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AMD wants to hire people with experience of Intel's new silicon tech, but would AMD ever actually make chips with its arch rival?
By Jeremy Laird published
News If nothing else, the positive noise around Intel's new nodes seems to be increasing.

Rumours suggest AMD might raise CPU prices but some industry sources disagree
By James Bentley last updated
News Prepare to pay more.

Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
By Jeremy Laird published
News Sounds good, but we haven't even seen any 18A Intel chips, yet.

AMD has just launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with zero fanfare, and I think I understand why
By Monica J. White published
News The real hype may still turn out to be a fever dream.
Gaming PC with bizarre Chinese-made but AMD-derived 16-core x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but only in China for now
By Jeremy Laird published
News AMD Zen-derived cores surely make for a licensing nightmare.

Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
By Jeremy Laird published
News A battle royale of stacked cache CPUs beckons in 2026.

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it's ever been
By Nick Evanson published
Black Friday The RAM crisis can't affect processors, at least.

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
By Jeremy Laird published
News These aren't final figures, but Panther Lake doesn't look like a huge advance.
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