Tag: Processors

Intel announces Arrow Lake ‘Plus’ desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting ‘BOT’ tool

Intel announces Arrow Lake…

Much rumoured, perhaps not necessarily all that anticipated, Intel’s refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs have finally arrived. We give you…
Intel has just 18 months to ‘land a hero customer on 14A’ or its cutting-edge fabs are toast, says chip industry analyst

Intel has just 18…

Intel has just 18 months to land a big customer or its cutting-edge fabs are history. That’s according to…
It’s the scantest of rumours but given AMD’s track record, I actually believe the claim that the Ryzen 9000G series will be nothing more than an 8000G refresh

It’s the scantest of…

Although they take a while to appear with each new generation of Ryzen processors, AMD always converts some of…
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2…

Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 CPU has appeared in the Geekbench results browser for the first time (via Notebookcheck)…
The core in Nvidia’s upcoming PC processor achieves ‘performance parity’ with Intel and AMD’s latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?

The core in Nvidia’s…

The hardcore microarchitectrure analysts at Chips and Cheese have turned their beady gaze towards Nvidia’s GB10 ‘Superchip’ and concluded…
Intel’s German megafab dream is over: CEO Lip-Bu Tan kills the project, beset with setbacks from EU funding to ancient neolithic remains, to save cash

Intel’s German megafab dream…

Intel has cancelled plans for a so-called megafab in Germany and a packaging plant in Poland. It also plans…
‘I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come’ says Intel’s new CEO, calling past investments ‘unwise and excessive’

‘I do not subscribe…

Well, nobody thought it was going to be pretty, but Intel’s Q2 earnings reports and related forecasts are even…
The reason Nvidia’s upcoming Arm CPU is delayed is apparently in part because Microsoft isn’t sorting out its next-gen OS quickly enough

The reason Nvidia’s upcoming…

Just one week ago, I reported that we might have to wait until next year to see custom Arm…
Intel job losses mount as 4,000 layoffs are reported across multiple sites in California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona

Intel job losses mount…

Reports of job losses at Intel are reaching critical mass. In the past week, layoffs totalling around 4,000 people…
Finally, a good use for crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs: You can track Europe’s record-breaking heatwaves as they fall over, according a Firefox browser dev

Finally, a good use…

As Europe’s summer heatwave smolders on, a novel way of tracking the record-breaking temps has emerged, namely crashing Intel…