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Microsoft’s chip partner just gave us a hard timing marker: AMD CEO Lisa Su told investors that development of “Microsoft’s next‑gen Xbox featuring an AMD semi‑custom SoC is progressing well to support a launch in 2027,” a cautious but unmistakable signal that the company’s engineering timeline...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a targeted Phi Silica AI component refresh for Copilot+ PCs with AMD silicon — a model-package update that installs Phi Silica version 1.2511.1196.0 via Windows Update and is intended to improve on‑device inference and reliability for NPU‑enabled Copilot+ experiences...

AMD’s comment last week that its custom silicon is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027” has reset the public timeline for Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox — but industry reporting since has been unequivocal: supplier readiness is not the same thing as a locked-in release date, and 2027...

Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox is reportedly being rebuilt on a Windows-derived core, designed to support multiple digital storefronts and a family of OEM devices — a strategy that would reshape Xbox from a single-purpose living-room console into a Windows-centric, cross-device gaming...

Microsoft's next console looks less like a sealed appliance and more like a living, breathing Windows 11 PC wearing a controller-friendly skin — at least that's the picture painted by multiple recent reports and industry signals pointing to a Gen‑10 Xbox that runs full Windows 11 beneath a...

SteamOS has moved from curiosity to contender: Valve’s Linux-based gaming OS now offers a genuine alternative to Windows for a wide swath of players, particularly those with AMD hardware and a Steam-centric library — but the switch is pragmatic, not panacea. Steam Deck Gains Proton 7.0 Support...

Microsoft has quietly published a targeted component update for AMD’s on‑device AI stack — KB5077529 — which bumps the Vitis AI Execution Provider to version 1.8.50.0 and is being delivered through Windows Update for Windows 11 systems running 24H2 and 25H2. (support.microsoft.com) Background...

If you’ve been hunting for an “Outlet Online Bluetooth Driver 5.0.1.1500.zip” package to make Bluetooth work on a Windows 7 PC with AMD hardware, pause and read this first: the file name and version you quoted — 5.0.1.1500 — is a real, widely distributed Broadcom/WIDCOMM-era driver build that...

AMD’s machine‑learning driven FSR “Redstone” landed as part of the Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver in December 2025, but the full suite of features is explicitly built for RDNA 4 (Radeon RX 9000) silicon — leaving owners of RDNA 3 GPUs watching from the sidelines and asking whether that door might ever...

Valve’s SteamOS has finally reached the point where a casual, AMD‑based gamer can seriously consider wiping Windows and running a full-time gaming PC on a Linux‑first stack — the experience is smooth, installs are short, controllers and headsets are well supported, and the Proton toolchain has...

Valve’s SteamOS has evolved from a handheld-first curiosity into a viable desktop OS for many PC gamers — and for AMD-based rigs in particular, recent driver, Proton, and tooling updates have made the prospect of leaving Windows for SteamOS more realistic than it was two years ago. Background /...

Steam’s final Hardware & Software Survey of 2025 produced a decisive pair of storylines that set the tone for PC gaming in 2026: AMD closed significant ground on Intel in the CPU race among Steam users, and Windows 11 expanded its lead over Windows 10 inside Valve’s gamer‑centric...

AMD has officially pushed FSR “Redstone” into the wild as part of the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.12.1 driver package, delivering a consolidated, machine-learning-powered suite that bundles upscaling, frame generation, ray-tracing denoising, and a future radiance-caching system — but the...

AMD’s latest chipset package is a pragmatic, low‑profile release with an outsized practical impact: the AMD Ryzen™ Chipset Driver 7.11.26.2142 (and related tooling updates) formally add Windows 11 version 25H2 compatibility for a range of Platform Management Framework (PMF) components, refine...

Microsoft’s December cumulative has quietly absorbed an earlier preview patch that many gamers credit with stopping mid‑session AMD GPU crashes, but the fix is more nuanced than social posts suggest and still requires cautious rollout and testing before you declare victory. Background / Overview...

AMD’s December driver push — a Windows 11 WHQL build labeled Adrenalin 25.12.1 — arrives as more than a routine maintenance release: it is the first broadly distributed driver package that ties AMD’s new FSR Redstone machine‑learning upscaling stack to practical performance gains on consumer...

Microsoft released the final Patch Tuesday package for December 2025 — KB5072033 — and it arrives as more than a routine security rollup: it advances Windows 11 25H2 to Build 26200.7462 (and 24H2 to Build 26100.7462), ships deeper dark‑mode polish, centralizes virtualization controls in...

The Linux kernel received a targeted fix in May 2025 for a display stack bug in AMD’s DRM driver that could hang a system when DisplayPort link training failed — the patch forces the display code to fall back to the reference clock instead of assuming the PHY clock is available, preventing a...

A high‑profile benchmarking video from Gamers Nexus — conducted on a Fedora‑based gaming image called Bazzite and covering modern GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD — argues that Linux gaming is no longer niche and, in many real‑world cases, is good enough to be a practical alternative to Windows for...

AMD has quietly pushed an updated RAID driver and RAIDXpert2 utility aimed at making AMD-based systems ready for Microsoft's Windows 11 version 25H2 — but the release comes with a long list of caveats that make this one of the more cautious driver updates in recent memory. Background Modern AMD...