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Intel's elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They're cheap
By Jeremy Laird published
News Good enough performance at the right price, for laptops at least...

New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Lip-Bu Tan also says he hooked up with TSMC to talk about a possible collab'.

This water block has teeny tiny fins to better cool your CPU and is meant to be slapped right on top of your silicon
By Jacob Fox published
News I don't know about you, but I'm keeping my CPU firmly lidded.

MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible
By Jeremy Laird published
News Strong but stretchy, apparently.

Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point
By Jeremy Laird published
News New CEO, same old staff cuts?

Intel has released a free 'performance boost for low-latency workloads like gaming' for Core Ultra 200S processors
By Jacob Fox published
News Could *this* be the BIOS update to make Arrow Lake worth it for gaming?

As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
By Nick Evanson published
Core concerns E-cores and the loss of hyperthreading aren't helping Intel win any future gaming crowns.

Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they're not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff 'bucket' of their own
By Jeremy Laird published
News This really isn't my kind of bucket list...
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