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Reddit reports of 9800X3D CPUs dying in ASRock motherboards are racking up fast, but a new BIOS update seemingly only addresses boot problems
By Jeremy Laird published
News There's surely more to come from this story...

One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can't wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews
By Nick Evanson published
news And the results are entirely unsurprising.

Newsflash: Intel's all-important 18A node is officially 'ready' but what exactly happened to the 'five nodes in four years' thing?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ready for customers, but what about the PC?

Intel engineer begs management and Trump to not 'sell out' to TSMC just as the company is set to regain its 'technical lead' in chip manufacturing
By Jeremy Laird published
News An impassioned plea which was predictably deleted.

TSMC now said not to be eyeing up Intel's fabs while other rumours suggest Intel could be split between TSMC and Broadcom
By Jeremy Laird published
News Place your bets, basically, but something's probably afoot.

Arm reportedly plans to make its own CPUs from this summer with future chips said to be powering a revolutionary Jony Ive-designed AI device
By Jeremy Laird published
News Spare a thought for poor old x86.

Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything
By Jeremy Laird published
News Next week, cats and dogs living together.

New EU regulation finally cuts massive CPU boxes down to size
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Out of the box thinking.
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