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New Arrow Lake refresh rumours confirm addition of NPU to bring Microsoft's Copilot+ AI features to desktop machines
By Hope Corrigan published
news But with no other improvements, these still aren't looking like a gamer CPU of choice.

I've just noticed Zalman is spinning up a new line of circular tower coolers that look a lot like itty-bitty jet engines
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I reckon these will take off.

Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
By Jeremy Laird published
News 18A lives on for Intel's Panther Lake CPUs, but will that be enough?

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James last updated
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up
By Nick Evanson published
News And for gaming, it won't make a jot of difference. Low-latency cache is what we need.

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
By Nick Evanson last updated
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs rumoured to take on AMD's X3D CPUs at last thanks to gaming-friendly cache memory tile
By Jeremy Laird published
News The devil will be in the ring-bus details.

Former CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was 'not given the opportunity' to finish his job at Intel as he predicts the future of computing will be a 'trinity' of traditional, AI and quantum machines
By Jeremy Laird published
News 'The decision to step down from Intel was an extremely difficult one.'
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