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How “amd” trended on Hacker News

“Amd” was mentioned 72,668 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2020 with 1,475 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “amd” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
72,668
Peak month
Nov 2020 (1,475)
First seen
2007
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What the chart shows

AMD has been discussed on Hacker News since 2007 and totals 72,668 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in November 2020 with 1,475 mentions, around the Zen 3 / Ryzen 5000 launch.

Top threads cluster on CPUs and the GPU software stack: the Zen 3 announcement, efforts to run CUDA unmodified on AMD GPUs, the open-sourced ROCm-based CUDA implementation, and Linux driver work. The term stayed active through 2026.

Top Hacker News stories about “amd”

  1. 1.Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs 1,330 points · 399 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source 1,045 points · 410 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip 837 points · 255 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs 772 points · 212 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] 761 points · 674 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel 707 points · 462 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.AMD Ryzen 3000 announced 657 points · 339 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors 640 points · 293 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards 633 points · 224 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD 618 points · 202 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.AMD to Acquire Xilinx 593 points · 252 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive 590 points · 342 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN

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