AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon

Both AMD and Intel continue to serve low-end PCs with aging silicon.

As newer, more efficient silicon manufacturing processes have gotten more expensive and difficult to develop, chipmakers like Intel and AMD have repeatedly rebranded some of their older processors with new model numbers. This has allowed both companies to release “new” products that aren’t actually new at all, muddying the waters for people trying to buy lower-end and midrange laptops.

As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, AMD has quietly rebranded a swath of its Ryzen laptop chips with new model numbers without changing the silicon. The rebranded processors use either Rembrandt-R silicon with Zen 3+ CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics cores or Mendocino silicon with Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics cores. Both of these architectures first launched in 2022, but Mendocino’s Zen 2 CPU architecture dates all the way back to 2019. During the company’s model number decoder ring era, these designs had been sold as Ryzen 7035- and Ryzen 7020-series chips, respectively.

This is actually AMD’s second rebranding for the Rembrandt-R silicon, which was launched as the Ryzen 6000 series in 2022. These chips will compete most directly with Intel’s non-Ultra Core 100 series processors, most of which use 2022-vintage Raptor Lake silicon.

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Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.

On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a revised partnership agreement that introduces an independent expert panel to verify when OpenAI achieves so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), a determination that will trigger major shifts in how the companies share technology and revenue. The deal values Microsoft’s stake in OpenAI at approximately $135 billion and extends the exclusive partnership through 2032 while giving both companies more freedom to pursue AGI independently.

The partnership began in 2019 when Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI. Since then, Microsoft has provided billions in cloud computing resources through Azure and used OpenAI’s models as the basis of products like Copilot. The new agreement maintains Microsoft as OpenAI’s frontier model partner and preserves Microsoft’s exclusive rights to OpenAI’s IP and Azure API exclusivity until the threshold of AGI is reached.

Under the previous arrangement, OpenAI alone would determine when it achieved AGI, which is a nebulous concept that is difficult to define. The revised deal requires an independent expert panel to verify that claim, a change that adds oversight to a determination with billions of dollars at stake. When the panel confirms that AGI has been reached, Microsoft’s intellectual property rights to OpenAI’s research methods will expire, and the revenue-sharing arrangement between the companies will end, though payments will continue over a longer period.

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Admin-Zugang gekapert: Insasse hackt Gefängnis-IT und macht Mithäftlinge reich

Aufgeflogen ist alles, weil Inhaftierte ihre Gier nicht im Griff hatten. Ein Millionenbetrag auf dem Konto eines Insassen ist dann doch etwas auffällig. (Sicherheitslücke, Cyberwar)

Aufgeflogen ist alles, weil Inhaftierte ihre Gier nicht im Griff hatten. Ein Millionenbetrag auf dem Konto eines Insassen ist dann doch etwas auffällig. (Sicherheitslücke, Cyberwar)

(g+) Enterprise-Software: Die Erosion der Open-Source-Prinzipien

Open Source verkommt immer häufiger zur Marketingfloskel, Lizenzen werden im laufenden Betrieb gewechselt. Das sind die Warnzeichen. Ein Ratgebertext von Klaus Manhart (Open Source, OSI)

Open Source verkommt immer häufiger zur Marketingfloskel, Lizenzen werden im laufenden Betrieb gewechselt. Das sind die Warnzeichen. Ein Ratgebertext von Klaus Manhart (Open Source, OSI)