RAM price crisis or not, mainstream handhelds shouldn't cost $1,000 – and the MSI is making that mistake with the Claw A8

The MSI Claw A8 looks set to be another handheld costing over $1,000, and this may eventually destroy the appeal of handheld ...

MSI Claw leak: Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld comes with brutal sticker shock

The MSI Claw A8 spotted by VideoCardz has a Ryzen Z2 Extreme, 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. It also supports Wi-Fi ...
Club386

MSI’s new AMD Claw handheld just appeared in the US, but its price is eye-wateringly high

MSI Claw A8 with AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme shows up at Newegg US for $1,149, potentially a victim of high RAM prices.
PCGamesN

New budget AMD Ryzen CPU beats the Intel 14600K by up to 131fps in games, thanks to X3D

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D is official, and it means you can now grab an AMD CPU that includes the company's revolutionary game performance-enhancing 3D V-Cache technology and works on modern AM5 ...
Gizmodo

AMD’s New CPUs Might Just Kill Low-End GPUs Soon

AMD’s secret weapon against Nvidia’s gaming products isn’t another graphics card but a “Max” chip that has the capability to do everything, everywhere, all at once. The company’s Strix Halo lineup, ...
Ars Technica

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

AMD’s X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips’ extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory ...
PC Gamer

I got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8

Just as the Asus ROG Ally is taking on a new form in the ROG Xbox Ally, so the MSI Claw 8 is taking on a new form as an, erm, ROG Ally? Nah, kidding, it's not an Ally, but it does look pretty similar ...
pcguide

MSI Claw A8 benchmarks reveal the new Z2 Extreme model is not miles ahead of its predecessor

As the first Z2 Extreme-powered handheld, people have been eager to see how well this AMD chip performs in the MSI Claw A8, especially since it will be featured in the upcoming Legion Go 2 and ROG ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Data Center CPU Dominance Is Shifting To AMD And Arm

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...
PCGamesN

A new 7GHz AMD Ryzen gaming CPU is reportedly in the works

New AMD Ryzen CPUs could match or exceed clock speeds of 7GHz, according to the latest rumor, representing a monumental leap over Zen 4 and Zen 5 architecture. Previous rumors suggested that the ...
Ars Technica

Transcoding with Radeon HD6550D?

Is there any free software than can make use of my the HD65650D Radeon GPU on my AMD A8 CPU? I'm currently using Any Video Converter free version to change lots of WMVs to MKVs to save on storage ...
TweakTown

AMD confirms Ryzen 5 9600X3D, its new 6C/12T processor with 3D V-Cache

TL;DR: AMD is set to launch the Ryzen 5 9600X3D, a mid-range gaming CPU featuring 6 cores, 12 threads, and 96MB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache technology. Expected in late Q3 or early Q4 2025, it offers ...