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TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028 and even its next-gen Arizona fab is fully booked before it has even been built

By Jeremy Laird Published

News TSMC's new N2 node selling like hot, er, chips.

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 2750K Plus processor, resting against a colorful, Intel-branded box
CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' according to an unnamed gaming PC company

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus
Geekbench warns that Intel's BOT tool for the new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs generates results that 'aren't comparable with standard runs'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Why is Geekbench singling out Intel?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor, resting on an Intel-branded box with a colorful pattern
I've tested Intel's new Binary Optimization Tool to see what all the fuss is about and while it's almost everything the chip giant claims it to be, few PC gamers will ever see the benefits

By Nick Evanson Published

Benching BOT It really does work but with so few CPUs and games supporting it, BOT will mean nothing to most enthusiasts.

Benching BOT
Mock up of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor
Oops, ASRock says motherboards will support 'newly launched' AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU that has definitely not yet been launched

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I hope no one got yelled at for this.

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 2750K Plus processor, resting against a colorful, Intel-branded box
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 89% Arrow Lake's redemption is here at last.

Score: 89%
A photograph of Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus processor, placed on an Intel-branded display box
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 87% The dark horse of Arrow Lake: Ultra 7 class performance for an Ultra 3 class price tag.

Score: 87%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor
Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year

By James Bentley Published

News That's the memory crisis for you…

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus
Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Is it all about Intel's new performance BOT?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor surrounded by DDR5 memory sticks from Corsair, Kingston, and Lexar
New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?

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