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New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking
By Jeremy Laird published
News Except, of course, it won't really be 0.2 nm or anything even close to that.

Just when you thought Intel's branding couldn't get any worse, a report says the company plans to outsource marketing to a consultancy using AI
By Jeremy Laird published
News Hard to see how you could better 'Intel Core Ultra 9 285K'...

AMD just mentioned an as yet unreleased Ryzen X3D chip that could become the budget gaming CPU of champions
By Jacob Ridley published
News Come on, AMD, let's see this chip on shelves around the world.

Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops
By Jeremy Laird published
News A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
By Jeremy Laird published
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
By Jeremy Laird published
news AM4 forever.

MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop
By Jacob Fox published
News Or Gorgonzola Poi- sorry, Gorgon Point.

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
By Jeremy Laird published
News AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.
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