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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.

Nvidia will announce an x86 CPU in collaboration with Intel at its GTC event, according to one report, though Intel itself shoots down the whole idea
By Nick Evanson published
News It would be an extraordinarily quick turnaround, given that their joint venture only started last year.

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.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance
By Jeremy Laird published
News How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

AMD's CPU division is booming as CEO Dr. Lisa Su says sales 'far exceeded my expectations'
By Jeremy Laird published
News And yes, of course, it's down to AI.

The cores in Nvidia's upcoming PC processor achieve 'performance parity' with Intel and AMD's latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?
By Jeremy Laird published
News X86 emulation is the big unanswered question.

The massive difference between how well Resident Evil Requiem runs on the Steam Deck and an Asus ROG Ally just adds more fuel to the rumour that AMD has abandoned driver support for its Ryzen Z1 chips
By Nick Evanson last updated
News And if that really is the case, how long before it does the same with Z2 processors?

Intel Foundry exec leaves to head up Qualcomm's semiconductor biz as Intel shake-up continues
By Jacob Ridley published
News Intel has lost a few key execs over the past 18 months.

Rumours are swirling once again around Intel ditching its hybrid P-core and E-core chip architectures for a single, 'unified core' design, although it looks like we might have a long wait yet
By Andy Edser published
News Are my days of typing "XX Performance, XX Efficient" soon to be over? Probably not.
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