Review of AMD’s new $699 Ryzen 9 7950X, built on Zen 4 with 16 cores: blistering single- and multi-threaded performance and efficiency helps beat Intel’s chips (AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: improved V/F curve and more efficiency cores compared to Alder Lake and highly competitive with AMD Zen 4  —  Today marks the release of Intel’s 13th generation Core processor series, codenamed Raptor Lake.

Tobias Mann / The Register:
AMD announces its 4th-gen Epyc Genoa chips, based on the Zen 4 architecture, with up to 96 cores and support for DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and Compute Express Link  —  Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim  —  AMD’s status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel’s wake has been upended.

Max A. Cherney / Protocol:
Nvidia and AMD say the US imposed export restrictions on chips used for AI applications to Russia and China, affecting chips like Nvidia’s A100 and AMD’s MI200  —  The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …

Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AMD’s success at catching up to Intel, huge bets on custom chips, the PC slump, export restrictions to China, and more  —  WATCH NOW  —  How AMD became a chip giant and finally caught Intel  —  Advanced Micro Devices made history this year …

Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome:
Arm unveils Neoverse V2, its next-gen performance-optimized cores for the cloud, hyperscale, and HPC workloads, which is used in Nvidia’s upcoming Grace CPU  —  Today Arm announced its next-generation cores for higher performance per core applications.  Dubbed the Arm Neoverse V2 or “Demeter” …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close  —  New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.  —  Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs are amazing performers.