Tag: Processors

Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD’s dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores

Intel will reportedly take…

Intel is planning to sock it to AMD’s dominant X3D CPUs with a 52-core version of its upcoming Nova…
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it’s ever been

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D…

This is the best CPU you can buy for gaming, though it’s also a very good all-round processor. If…
A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain ‘why you can’t trust online bench databases’

A few Redditors faked…

Last week, a pretty special result showed up in a widely accessible benchmarking website. It seemingly suggested a new…
Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore’s law alive for as long as possible

Electronics researchers have developed…

For 60 years, Gordon Moore’s observation that transistor counts in integrated circuits would double roughly every two years has…
The latest Intel Panther Lake CPU leak details next-gen Core Ultra 300 range with high-performance graphics restricted to a new ‘X’ model line

The latest Intel Panther…

A new leak detailing what appears to be the full next-gen Intel Panther Lake mobile CPU range has emerged.…
Intel’s morale is reportedly ‘in the toilet’ as the chip maker strives to be ‘really lean, fast moving’

Intel’s morale is reportedly…

Intel’s woes the last decade or so are well-enough documented. So, it’s not a huge surprise to find a…
‘Are we going to bet the company’s road map on chiplets?’ AMD’s CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes

‘Are we going to…

Given how much AMD dominates the world of CPUs and gaming in general, it might seem strange to picture…
Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen chips will reportedly see a 10% price hike soon, partly in response to ‘the lackluster performance of AI PCs’

Intel’s 13th and 14th…

If you’ve bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or…
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2, the first 5 GHz Arm CPU, its ‘biggest advance in PC gaming’ and the chip that might finally make gaming on Arm an actual thing

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2,…

Qualcomm has announced its second-gen Snapdragon X2 SoC for PCs and with it come some big claims, especially for…
Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia ‘have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year’ and ‘kept it really quiet’

Jensen Huang says Intel…

It’s not too often that I get a complete ‘out of the blue’ surprise in PC hardware land, but…