Mendocino

Death cap. Pine spike. Shaggy mane. Hideous Gomphidius.No, these aren’t the names of punk bands from your local high school — they’re just some of the mushroom varieties that grow in Northern California.Mushroom season is underway in Mendocino County, home to roughly 3,000 mushroom varieties (500 of which you can safely eat!). In other words: If you needed an excuse to make the 500-mile journey from L.A. to Mendocino’s stunning stretch of coastline, this is it.In this edition of Escapes, you’ll find a few ways to embrace…

According to a report by Phoronix, patch notes from open-source project Coreboot have confirmed AMD's mysterious Sabrina project - destined to power Chromebooks - was just an alias for AMD's recently announced Zen 2 Mendocino SoCs. These new chips have already been confirmed to drop into mainstream Windows laptops and Google Chromebooks by Q4 this year.These chips will give Chromebooks access to a newly enhanced Zen 2 core shrunk down to 6nm, RDNA2 integrated graphics, and LPDDR5 memory.For the uninitiated, this story…

AMD's Mendocino APU, launched at Computex with just the briefest of technical details, doesn't seem to be as exciting as many had hoped. One of the major omissions of the Mendocino Computex briefing was any talk about the number of RDNA 2 graphics compute units (CUs) it would come packing. Now a leaked slide via Olrak seems to indicate that the best Mendocino APU device buyers can hope for is two CUs, which means 128 stream processors (SPs). As this is a leak, take the news with a pinch of salt.Putting the above CU and…

AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su announced some details of the company's upcoming Ryzen 7000 series CPUs at her Computex 2022 keynote, along with a new AM5 socket and 600-series chipsets for motherboards that will accompany them. The company also teased an upcoming ‘Mendocino' CPU lineup for affordable mainstream laptops and Chromebooks as well as a new SmartAccess Storage feature for high-performance laptops. While specific details of models, pricing, and features were not disclosed, AMD did say that these products will launch by the…

AMD has announced Mendocino today, a new breed of mobile APUs that aims to redefine the everyday laptop. While Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) targets premium notebooks, Mendocino caters to mainstream laptops that compete in the $399 to $699 price range.Rembrandt brings AMD's Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics into a single package. With Mendocino, however, the chipmaker opted to roll with the Zen 2 microarchitecture instead but retained the RDNA 2 solution. It's the exact blueprint that AMD used for Van Gogh, from which Aerith…