Items tagged with Intel
What kind of hardware do you need for AI processing? Well, every kind, because "AI processing" is a very broad term. Unlike a lot of specialized AI chips (e.g. d-Matrix Raptor), though, Intel's Crescent Island seems fit to serve many of...
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Intel unveiled key package design and architecture details of its next-generation Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids processors for data center servers, featuring a massive architecture overhaul with up to 16 CPU tiles and 1.28GB of cache specifically...
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At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed the silicon and packaging trade-offs behind its Core Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Wildcat Lake, revealing how it reduced the compute die area by 38% compared to Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series...
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The global PC processor market experienced an unexpected surge in the second quarter of 2026, with total x86 and Arm-based CPU shipments growing more than 10% sequentially to defy normal seasonal trends, according to fresh data from...
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How's your Throwback Thursday going? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an anecdote about his days at Intel as part of...
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Hardware enthusiasts and regular HotHardware readers will already be well aware that we're eagerly awaiting the next-generation showdown between Intel's Nova Lake processors and AMD's Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs, either very late this year or...
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Framework is giving its compact and modular 12.2-inch convertible laptop a substantial performance and efficiency overhaul. The updated Framework Laptop 12 swaps out its original 13th Gen Intel chips in favor of Intel’s latest Core Series...
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If you're up on the latest Intel leaks, you'll be well aware that the company's upcoming Nova Lake processors are expected to take the fight to AMD in a major way with Intel's own implementation of a 'big cache' design, known as "bLLC,"...
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Speaking to Tom's Hardware, Intel VP and GM (of "enthusiast channel business") Robert Hallock says he thinks AMD's controversial decision to launch its new Zen 6 architecture in the datacenter is "a natural reaction" and "makes a lot of...
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Word on the grapevine points toward the possibility of an entry-level Intel Panther Lake chip specifically targeted at handheld gaming devices. These new handhelds would be cut down to just 4 Performance Cores, 4 Low Power Efficiency (LPE)...
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Qualcomm has finally detailed the specifications and performance metrics for its entry-tier Snapdragon C platform, setting its sights directly on the budget laptop market and $300 Windows PCs.
Targeted at students, families, small...
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Absolutely indispensable hardware identification and monitoring utility HWiNFO has no direct Linux equivalent, and that's one of the most frustrating things about using Linux as an enthusiast. The app frequently gets pre-release...
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Intel hasn't released a graphics-focused desktop processor since the beloved (but not for its graphics) Broadwell-C family back in 2015. Since then, AMD has completely cornered the market for budget desktop gaming and SFF PC builds with...
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A SiSoftware benchmark for an early engineering sample of Intel's upcoming Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" processor, spotted by 188号 (@Momomo_US on Xwitter), shows promising progress for Intel's 18A-P followup to its 18A fabrication node. This...
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Intel is famously protective of the keys to the x86 kingdom, making its latest strategic move both highly unusual and undeniably fascinating. According to a Reuters report from yesterday, the semiconductor giant is handing over the...
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Enthusiasts had been clamoring for an all P-core Raptor Lake, but one never materialized, at least initially. The company would eventually make such a CPU, the Core 9 273PQE, but it's esoteric and rare, and it doesn't actually offer much...
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Intel's rumored desktop CPU with a surprisingly beefy integrated GPU is starting to look like a truly odd product. According to prolific leaker Jaykihn, the Nova Lake-S SKU with integrated 12-Xe GPU that we previously reported on will...
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Hyper-Threading is what Intel calls its implementation of what is more academically known as "Simultaneous Multi-Threading" (SMT). This describes a method where a single processor core can interleave processing of two or more separate...
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Intel nearly made a mockery of Wall Street estimates by blowing past expectations with $16.1 billion in second-quarter revenue, fueled by what company CEO Lip-Bu Tan called "unprecedented demand" for AI hardware. In doing so, Intel's...
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In a recent newsroom post, Intel is making a case that might sound counterintuitive in an industry obsessed with TOPS, TFLOPS, and ever-larger GPU clusters, but which AI enthusiasts and server operators have known for a while: the most...
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We have a fair bit of information on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, including that the chips will top out at 52 cores and some 474W power draw, as well as what seems to be a fairly complete list of SKUs for the desktop family...
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ASML and Intel Foundry announced today that a subset of Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake processors are now rolling off production lines utilizing the industry's first commercial High-NA EUV scanner. This is a pretty big deal...
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