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Nothing has seemingly abandoned the traditional slow-burn reveal in favor of a blunt, early look at its next mid-range contender, the Phone 4a. After a couple of weeks of cryptic hints involving pink graffiti and vintage telephone cords...
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Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a long time spent at 8. However, a new Xwitter post from...
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AMD's Instinct MI400 series is its upcoming family of AI accelerators based on the company's "CDNA 5" architecture. AMD has made many lofty claims about MI400-series parts; particularly, it notes that the "Helios" rack-scale compute...
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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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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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If you read this site regularly, you probably know about AMD's Ryzen AI Max series. Codenamed Strix Halo, this is AMD's massive mega-chip with up to 16 CPU cores and Radeon RX 7600 XT-level integrated graphics. The next-generation version...
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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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The rumor mill is spinning once again, and if what we've heard is true, we could soon see a pricing increase of 6-10% for CPU coolers and power supplies. While this thankfully isn't in the same ballpark as the ongoing RAM crisis or...
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At its CES 2026 presentation, Intel announced both its Core Ultra Series 3 processors (codenamed "Panther Lake") as well as a forthcoming reference platform for gaming handhelds based on the chips. Looking at the available configurations...
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Apple is reportedly exploring camera technology currently being used in medical, archeology, and the military, with rumors suggesting the integration of multispectral imaging and high-resolution 200MP sensors in forthcoming iPhones. That...
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Over on X, Kepler_L2, one of the more trusted leakers in the industry, claims that AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture is slated for a mid-2027 release date, with chips being built on TSMC's N3P process. This claim emerged...
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We reported last week on some leaked details for Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh processors. As a refresh, these new chips don't seem to do much to differentiate themselves from the extant Core Ultra 200S family, but one small upgrade...
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One of the strangest parts of AMD's stagnation in the early 2010s was that it simply stopped releasing new desktop CPUs for a while. It's true that there wasn't much point in continuing the lineage of the inefficient (and unpopular)...
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There was a time when processor companies released new CPUs a full generation at a time. In the last several years though, AMD has thrown that practice out the window. New CPUs come from the company whenever they're good and ready, it...
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Strictly speaking, based on what we've been told, the answer to the question in the headline is "yes." While official information regarding AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 (or 'UDNA') graphics architecture is incredibly sparse on the ground...
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Today's news isn't strictly news, but a second source is reporting the same thing that was rumored before, so we're going to cover it now. The short version is that AMD's Zen 6 processors are said to be using TSMC's N2 fabrication process...
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Many leaks and rumors have pointed to the existence of a handheld version of the PlayStation 6. If that sounds insane, think about it this way: Nintendo proved that one machine can provide compelling experiences both in the hand and hooked...
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Here's the actual story for today: well-known leaksman Kepler_L2 posted up some diagrams of his own creation that purport to depict the configurations for AMD's next-generation discrete GPUs. There are four diagrams in total, depicting...
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Japanese serial leaksman 188号 just posted up two mobile CPU roadmaps: one for Intel CPUs, and one for AMD. Chalk this one up as half-leak, half-rumor, because these clearly aren't official slides from Intel or AMD, but rather seem to be...
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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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Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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Here's a super-fast recap on what has already been leaked about AMD's next-generation Ryzen processors, built using its Zen 6 processor core: the core is codenamed "Morpheus," client processors are codenamed "Medusa", and all of them are...
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