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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 16, 2025
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI 300 series lineup of mobile processors with the quiet addition of a new entry-level model, the Ryzen AI 5 330. Officially another Krackan Point part (and unofficially, Krackan Point 2), the mobile part should pave the way for Copilot+ branded laptops to hit more...
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Zak Killian - Fri, May 30, 2025
We recently posted an article that explored the idea of serious gaming on integrated graphics. In that post, we were using an older Ryzen 5 5600G chip to prove our point, but AMD's Ryzen 8000G processors are much faster. (We're about to...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 16, 2025
Folks, we're living in some strange and wild times. Don't worry, we're not diving into politics or anything like that—we know how to say in our lane, which is technology. And as it relates to tech, the latest market share results by...
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, Apr 23, 2025
TSMC's N2 (2nm) chip fab reportedly has a new customer: Intel, who joins the ranks of AMD and Apple tapping the Taiwanese fab goliath's bleeding edge production lines. It's not the first time that Intel and TSMC struck a deal, but it's...
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Bruno Ferreira - Tue, Apr 22, 2025
If you're the proud owner of an Intel Core Ultra 200-series CPU, rejoice, as there may be good gaming gains to be gotten from a new BIOS feature that Intel is rolling out. Intel's engineers dubbed the new feature the 200S Boost...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 03, 2025
It should come as no surprise that the best-selling CPU on Amazon is AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a fantastic chip for gaming and one that managed to earn our Editor's Choice award when we reviewed it last November. And maybe you wouldn't be...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 31, 2025
Intel posted its first earnings report since Pat Gelsinger retired from his post as Chief Executive Officer, and it largely shows the continued efforts of a major restructuring strategy that began before he left. For example, fourth...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 20, 2025
At first glance, the processor in the photo above appears to be a genuine Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. It sports AMD's uniquely-shaped integrated heatspreader (IHS) with grooves exposing the PCB on all four sides, it's labeled as a Ryzen 7...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
Several major players in the PC space have made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and that includes AMD, which unveiled an onslaught of new processors. We saw AMD expand its 3D V-Cache lineup with more desktop...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
In addition to expanding its processor lineup across both mobile and desktop at CES 2025, Intel also provided an update on Panther Lake. Well, it's more of a reiteration really, with Intel announcing that Panther Lake is still on track to...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 02, 2025
At present moment, AMD can't supply its retail partners with enough Ryzen 7 9800X3D models to meet the insatiable demand by gamers. It's the first (and so far only) desktop processor based on Zen 5 to wield AMD's second-generation 3D...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 27, 2024
AMD made some key changes to its second generation 3D V-Cache design that allows it to be more flexible with clock speeds, and rumor has it that both the upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D will feature the same top speeds as...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 19, 2024
Intel has gone and quietly unveiled several Core 200H series processors for laptops, which we were not expecting to officially surface until the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month. Perhaps in an effort to get ahead of the leaks...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 09, 2024
Have you been trying unsuccessfully to score AMD's fancy new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors with a heap of extra L3 cache for gaming workloads? You're not alone—it remains sold out at every reputable retailer we checked. You might not find any...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 26, 2024
If you're building a gaming PC from the ground up, chances are, you have AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor on your radar. At the time of this writing, it remains the one and only consumer Zen 5 processor with a heaping pile of 3D V-Cache. It...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a heaping pile of 3D V-Cache to give gaming a boost is one of the best-selling CPUs on Amazon. It's also a brand new and highly-anticipated addition to AMD's Ryzen 9000 series, being the first X3D model in the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 19, 2024
It's not really a secret that Intel plans on fleshing out its Arrow Lake lineup on the desktop, at least in part with lower power SKUs of the 65W and 35W variety—Robert Hallock, Intel's VP and GM, Client AI & Technical Marketing, told us...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 18, 2024
Finding a Ryzen 7 9800X3D in stock from a reputable vendor is proving the quite the challenge, as pent-up demand for AMD's newest generation processor with 3D V-Cache saw a flurry of sales deplete whatever initial inventory retailers might...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 13, 2024
If you have not done so already, we highly recommended checking out our recent chat with Intel's VP and GM, Client AI & Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, who dished some interesting details about Arrow Lake. One of the interesting...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 09, 2024
AMD continues to chip away at rival Intel's lead in desktop processor market share, with a not-insignificant 5.7% leap in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest auditing figures by Mercury Research. And compared to a year ago...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 08, 2024
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you managed to procure an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D before retailers ran out of stock. As expected, the 9800X3D, which we deemed to be an "ideal CPU for PC gamers" in our review, is proving immensely...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 31, 2024
In what might comes as a surprise to some and not to others, early demand for Intel's fresh-out-of-the-oven Core Ultra 200S processors appears virtually non-existent at Mindfactory, the largest online PC parts retailer in Germany...
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