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Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops
By Jeremy Laird published
News A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
By Jeremy Laird published
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
By Jeremy Laird published
news AM4 forever.

MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop
By Jacob Fox published
News Or Gorgonzola Poi- sorry, Gorgon Point.

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
By Jeremy Laird published
News AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.

A fresh benchmark for Nvidia's unannounced consumer APU suggests it's coming for Intel and AMD's finest and is maybe close to production-ready
By Jacob Fox published
News The DGX Spark silicon could soon be brought to consumer laptops.

I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is 'largely a solved problem'
By Jacob Fox published
News But the future of Windows on Arm gaming will depend on developers.

Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports
By Jacob Fox published
News But is Nvidia really worried?
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