Tag: Processors

AMD’s flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute

AMD’s flagship Strix Halo…

We’ve been writing about Strix Halo for so long, without actually seeing any working hardware, that you’d be forgiven…
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires: ‘Leading Intel has been the honor of my lifetime’

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger…

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is retiring, effective immediately. The company boss that sought to lead the company’s resurgence in…
Qualcomm reckons it will be flogging $4 billion worth of PC CPUs annually by 2029 which is about what AMD sold in 2023

Qualcomm reckons it will…

Qualcomm had its annual investor day yesterday and with that comes news that the company expects to be selling…
Nvidia’s new ‘AI PC’ social media channel has me foaming at the bit for the in-house CPU we all want

Nvidia’s new ‘AI PC’…

Everyone knows Nvidia’s king of the very large and very frightening AI castle, but it hasn’t stretched those tendrils…
It’s 2026, CES is over, and there’s still no sign of Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh, but one hardware channel is adamant it’ll be here in the spring

It’s 2026, CES is…

After a rough few years, Intel has clearly been hoping for better times, and it’s fair to say that…
The top ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips, with the two-year old Ryzen 7 5700X sitting at the tippety-top and Intel’s best effort relegated to 12th place

The top ten best…

When you’ve been following PC gaming hardware for as long as I have, there are certain norms that have…
MSI responds to reports of 9800X3D CPUs ‘burning out’ in its motherboards but the problem seems limited for now

MSI responds to reports…

Is AMD’s hot new Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU going into meltdown? Two reports from gamers experiencing dramatic CPU…
Nvidia’s first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop

Nvidia’s first Arm APU…

We’ve suspected that Nvidia’s making an Arm processor for over a year, now, but how it will be built,…
Not that any PC gamer will care but Intel is lining up low-power Arrow Lake chips for launch in January

Not that any PC…

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S don’t have much going for them in terms of gaming performance, but they’re generally…
AMD’s 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you’ve got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year

AMD’s 2025 laptop plans…

It’s hard to believe that 2025 is only two months away now but with lots of new gaming PC…