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After user outcry over the silent removal of TSME memory encryption from consumer Ryzen processors, AMD has announced it will reinstate the feature in a July firmware update.

Valve is working with AMD to bring FSR 4 upscaling to the Steam Machine, promising significant graphical improvements for the console.

Technical report on running Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 model on a dual AMD Radeon R9700 setup using llama.cpp with ROCm, including performance benchmarks and configuration details.

A comparison of AI inference frameworks ROCm, Vulkan, and vLLM running on dual AMD Radeon 9700 GPUs, likely benchmarking performance for large language models.

A detailed comparison of local AI hardware in terms of memory capacity, bandwidth, and software stack, covering GPUs, Apple Silicon, AMD, Intel, Tenstorrent, and others, with a focus on what bottlenecks matter for AI inference.

AMD will reinstate Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs via a BIOS update in July, following community feedback after the feature was silently removed in an earlier firmware update.

The article details a setup running six AI agents 24/7 on a Minisforum MS-S1 Max mini workstation with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip, costing $11/month in electricity. It highlights the shift from cloud API costs to local inference, enabling always-on agents for tasks like email sorting, research monitoring, and document processing.

Discussion about upcoming AMD GPU offerings and their potential for building an LLM rig, asking the community for build suggestions.

AMD has released GAIA 0.21.2, introducing gaia-bash, an AI-powered bash scripting assistant for writing, reviewing, testing, and debugging shell scripts on AMD hardware. It supports multiple interfaces including TUI, CLI, pipe mode, REST API, and MCP stdio server.

AMD has quietly removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer Ryzen CPUs via newer AGESA firmware, potentially leaving users vulnerable to physical attacks, while AMD engineers have gone silent on the matter.

This blog post from Anyscale explains the intuition behind Prefill-Decode (PD) disaggregation for LLM serving, showing how separating prefill and decode phases onto dedicated GPUs can achieve up to 2.7x better goodput and 67% cost savings when using Ray and vLLM on AMD MI325X, while also discussing when PD disaggregation does not help.

A user benchmarks a modded AMD V620 GPU flashed with W6800 firmware and a custom blower fan for running LLMs via Vulkan and ROCm backends, comparing performance on Qwen2.5-27B at various quantization levels.

tinygrad announces it has achieved a spot on the MLPerf benchmark board using AMD MI350X hardware to train Llama 8B, with its own driver, runtime, kernels, and training loop, and plans to improve the time and tackle 405B next.

AMD removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from its consumer Ryzen CPUs without notice, causing user backlash. The change was detected through firmware updates and appears to be a deliberate restriction to differentiate Pro chips.

Discusses the nuanced reality of prefill-decode disaggregation in LLM serving at scale, based on customer patterns and validated on AMD with vLLM.

AMD launches the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform, a $3,999 mini PC with 128GB unified memory and Windows 11 support, competing with Nvidia's DGX Spark for local AI workloads.

AMD denied a $10,000 bug bounty to researcher Paul LaRosa after he discovered a critical HTTP vulnerability in AMD's Windows auto-updater, allowing man-in-the-middle attacks; the company took 124 days to fix the issue and still uses weak CRC32 checksums.

Arbor introduces structured tree search as a cognition layer for autonomous agents, enabling multi-day, full-stack LLM inference optimization with up to 193% throughput-latency improvement over vendor baselines through a checks-and-balances multi-agent architecture.

This article deeply analyzes the early career of AMD CEO Lisa Su, focusing on her choices at MIT and IBM to research hardcore technical problems such as SOI and copper interconnects, and actively supplementing her business judgment, emphasizing her judgment to pick hard, specific, and deliverable problems rather than chasing trends.

xdna-top is a terminal monitor that shows both NPU and iGPU activity on Ryzen AI Max/Strix Halo systems, providing an honest view of NPU counter deltas instead of fake utilization percentages.