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Zak Killian - Sat, Jun 06, 2026
If you're a hardware enthusiast, you're probably already aware that Intel's Independent Loading Mechanism or ILM, which is the retention clamp that holds the CPU in the socket, can cause CPU warping over time. Intel released a "reduced...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jun 02, 2026
There's been a lot of chatter recently about the fact that Intel's next-generation platform is expected to last for at least three CPU generations, and possibly four. Of course, you're still going to have to buy the next-generation...
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Zak Killian - Wed, May 27, 2026
Intel's Core Ultra Series 300 processors, better known by their code name "Panther Lake," already come in a variety of configurations thanks to their tiled design. That trend is likely only going to expand with its next-generation Nova...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, May 19, 2026
Intel’s next desktop CPU family is apparently hitting shipping lanes, albeit as early engineering samples. Nova Lake is expected to be a much bolder reset than merely a routine refresh and could become Intel’s most aggressive swing at the...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Apr 14, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Apr 13, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Sat, Apr 04, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Mon, Feb 16, 2026
So, this one's really straightforward. If you've kept up with news about Intel's Nova Lake—its next-next-gen desktop processors—you'll have already heard that the chip is said to support the use of two compute tiles, much as AMD's desktop...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Feb 12, 2026
Intel's Nova Lake-S desktop processors, likely to be branded the "Core Ultra 400" series and expected to launch late this year or early next year, are the topic of significant speculation. The company's current-generation chips have a...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 10, 2026
Intel's current Core Ultra 200-series processors offer excellent productivity performance, competent gaming performance, and solid power efficiency. A lot of fans are banking on the company's next-generation Nova Lake parts to be its true...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 23, 2026
Intel's fourth quarter earnings are in and they reflect a 4.1% year-over-year loss to $13.7 billion (same as the previous quarter), bringing the full-year tally to a flat $52.9 billion. According to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the company...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 24, 2025
AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processor with 3D V-Cache may kick things up in a big way to compete with Intel's upcoming Nova Lake chips. How so? According to a popular leaker on X, AMD will offer single CCD (core complex die) variants with...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Nov 21, 2025
Intel has already established that the graphics parts of Panther Lake are using the Xe3 architecture, but that they will be branded as part of the Arc B-series. The given rationale is that the first-generation Xe3 graphics products...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Nov 13, 2025
Intel's been making moves under the radar lately, and they're good news for Team Blue—not only do the most recent GitHub Intel Xess 2,1 SDK patch notes reveal that Frame Gen is coming to Core Ultra 100-series iGPUs, but the 60th Edition of...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Oct 23, 2025
Remember how, back in 2023, we reported on Intel's AVX10? Intel said that the new standard would be backward compatible with all of the AVX-512 instruction set extensions, and that at some point, the new AVX10.2 would come along that would...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Sep 10, 2025
Intel execs have made some strong statements about its Nova Lake processors, including that they expect the chips to recover the "leadership" position in the desktop PC market, and based on the leaks we've seen, it might just do that...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Sep 02, 2025
If you've read our previous reporting on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, you'll be well aware that the latest rumors have described the desktop CPUs as being tile-based designs rather similar to AMD's chiplet processors, utilizing...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Aug 29, 2025
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, Deutsche Bank Securities hosted its 2025 Technology Conference in Dana Point, California. At the conference, Intel's Chief Finanical Officer David Zinsner participated in a 'fireside chat' where he was...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Aug 13, 2025
One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more generation of CPUs coming to the DDR5-based...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jul 17, 2025
Just yesterday we learned of the existence of an "AX" model of Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors. Intel uses letters to describe its mobile processors' power budgets, scaling through "Y", "U", "P", "H", and then "HX" at the top with...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 16, 2025
Before AMD revealed its Ryzen AI MAX ("Strix Halo") processors, we had many leaks and rumors about the capabilities of the chips: massive integrated GPU, desktop-class CPU horsepower, and a double-wide 256-bit memory interface to feed it...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jul 15, 2025
Intel's next major processor release is expected to be the Panther Lake family of mobile processors, directly succeeding last year's popular Lunar Lake chips. Those parts will be fabricated on Intel's own 18A process, which by all accounts...
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