AMD and Intel - “Team Red” and “Team Blue”, the world’s two leading semiconductor chip manufacturers, who have been sworn enemies, always competing with each other on all fronts in the “x86 arms race” for many years, have suddenly turned from enemies to friends recently. Indeed, the strong rise of the ARM platform essentially threatens the survival of both AMD and Intel. The saying “there are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests” has once again proven to be correct.
ARM architecture is fundamentally much more efficient than x86. That’s why it’s been the foundation of mobile phone chipsets for the longest time, and is slowly making its way into PCs. While Intel’s x86 chips were the dominant force in the desktop and server space about a decade ago, that’s been changing rapidly in the past few years. First, Apple itself ditched Intel in favor of ARM-based M-series silicon. And now Microsoft has started showing off some Copilot+ PCs running on Qualcomm-made ARM chips. There’s no room for AMD or Intel.
This is an existential threat, and it seems like AMD and Intel are finally admitting that they have a common enemy.
Today, in a promising joint agreement, AMD and Intel jointly announced a project called the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, created to improve the x86 platform and AMD64 (the 64-bit version of x86 that AMD licenses to Intel), as well as the entire ecosystem of software and hardware that depend on it.
In a press release, AMD and Intel outlined the key highlights and goals behind the creation of the project. The release states:
The advisory group aims to unite industry leaders to shape the future of x86 and drive developer innovation through a more unified set of architectural interfaces and instructions. This initiative will increase compatibility, predictability, and consistency across x86 products.
To achieve this, the team will gather technical input from the x86 hardware and software communities on essential functions and features.
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The objectives include:
Increase customer choice and compatibility across hardware and software, optimizing the ability to benefit from new, advanced features.
Simplify architectural guidelines to enhance software and interface consistency across Intel and AMD x86 products.
Enables more and more efficient integration of new capabilities into operating systems, frameworks, and applications.
Microsoft happens to be one of the founding members of this project. In addition, there are many big names in the industry such as Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo, Meta, Oracle and Red Hat, and celebrities including Linus Torvalds and Tim Sweeney. The computer processor market in the coming time is expected to witness fierce competition and many unpredictable twists.
Last month, AMD released a new version of Ryzen Master, an application that helps tweak and overclock Ryzen and Threadripper-branded processors.
In its new UEFI support document, AMD states that Radeon GPUs from the 9000 series onwards will only officially support UEFI mode.
It seems like AMD is trying to raise market expectations for the upcoming MI325X processor.
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At this year's CES 2025 event, AMD refrained from revealing long-awaited details about its new flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, which is built on the RDNA 4 architecture.
AMD Strix Point laptop users will now get a new feature called Variable Graphics Memory.
There have been a lot of rumors lately that AMD seems to be planning to withdraw from the GPU market.
AMD has finally announced the release date and pricing of its highly anticipated Ryzen 9000X3D processors.
MD has officially confirmed for the first time that it is working on the next generation version of its Z-series handheld gaming CPU, called the Z2 Extreme.
With the unimpressive performance of recent CPU generations, Intel seems to be losing popularity in the Chinese market, where rival AMD is increasingly gaining popularity.
Back in December 2023, AMD introduced the Ryz 8040 (Hawk Point) series mobile APUs, while also revealing a few brief details about the next-generation Strix Point series.
After a long wait, AMD has finally announced the official launch date of its first new desktop CPU line developed on the Zen 5 architecture: Ryzen 9000.
Unlike its desktop CPU division, AMD's GPU business can't seem to agree on how to name its commercial discrete cards.
After a long wait, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has finally been officially launched, serving as a strategic product in AMD's top-of-the-line X3D CPU line.
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