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New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now
By Jeremy Laird Published
News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?

Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now
By Jeremy Laird Published
News Dare we hope that those Olympus cores turn up in a future PC chip?

Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Racing ahead.

Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool
By Jeremy Laird Published
News As refreshes go, this isn't actually half bad.

Crimson Desert's updated system requirements look very promising for any PC gamer, and for what must be a first-ever move, the devs have namechecked the ROG Xbox Ally handheld
By Nick Evanson Published
News You're looking at 60 fps at 4K, maxed out, on hardware that isn't unobtanium level for once.

As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%
By Nick Evanson Published
News And it's because CPUs are getting more expensive, too.

How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda
By Jeremy Laird Published
News Knocking up a cleanroom isn't as hard as you might think, the rest of the job, however...

Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now
By Jeremy Laird Published
News Intel CPUs living with Nvidia GPUs.
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