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A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor held between a person's finger and thumb
AMD now owns 38.1% of the overall x86 CPU market according to new research but actually lost ground in desktop PCs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The CPU market giveth, and the CPU market taketh away...

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Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. data center, in Navi Mumbai, India
The US has approved the sale of Nvidia H200 chips to 10 Chinese firms, but sources say they're still waiting for the go-ahead from China itself

By James Bentley Published

News Nvidia said it had 0% market share in China mere months ago.

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A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor held between a person's finger and thumb
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 75% It's the most powerful gaming CPU money can buy, but you really shouldn't.

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Score: 75%
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Trump confirms he brought Jensen Huang on his expedition to convince China to 'open up'

By James Bentley Published

News Or as Trump calls him, 'Great Jensen Huang'.

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Intel Nvidia deal
Lip-Bu Tan says 'Intel and Nvidia are collaborating to develop exciting new products' and I'm wondering what they could possibly be

By James Bentley Published

News Presumably involves a lot of AI, but I hope not.

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A group photo of Intel's primary Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh desktop processors (Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K, Core Ultra 5 245K, Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, Core Ultra 5 250K Plus) resting on top of an Intel-branded box
'Hardcore PC enthusiasts are significantly underestimating the importance of software to the PC experience, like really, really seriously,' says Intel Enthusiast VP

By Jacob Fox Published

News Robert Hallock suggests up to 30% of gaming performance can be "hidden" behind CPU optimisations.

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'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Meanwhile, TSMC's A14 node is supposedly go for 2028.

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Windows 11 Task Manager showing an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D's CPU utilisation chart.
'A performance tool that requires a graduate seminar before breakfast has already lost the room': Why Windows Task Manager looks like it's getting CPU usage wrong

By Jacob Fox Published

News There's more to CPU utilisation calculations than at first meet the eye.

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Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box
Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap

By Andy Edser Published

News Yes, it's caused by AI demand. What else?

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