Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs reportedly coming in October
Published in PC Hardware


Computex 2024: Plenty of Intel Z890 motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor

While Intel did not confirm the official launch date of the upcoming Arrow Lake-S CPUs, it has now reported that these Core Ultra 200 desktop chips could launch in October. There were plenty of Intel next-gen chipset motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor and some motherboard makers have even revealed the Z890 name.

Intel brings 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh HX-series mobile CPUs
Published in Mobiles


Up to 24-cores, higher boost clock, and 192GB DDR5 support

In addition to plenty of 14th gen Raptor Lake Refresh desktop SKUs, Intel has unveiled its new 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh HX-series mobile processors at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. These will bring improved performance thanks to higher clocks and other improvements and even promise some decent gaming performance, especially thanks to Intel APO.

CPU cores suffer higher hardware errors
Published in PC Hardware


Cores don't count. Things are getting worse, not better

A  recent presentation by Google engineer Peter Hochschild has revealed that chip design is going downhill and there are higher-than-expected hardware errors that "showed themselves sporadically, long after installation, and on specific, individual CPU cores rather than entire chips or a family of parts".

AMD patent reveals cunning plan
Published in News
Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:45

AMD patent reveals cunning plan


Mixes high-feature" CPU cores with "low-feature" CPU 

An AMD patent application document could show the way the outfit is planning to have  CPUs that mix high-feature" CPU cores with "low-feature" CPUs.

Apple was hacked off with Intel
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 26 June 2020 10:37

Apple was hacked off with Intel


Skylake forced its hand

Fruity cargo cult Apple was so miffed at Intel that it was effectively forced to come up with another solution.

Retail Kaby Lake CPU boxes pictured
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 22 December 2016 11:13

Retail Kaby Lake CPU boxes pictured


Nearly identical to Skylake ones

Picture of retail boxes for Intel's upcoming 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs have found its way online showing that Intel won't change much, at least when it comes to packaging.

AMD bundles Deus Ex: Mankind Divided with some CPUs
Published in Gaming


Still no word on graphics cards

We already knew that AMD was one of the launch partners for the new Deus Ex: Mankind Divided game and it appears it will be bundled with some of AMD's hot FX-series CPUs.

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Four CPUs as expected

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:27

MediaTek expects smartphone chips to be hot

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Ignoring the slowing global economy

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