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AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
By Nick Evanson published
News If true, my money would be on low-end laptop APUs or Ryzen IO chiplets.

Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power
By Jacob Fox published
News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.

New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz
By Jeremy Laird published
Computex 2026 However fast it is, AMD says Zen 6 is coming later this year.

Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
By Nick Evanson published
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.

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Thermal Grizzly's experimental direct-die CPU block is '3-4 times better' than most—but it uses diamond sheets that cost €500 each
By Jacob Ridley published
News It's just a pet project, I'm told.

New report claims Intel is 'struggling' to supply laptop CPUs based on its latest 18A node after speaking to Computex sources
By Jeremy Laird published
Computex 2026 But it might not be because there's a problem with 18A itself.

Panther Lake has another powerful iGPU in its lineup but you'll probably never see it
By Dave James published
Computex 2026 I was frustrated at the lack of chips with the 10 Xe-core B370 iGPU in affordable laptops, and now I know why I'm even more frustrated.
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