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Intel may be making an interesting move with its next generation of desktop processors. Recent reports suggest Intel will offer "more and more unlocked SKUs over time" with a goal to enable easy overclocking beyond just the higher-end Core...
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You don't need me to tell you things are bad in the PC DIY market; everybody knows things are bad. The memory crunch, severe enough to earn the moniker "RAMageddon", has grossly inflated the prices of graphics cards, game consoles, SSDs, and of course, memory. In what we can only describe as a...
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Back when Intel launched its Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors at CES, it teased that it had a forthcoming announcement for some handheld-optimized chips, too. The PC-based gaming handheld market is still niche compared to the...
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Intel's foundry ambitions have shifted from a hopeful turnaround story into a tangible powerhouse narrative. Following the momentum of its 18A node, the company's successor technology, the 1.4nm-class Intel 14A, is rapidly shaping up to be...
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Despite being labeled "very preliminary info" and advised not to report on it, this information is so peculiar that we had to drop a post about it. Here's the story: regular and usually reliable Intel leaker Jaykihn claims that Intel is...
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Intel fired a return shot at Apple's MacBook Neo with today's launch of its Core Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Wildcat Lake, based on the same Intel 18A process node as Panther Lake. While Intel is not releasing any laptops of...
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In recent years, processor models have broadly been like this: lots of cores with little integrated graphics, or a few cores with a big built-in GPU. This is because both AMD and Intel have shipped one design for desktops that includes...
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If you read this site regularly, you'll already be well-informed about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake family of processors; at least, as well-informed as it's possible to be from early leaks and rumors. We have another such leak on the news...
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Intel has unveiled a Gallium Nitride (GaN) chiplet measuring a mere 19 micrometers in thickness. First showcased at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in December last year, this advancement marks the first time GaN-on-Silicon...
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Our colleagues over at German site HardwareLuxx have posted up their full review of the Arc Pro B70, Intel's long-awaited top-end Battlemage GPU that finally launched last month. As you could guess from the name, the card is focused on...
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One concern following NVIDIA's introduction of its ultra-efficient Neural Texture Compression (NTC) was that it would remain proprietary to only NVIDIA's GPUs. Intel has since introduced its own similar technology, dubbed Texture Set...
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Going down the list of leaked Intel codenames, we have Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, Serpent Lake... wait, what the heck is Serpent Lake? Well, according to prominent hardware leaker Jaykihn (@Jaykihn0 on Xwitter), "Serpent Lake" is...
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Intel's Core Ultra 271HX mobile processor based on Arrow Lake-HX is now official, with Intel confirming the chip's existence after it was spotted in gaming laptop listings last month. That also means we have confirmation on the newest...
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Intel's "HX" processors have, for several generations now, been its top-end laptop silicon. That's because they hold a little secret: they're not really laptop-specific silicon, exactly. Instead, the "HX" processor family is typically a...
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Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's...
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Intel is making another major chip manufacturing investment, this time by buying back the 49% equity stake in its Fab 34 site in Ireland that it sold to Apollo in 2024. The $14.2 billion repurchase agreement will give Intel full control of...
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It would be easy to assume from the name that Wildcat Lake is the successor to Intel's recently launched Panther Lake CPUs, but wildcats aren't as big as panthers, and there's your clue as to what these CPUs actually are: the successors to...
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Channeling its inner Tony Montana from Scarface, Lenovo has a message for potential Mac mini buyers who prefer to stay within the Windows ecosystem, and that message is 'Say hello to my little friend!'. Or more precisely, say hello to the...
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It's still early, but the MacBook Neo may be the biggest threat to Windows laptops to date, particularly in the current climate that has seen certain PC component prices soar. A possible challenger could come in the form of Intel's...
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Did you read our review of the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Plus" processors? These chips are still Arrow Lake, but the new "Plus" descriptor marks the parts as being targeted at enthusiasts, and offering the highest performance...
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After months of benchmark leaks, the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus was a no-show when Intel unveiled its first Arrow Lake Refresh processors, which saw the launch of the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus on the desktop (see our...
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Well, it's not coming quite the way some might have hoped, but today is the day that Intel's BMG-G31 GPU arrives, in the form of the new Intel Arc Pro B70. This long-rumored card sports Intel's most powerful Arc GPU to date, with a full 32...
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