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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 09, 2026
At this week's SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography conference in Monterey, Intel Foundry and ASML presented a status update regarding the commercialization and high-volume manufacturing (HVM) deployment of High Numerical Aperture...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Sep 05, 2026
The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Aug 25, 2026
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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Aaron Leong - Tue, Aug 25, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 25, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 21, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Thu, Aug 20, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 19, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Tue, Aug 18, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Aug 17, 2026
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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Chris Harper - Mon, Aug 17, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 12, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Aug 10, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Thu, Aug 06, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Thu, Jul 30, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 29, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 29, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Fri, Jul 24, 2026
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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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 24, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 22, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Fri, Jul 17, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 15, 2026
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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