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EPYC's epicness is easy to depict, for its superlative speeds and superb security, coupled with a qualitative quantity of cores bound by impressive Infinity Fabric has delivered astonishing performance to utterly crush the competition at powerfully proactive pricing and terrifically thrifty TCO.

Intel has revealed four more vulnerabilities in all its modern processors, all of which could lead to side channel attacks that use speculative execution to leak data.

Ok, so we're not talking about the mercury in the thermometer, but Mercury Research's latest market share estimates for Q4 2018, but either way, AMD's YoY growth is WoW.

AMD's new Athlon processors, Athlon PRO processors, and 2nd Gen Ryzen PRO desktop processors "provide generational leap in performance, every day to enterprise-focused workloads, and unified Socket AM4 infrastructure", the company claims.

August and September have been two more benchmark months for AMD, with its WX series offering up to 32-cores and 64-threads for professional computing.

Beating Apple to the 7nm punch, and before Apple has launched its 2018 processors, Huawei launched its new 7nm Kirin 980 system on a chip which "will bring about the next evolution of mobile AI".

Stating it is "accelerating mobile and laptop performance", Arm has unveiled its "first-ever public CPU forward-looking roadmap and performance numbers".

AMD is giving Intel a 32-core, 64-thread pounding right where it hurts – in the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers who know AMD is the winning, race car-like power platform of choice as Intel lumbers like an over-priced, outdated, gas guzzling Rolls Royce.

Intel has enjoyed many incredible achievements over the last 50 years, and while ARM and AMD processors are doing their utmost to disrupt Intel, Chipzilla keeps chipping away, even recently breaking a Guinness World Record.

It wasn't enough for AMD to make PCs great again: the company epically decided a year ago that it was time to make servers great again, too, and the second year of AMD's avenging ways to the benefit of server customers has now begun.

Complete with its Infinity Fabric laden with AMD's six gems compromising of Ryzen and Ryzen Pro, Radeon, SenseMI, GuardMI, Zen and EPYC, AMD's avenging, superhero-like, next-gen technologies are making life very tough for Intel, and great again for PC buyers.

Promising "best-in-class compute performance and even faster gaming frame rates than the previous generation", AMD says its "turbo-charged 12nm Zen+ processor delivers the highest multithreaded performance in its class plus advanced enthusiast features and a smarter platform".

Intel's new 8th-generation vPro Core and Xeon processors have arrived, designed for "digital transformation" and to encourage organisations of all sizes to "upgrade their fleets" of business PCs.

Billed as "the best gaming and creation laptop processor Intel has ever built", the newly ramped up war between Intel and AMD sees consumers, once again, as the ultimate winners.

Gigabyte's Aero 15 has been impressing the world for some time now. It's a noteable notebook in that it's a relatively thin, portable machine that is designed to fit into an executive office while simultaneously being able to play the latest games.

Proving that if you can't beat 'em, you join 'em, Intel has done what was once unthinkable: delivered an Intel processor with accompanying AMD graphics technology, after promising this in November 2017.

AMD's Ryzen processors were the talk of 2017, forcing Intel to finally respond in a significant way at long last, ending years of incrementalism, with AMD rising to the challenge with pedal to the metal for 2018 and beyond.

In late 2017, I attended two AMD events, one on AMD's Ryzen Mobile processor, and the second on AMD's Ryzen Pro for Australia's workforce, and they're available for you to watch, in full. 

Although mired in a legal fight with Apple, Qualcomm is still busy creating new processors and technologies, with its new flagship processor and SOC being the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.

A new strain of cryptomining scripts that work through browsers continue their activity through a pop-under window even after a user shuts their browser, researchers have found.