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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.

The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jacob Ridley published
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
By Nick Evanson published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
News Arm's CPU market share reportedly increases from 10.8% to 13.6% in just one quarter.

Intel has announced a load of new bugs afflicting its chips and this time it's not just CPUs but also GPUs that are involved, hooray!
By Jeremy Laird published
News No need for Intel Arc graphics to feel left out...

The latest Nvidia driver lets you run ancient CPUs in Windows again without crashing
By Jacob Fox published
News Now you can get that cursed PC build up and running.
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