Latest about Intel
As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
Core concerns E-cores and the loss of hyperthreading aren't helping Intel win any future gaming crowns.
Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments
news The Silver Lake investment firm portfolio companies deliver $252 billion of revenue annually.
PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
News IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.
This estimate that iPhones would cost $3,500 if made in the US has me terrified of tariffs and the concept of a mid-range gaming laptop costing $5,000 and high-end models hitting nearly $15,000
News Analyst predicts it would take years to move even a small fraction of iPhone production to the USA.
So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
News That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin...
The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
News The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...
Semiconductors are exempt from Trump's massive 32% tariff on Taiwan though PC gamers will still feel the heat
News President Trump says TSMC is "one of the great companies of the world" as he praises the chipmaker for investing in the US. But other companies are not so lucky.
Intel promises its next-gen Pather Lake laptop CPU will have the 'efficiency of Lunar Lake and the performance of Arrow Lake' and is on track for 2026
News Production later this year and availability in 2026 makes Panther Lake about a year late.
