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Intel Resumes Shipping Xeon MCC Processors After Bug is Mitigated

Intel has confirmed that it had paused shipments of some of its fourth-gen Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors due to a newly-discovered bug, but it hadn't set a specific date for shipments to resume. The company has now issued a statement indicating that it has developed a firmware fix and has resumed shipments.

Cezanne Lives On: Ryzen 7 5700 Surfaces Without Integrated Graphics

AMD's Zen 4 processors may compete with the best CPUs. Nevertheless, the chipmaker hasn't moved on from Zen 3. As VideoCardz spotted, Gigabyte has listed an unannounced Zen 3 chip from the Ryzen 5000G (Cezanne) days. The Ryzen 7 5700 first popped up last year, but this is the first time it's been part of an official listing.

AGESA 1.0.7.0 Fixes Temp Control Issues Causing Ryzen 7000 Burnouts

Igor's Lab reports that AMD's new Ryzen 7000 burnout firmware fix, AGESA ComboAM5 patch 1.0.7.0, addresses further bugs surrounding Ryzen 7000's temperature control system. The new combo patch now sets a forced SoC voltage limit of 1.3v and packs in new SMU bug fixes to ensure the processors do not go beyond their temperature specifications.

AMD Genoa-X 96-Core CPU With 1.1 GB of L3 Cache Listed For $1,300 on Grey Market

AMD's EPYC Genoa-X server processors with 3D V-Cache will arrive later this year. An alleged engineering sample (ES) of the EPYC 9684X has gone up on sale for $1,300 on a second-hand Chinese selling platform. The Goofish(opens in new tab) seller claims the processor wields 96 cores and 1,152MB of L3 cache.

AMD Ryzen 7000’s Tiny RDNA2 GPU Overclocked to 3.1 GHz

AMD Ryzen 7000's Tiny RDNA2 GPU Overclocked to 3.1 GHz AMD's latest Ryzen 7000-series processors for desktops based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture feature a tiny RDNA-based graphics processing unit inside their I/O die (IOD).