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Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Computex 2026 Keeping your cool.

'Return of the king': AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for DDR4 platforms, launching it alongside the mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D
By James Bentley Published
Computex 2026 I suppose more options are always a good thing.

ByteDance has had enough of waiting months for processors, so it's going to make them itself
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'No AMD or Intel makes ByteDance go something, something.'

A rumoured Intel Nova Lake mobile chip that's 100% E-cores with a beefy iGPU would be great news for handhelds, if it wasn't destined for edge computing only
By Nick Evanson Published
News But that might not stop some companies from experimenting with it.

Nvidia's first in-house CPU benchmarked, beats x86 and ARM chips alike but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests
By Jeremy Laird Published
News But when might we see such CPU cores in a PC?

Nvidia's still-yet-to-be-announced N1X Arm chip is referenced on a Lenovo login page, so make of that what you will
By Andy Edser Published
News Sneaky little fella.

Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front
By Nick Evanson Published
News Unified cores, the return of HyperThreading, and one socket across three generations.

AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap
By Jeremy Laird Published
News Moore's Law alive and kinda kicking…
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