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'Hardcore PC enthusiasts are significantly underestimating the importance of software to the PC experience, like really, really seriously,' says Intel Enthusiast VP
By Jacob Fox published
News Robert Hallock suggests up to 30% of gaming performance can be "hidden" behind CPU optimisations.

'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
By Nick Evanson published
News Wildcat Lake has all of Panther Lake's goodies, except for its big iGPU.

AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket
By Nick Evanson published
News The only problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.

'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
By Nick Evanson published
News You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.

Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
By Nick Evanson published
News Just remember that 44 and 52-core monsters are unlikely to be marketed at PC gamers.

Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars
By Nick Evanson published
News Its market capitalization is higher than it's ever been for over 25 years, thanks to recent chips and deals with Google and the Terafab project.

It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
By Nick Evanson published
All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.

AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share
By Jacob Fox published
News Well, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan did say that ditching SMT was a bad idea.

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.
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