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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.

Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it's the most comprehensive breakdown I've seen in a long time
By Nick Evanson published
News And the entry bar to the blocky sandbox world is very much a voxel-shaped potato.

The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Mobo, mo' problems.

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.

In a major plot twist, Intel could soon be making chips for Apple once again, only this time, it'll be the Arm-based M-series
By Monica J. White published
News This wasn't on my 2025 bingo card. But then neither was the Nvidia collab.
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.
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