to indicate that AMD might have an edge this time with its upcoming Big Navi GPU.

TechNave NewsBytes 2020 #16 - Samsung, realme, Huawei, Honor, Digi, Xiaomi, AMD, Lazada, Garmin Tacx, Kaspersky, HP Inc, Microsoft, LG, Grab, MDEC and more

As AMD continues to gain market recognition, more companies are producing variants of laptops with AMD CPUs. We've seen this with the Honor MagicBook 14, which just recently launched a variant sporting the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U CPU. Now, the company could be looking to launch more AMD variants for the rest of its MagicBook laptops.

Looking to build a new gaming PC? Then you might want to get one of the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT series CPUs. First announced last month, AMD has now launched the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 5 3600XT CPUs in Malaysia.

Based on a statement by VideoCardz, it seems that there was a rumour going around that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla could be bundled along with selected AMD processors. These processors include the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, as well as the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X.

Fans of AMD Ryzen CPUs are in for a treat, as the company has decided to release more CPUs for enthusiasts. Earlier today, AMD announced three new CPUs to the Ryzen 3000 series - the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT and AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT processors.

This time around in TechNave NewsBytes 2020 #14 we have Samsung’s new QLED TVs including The Serif, The Sero and The Frame with Malaysia pricing. In addition, Huawei comes in with several new 5G and networking certifications, OPPO received 3 A’Design Awards and the Honor 9X achieved more than 10 million global shipments. 

Digi and MDEC are helping SMEs to be BCD-ready while good guy AMD have donated Supercomputing clusters to researchers combatting COVID-19 and AMD and Amazon Web Cervies have announced the general availability of AMD powered Compute-Optimized EC2 C5a instances. 5 new Malaysians join YouTube Malaysia’s Gold Creator Award Club while TIME maintains growth for Q1 2020. Akamai helps combat Credit Card skimming while Tune Protect also stays tough for Q1 2020.

Malaysia’s LEVEL UP SPACEBAR and PLAY-ONE are coming in June, Goodday Milk launched a webAR for Raya and the LEGO Technic Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 was launched for RM1599.90. LG signed off their vacuum cleaner patents to Miele while Mercedes Benz announced their new Mercedes-AMG Compact cars virtually. MERCY Malaysia selected Digi’s Omni Hotline for counselling support while ILLEGEAR announced their ONYX V and ROGUE laptops powered by the AMD RYZEN 4000 series. 

For this episode’s Special we have the hidden technologies behind the Hidden Hinge on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, a tutorial on how to take great photos and greener smartphone chargers from Samsung. As usual for Specials, you can scroll all the way down to check it out but you can also read through from the top, your choice.

Most of us are familiar with companies that make chipsets for smartphones by now. There's Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek, and Huawei Android devices, while Apple for its iPhones. What's unexpected is AMD seemingly getting ready to join the fray with a new smartphone chipset.