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Intel reportedly told Arm to jog on after an offer to buy its chip design business
By Jeremy Laird published
news Earlier this week it was Qualcomm, now its Arm's turn to sniff around Intel.
Zen 5 revisited: Testing what a new BIOS and Windows update does for AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips
By Nick Evanson published
Once again zen Ryzen 5 and 7 models get more power and all of them get better OS support. Good news, right?
AMD's 7800X3D successor is rumoured to launch in October, as leaker claims the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPU to market
By Jacob Fox published
News Even if it's not October, surely 9000-series X3D chips can't be too far off.
Intel CPU crashes: what you need to know—Intel explains the root cause and plans a final microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
By Jacob Fox last updated
Intel issues A fix is here, but only for fresh Intel CPUs that aren't already affected.
Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix
By Jacob Fox published
News Another microcode update to fix Intel stability issues and the wheel keeps on turning.
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel
By Nick Evanson published
news The real magic is that the chip has to emulate another old chip to manage the feat.
If Nvidia couldn't buy Arm, then Qualcomm's rumoured Intel buyout isn't going to happen either
By Nick Evanson published
news For the mobile chip firm, the only thing Intel has of worth right now are x86 licenses.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News Whether great for gaming or not, memory with speeds in the tens of thousands is exciting.
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