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AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year
By James Bentley Published
News Here's hoping the swap to 2 nm is huge.

Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
By Nick Evanson Published
News Fortunately, the Arrow Lake Refresh chips are still worth the extra money.

Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
By Nick Evanson Published
News There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.

Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power
By Jacob Fox Published
News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.

Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
By Nick Evanson Published
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.

AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition
By Jacob Fox Published
Computex 2026 It might struggle to differentiate itself from other AMD competition.

CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia is too busy with the 'gigantic project' of 'reinventing the PC after 40 years' to do a handheld gaming PC based on RTX Spark
By Jeremy Laird Published
Computex 2026 Emulating x86 apps, enabling anti-cheat is plenty of work, for now...

AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
By Nick Evanson Published
Computex 2026 The AM6 socket looks like it'll be an end-of-the-decade release.
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