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Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
By Andy Edser published
News Poor phrasing, thread counts, or something else?

AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
By Jeremy Laird published
News Doesn't bode well if AMD manages to take the fight to Nvidia in the GPU market.

Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
By Jeremy Laird published
News Beating AMD will be a tall order, but maybe 52 cores will do it.

'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
By Andy Edser published
News Intel might be inside, but some wish it wasn't.

This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
By Nick Evanson published
News The shape for today is a square. Organically square.

Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
By James Bentley published
News Catching up to AMD will take a big effort.

Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
By Nick Evanson published
News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.

Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
By Nick Evanson published
News Pinky promise?
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