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US Commerce Department confirms harsh new AI export rules, shoots down reports over the return of Biden-era AI Diffusion rule
By Anton Shilov published
The U.S. Commerce confirms work on new export regulations for AI accelerators, but implies they will not resemble the ill-fated AI Diffusion Rule.

U.S. Government preps sweeping export controls for Nvidia, AMD AI hardware
By Anton Shilov published
The Trump administration is working on sweeping export regulations over AI hardware that will make large AI clusters a topic of intergovernmental talks.

‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI
By Jowi Morales published
Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.

AMD details Ryzen AI 400 desktop with up to 8 cores, Radeon 860M graphics
By Jake Roach published
Still holding out hope for Ryzen 9000G.

AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II
By Mark Tyson published
AMD launched its first processors with on-die L2 cache this week in 1999, heralding the beginning of the Super Socket 7 era.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900K faceoff
By Kunal Khullar published
Two flagship CPUs, two very different philosophies.

ISSCC 2026: AMD discloses how the Instinct MI355X doubled per-CU throughput despite lower compute unit count
By Luke James published
Premium Taking to the stage at ISSCC, AMD’s Ramasamy Adaikkalavan talked through how AMD managed to fit nearly double the compute throughput into the same die area as its predecessor,

Behind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUs
By Jake Roach published
Premium We’re retesting a decade’s worth of CPUs for our CPU hierarchy and Bench database, and we’re taking 3DTested Premium users behind the scenes to show you how it’s done.

Best Gaming PCs of 2026
By Andrew E. Freedman last updated
We test the best gaming PCs with our typical gauntlet of real-world and synthetic benchmarks to measure overall prebuilt system performance.

Asus ROG Ally receives timely GPU driver update despite rumors of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme deprecation
By Ben Stockton published
A new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU update for the Asus ROG Ally has alleviated some concern about its deprecation, although some questions remain about its longevity.
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