Latest about CPU
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
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
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.
Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
News AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.
The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
News Oh well, looks like gaming GPUs are still going to be hard to come by.
AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips
Computex Coming June 2025.
Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
news Anybody want a bigger NPU? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn't need one
Computex Screens, screens and almost certainly more screens.
Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
News Arm's CPU market share reportedly increases from 10.8% to 13.6% in just one quarter.
