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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.

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.

YouTuber sets out to cool a CPU with infinite ice loop machine and actually achieves it
By Jeremy Laird published
News Inefficient and impractical, but what the heck it actually works.

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.

This simulation of how an old 8-bit processor fetches data from ROM is a thing of beauty
By James Bentley published
News Look at the pretty colours.
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