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2026
AMD acquires AI firm World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD acquired AI firm World Labs for $8.2 billion. AMD shares traded more than 1% higher in premarket trading following the news.
2026
AMD announces $8.2 billion all-stock acquisition of World Labs
Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, that it agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco-based AI lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction. AMD had previously invested in World Labs, and the deal is the chipmaker's second-largest acquisition on record, after its roughly $50 billion purchase of Xilinx in 2022. World Labs is developing a so-called world model used to simulate 3D environments. Li will become AMD's chief scientist and an executive vice president, and AMD plans to keep World Labs separate from its chipmaking business until the transaction closes later this year.
2026
World Labs co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li to become AMD EVP and chief scientist
As part of AMD's announced acquisition of World Labs, World Labs co-founder and CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li will become EVP and chief scientist at AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Lisa Su.
2026
AMD releases ROCm 10 and moves ROCm.AI to GA
AMD released ROCm 10 on August 27, 2026, and announced that ROCm.AI is now generally available. ROCm.AI combines Hyperloom for autonomous end-to-end inference workload optimization, AMD Skills that inject verified ROCm knowledge into AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and ROCm CLI for environment installation, model serving, diagnostics and runtime management. ROCm 10 advances a modular ROCm Core SDK, unifies Windows and Linux SDK definitions, and updates libraries, compilers, frameworks and hardware support, with official containers for inference frameworks including vLLM and SGLang delivered alongside the release.
2026
Lenovo launches V14 Gen 6 AMN 14-inch laptop
Lenovo launched the 14-inch V14 Gen 6 AMN laptop on August 26, 2026, featuring a 47Wh battery with over 19 hours of runtime under JEITA-BAT 3.0 testing at 200 nits, and AMD Athlon Silver 10, Ryzen 3 30, or Ryzen 5 40 processor options with 8GB memory (upgradeable to 16GB on the Ryzen 5 40 version) and 256GB or 512GB M.2 2242 SSD storage.
2026
AMD releases Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1 driver
AMD released Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1, adding support for the Radeon RX 9050 4 GB GPU and for upcoming titles including Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, STAR WARS Zero Company, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta Early Access, and fixing bugs on RX 7000 and RX 9000 series cards.
2026
Cerebras launches CS-4 rack-scale AI inference system
Cerebras Systems unveiled the Cerebras CS-4, a rack-scale AI system built on three Wafer Scale Engine 3 Turbo processors, at its SUPERNOVA event in San Francisco. The company claims it is the industry's fastest AI accelerator, with 750 PFLOPs of AI compute and over 4,400 tokens per second per user on GPT-OSS-120B, up to 30 times faster than GPU alternatives. Shipments are expected to begin in the third quarter of 2026, with a small number of customers currently sampling the system.
2026
AMD appoints Tim Ryan to board of directors
AMD announced the appointment of Tim Ryan to its board of directors effective Aug. 19, 2026, along with related committee changes: KC McClure named chair of the Audit and Finance Committee and appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and lead independent director Nora Denzel joined the Audit and Finance Committee. The changes follow the retirement of Joseph Householder after more than 11 years on the AMD board.
2026
AMD announces acquisition of AI inference chip company Taalas
AMD announced the acquisition of Taalas, a company specializing in AI inference chips that hard-code models into silicon. After the acquisition, AMD plans to combine Taalas technology with AMD Instinct GPUs to build system-level solutions offering differentiated inference performance and energy efficiency.
2026
ASRock Industrial launches AI BOX-A395 with AiKMSpark enterprise AI knowledge platform
ASRock Industrial announced the AI BOX-A395, an on-premises enterprise AI workstation powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with up to 126 TOPS, exclusively bundled with the AiKMSpark enterprise AI knowledge management platform to help enterprises deploy generative AI locally while keeping data on-premises.
2026
AMD to acquire Taalas to strengthen AI inference technology
AMD announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based pioneer in specialized AI inference silicon founded in 2023. AMD plans to integrate Taalas' inference technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions with AMD Instinct GPUs. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
2022
AMD reduces prices on Ryzen 5000-series CPUs
AMD reduced prices on six Ryzen 5000-series consumer CPUs; the article lists reductions for several models, including the Ryzen 9 5950X from $799 to $599.
2022
AMD Ryzen 6000 Mobile processors launch
AMD's Ryzen 6000 Mobile processor series launched, bringing Zen 3+ cores, RDNA2 integrated graphics, and support for DDR5 memory to AMD-based notebooks.
2022
AMD announces board appointments
AMD announced that CEO Lisa Su would also become board chair and that former Xilinx directors Jon Olson and Elizabeth Vanderslice would join AMD's board.
2022
Google introduces C2D compute-optimized instances
Google introduced C2D, a compute-optimized virtual machine instance type using third-generation AMD EPYC processors.
2022
China conditionally approves AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation conditionally approved AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx, requiring the transaction parties and the combined entity to comply with specified conditions.
2022
Samsung announces Exynos 2200 mobile processor
Samsung announced the Exynos 2200, a new in-house mobile processor that includes a GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture.
2022
Samsung unveils Exynos 2200 mobile processor
Samsung unveiled its Exynos 2200 mobile processor, featuring an Xclipse GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture.
2022
Samsung begins Exynos 2200 mass production
Samsung said it had begun mass production of the Exynos 2200, its first mobile processor with AMD RDNA 2 Xclipse graphics architecture.
2022
AMD launches Ryzen 6000 mobile processors
AMD launched its new Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors at an online event ahead of CES 2022.