Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon took to the stage to showcase new Snapdragon X Elite laptops, and make some jabs at Apple.

It’s midnight right now in your author’s native Texas, but it’s only 1:00 PM in Taiwan, and not long before, AMD wrapped up the opening keynote for this year’s Computex Taipei. We’ve already covered numerous announcements made during the keynote, including the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, the Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors, the Instinct MI325X

The PC scene is really heating up. With Arm-based processors from Qualcomm and Apple offering stark competition against the conventional x86-64 world, and with AI being such a focus of so many players, we’ve got hybrid machines with three, four, or five different types of processors on board and all sorts of hardware tricks. In that context,

Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it’s now on its third generation of processors for “AI PCs.”
That’s the justification for

AMD disclosed a plethora of details during the Computex 2024 opening keynote regarding upcoming desktop and mobile processors in the Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 families, respectively, along with a new dual-slot Radeon Pro W7900WS to facilitate multi-GPU configurations in professional workstations. In addition to these consumer and workstation

AMD released an array of professional workstation GPUs in 2023, with the powerful flagship Radeon Pro W7900 sitting at the top of the heap. You can read our in-depth review of the GPU right here.

The Radeon Pro W7900 has a similar GPU configuration to the consumer-class Radeon RX 7900 XTX, with the same 96 unified compute units, for a total