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Rumours suggest AMD might raise CPU prices but some industry sources disagree
By James Bentley last updated
News Prepare to pay more.

Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
By Jeremy Laird published
News Sounds good, but we haven't even seen any 18A Intel chips, yet.

AMD has just launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with zero fanfare, and I think I understand why
By Monica J. White published
News The real hype may still turn out to be a fever dream.
Gaming PC with bizarre Chinese-made but AMD-derived 16-core x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but only in China for now
By Jeremy Laird published
News AMD Zen-derived cores surely make for a licensing nightmare.

Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
By Jeremy Laird published
News A battle royale of stacked cache CPUs beckons in 2026.

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
By Jeremy Laird published
News These aren't final figures, but Panther Lake doesn't look like a huge advance.

'It's rumor and speculation. There's nothing to it': Intel's Lip-Bu Tan dismisses worries that the company's new hire gave it TSMC's 2 nm IP secrets
By James Bentley published
News No official charges have been filed.

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
By Nick Evanson published
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
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