Tag: Processors

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…
Intel’s future might be rosier now that Nvidia is partially on board but at this moment in time, AMD rules every roost in the CPU coop

Intel’s future might be…

If there’s one thing that’s predictable about the tech world, it’s that it’s all very unpredictable. I mean, who…
Intel says Arc GPUs aren’t going anywhere just yet despite the new Nvidia collaboration

Intel says Arc GPUs…

Our Jeremy said it best when he reported on the surprise announcement of an Intel-Nvidia collaboration yesterday: it’s cats…
‘We’re going to build revolutionary products’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: ‘Nothing of its kind has ever been built before’

‘We’re going to build…

Speaking at a press conference earlier this evening, Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, and Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan took questions…
If you’re wondering what those newly announced Intel-Nvidia PC chips might look like, there’s already an Nvidia ‘Superchip’ that could provide the answers

If you’re wondering what…

So Intel and Nvidia dropped a CPU-GPU bomb earlier today, announcing a distinctly unexpected plan to collab’ on new…
Researchers argue that ‘at least 40%’ of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency

Researchers argue that ‘at…

The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. We’ve had people declaring the impending ascent…
China’s upcoming all-CPU supercomputer plans to add an extra 47,000 processors in its second phase, and aims to be one of the fastest in the world

China’s upcoming all-CPU supercomputer…

I love a supercomputer reveal, and this one’s a little different than most. China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen…
Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch

Intel has rebranded the…

Ah, you know how it is. You start looking for a pen, or a sticky note, or maybe some…
‘This is a fundamentally different company today’: Intel reports strong financial results, says its upcoming 14A process is already outpacing early 18A yields

‘This is a fundamentally…

Intel has reported its first-quarter 2026 financial results, and they read as something of a victory lap. It wasn’t…