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CVE-2026-63882: A Missing Check in AMD’s Linux Kernel Driver Can Crash Your System
Linux kernel maintainers have patched a newly cataloged flaw in AMD’s GPU compute stack that can trigger an instant system crash. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63882, was published on July...
Patch Now: AMDGPU Kernel Race Condition (CVE-2026-63879) Opens Linux Systems to Local Attacks
On July 19, 2026, the Linux kernel security team disclosed CVE-2026-63879, a high-severity vulnerability in the AMDGPU driver that could let a local attacker read or corrupt sensitive memory. The...
Azure Taps AMD's Helios AI Racks to Ease Compute Crunch, but Capacity Details Remain Scarce
Microsoft committed to a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure, giving Azure’s own services and its paying cloud customers access to...
Microsoft Previews AMD-Powered Azure VMs for AI and HPC, but They’re Not Ready Yet
Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on three new Azure virtual machine families built with next-generation AMD silicon, but IT buyers hoping to spin up instances this quarter will be disappointed:...
AMD’s New PCIe Card Puts 144GB of HBM3E Within Reach of Conventional Servers
AMD has started showing off the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe 5.0 accelerator card that packs 144GB of high-bandwidth HBM3E memory, at multiple industry events this summer. The card brings server-grade AI...
AMD’s Agentic AI Vision Means Your Windows PC Is About to Get Much Smarter—and More Demanding
Mark Papermaster, AMD’s chief technology officer, delivered a blunt message to enterprise leaders on July 8, 2026: agentic AI is forcing a fundamental rethink of how we build computing...
AMD ROCm ROCDXG Brings Production Open Source GPU Compute to WSL on Windows 11
AMD has officially released ROCDXG production open source support for Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11, marking a significant advancement for GPU compute development on Microsoft's platform....
AMD ROCm on Windows: The Open Source CUDA Alternative Gains Momentum
AMD's ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) platform has quietly but substantially tightened its grip as a viable open-source alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA, delivering a run of platform and developer-facing...
Microsoft Challenges Nvidia CUDA Dominance with AMD ROCm Integration
Microsoft is making strategic moves to disrupt Nvidia's long-standing dominance in the AI hardware ecosystem by developing software that enables AI models built for Nvidia's CUDA platform to run...
Oracle's AMD GPU Integration: A Game-Changer for Cloud AI Performance
Oracle's strategic integration of AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marks a pivotal shift in the cloud computing landscape. This bold move challenges Nvidia's...
AMD Revolutionizes AI Infrastructure with Cutting-Edge Hardware & Strategic Partnerships
AMD is rapidly transforming the AI infrastructure landscape with a bold strategy that combines next-generation hardware, open-source software, and high-profile partnerships. The company's Instinct...
Microsoft Azure NVads V710 v5 VMs Launch with AMD Radeon Pro V710 and EPYC CPUs
Introduction The surge in demand for cloud computing resources, particularly to support AI inference, real-time graphics, advanced visualization, and other compute-intensive applications, is pushing...