Apple shows off new A18 and A18 Pro chips with significant performance gains for iPhone 16
Apple claims the A18 Pro brings desktop-class GPU and 2x faster NPU
TechSpot PC Buying Guide: 2H 2024
The TechSpot PC Buying Guide helps you navigate the current state of the PC hardware market. With AMD's Ryzen 9000 series underperforming and Intel facing stability issues, we guide you to the best current options.
Qualcomm considering buying parts of Intel's chip-design business
Say it isn't so: It's no secret that Intel has been going through a rough patch lately. Sensing an opportunity, Qualcomm has been eyeing Intel's design units with great interest. It is reportedly exploring acquiring Team Blue's PC design division.
Intel Panther Lake CPU specs leak, could pack up to 18 cores and 12 Xe3 GPU cores
A peek at Panther Lake's rumored SKU stack
Intel is out of stock of replacement Raptor Lake CPUs
Replenishing stock could take three to five weeks
Light takes over: Researchers demonstrate logic gates without electricity
It's just a proof-of-concept for now, but the scientists are dreaming big
Intel's Lunar Lake reignites PC competition, Core Ultra Series 2 is now official
Intel's answer to Arm-based competition
What was the first consumer desktop CPU to achieve 4GHz out of the box?
Was it the Pentium 4, Core i7 Haswell, AMD FX Bulldozer or Ryzen?
Latest Steam survey shows Windows 11 finally overtaking Windows 10, gaming laptops on the rise
Almost three years after the broad release of Windows 11
Struggling Intel is considering selling divisions and slashing expenditures
The company's Altera programmable chips unit could be on the chopping block
In brief: Desperate times call for desperate measures at Intel. The once-dominant chipmaker is putting everything on the table as it scrambles to regain its footing in the AI era. According to sources familiar with the company's plans, CEO Pat Gelsinger and other top executives are preparing an ambitious proposal to streamline Intel's operations. This strategy, set to be presented to the board later this month, could see the company shedding entire business units and slashing capital expenditures.
Intel promises upcoming Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs are not affected by instability issues
Impacted processors are so widespread that it's apparently easier for Intel to list the CPUs that don't have issues
Intel mulls splitting divisions as financial woes continue
Pat Gelsinger's plans for a comeback aren't working out (yet?)
Startup taps GlobalFoundries to produce 166x more efficient embedded chips
Partnership combines Efficient's novel architecture with GloFo's manufacturing
Latest MSI BIOS adds "TDP to 105W" mode for AMD Ryzen 9700X and 9600X
A one-click solution to increase performance on AMD's newest CPUs
Intel working on "Arrow Lake Halo" with beefed-up iGPU to take on AMD Strix Halo
No leads on when Arrow Lake Halo would release
Cerebras challenges Nvidia with new AI inference approach, claims speed advantage
The company claims wafer-scale technology can set new standards in AI inference performance
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. Ryzen 7 7700X: 45 Game Benchmark
Today we'll show you how to boost the gaming performance of your Ryzen CPU by 10% with one simple trick. Sounds too good to be true, right? But somehow, this actually works.
Brand-new Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X CPUs are already discounted
Right now, you can grab the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for $623 (from $649 MSRP) or the Ryzen 9 9900X for $449 (down from $499).
AMD Zen 5 CPU boosting update backported to Windows 11 23H2, arriving sooner than expected
Now arriving on Windows 11 23H2 instead of waiting for 24H2
In brief: AMD's Zen 5 series chips arrived earlier this month to some salty reviews over the performance discrepancies that didn't reflect the promised uplifts. Not long after, the chipmaker announced that the problem would be addressed in Windows 11's 24H2 update. But now in an unexpected twist, the fix is landing sooner than expected.
Ryzen 9000 Threadripper leaked in shipping manifest with 96 cores and 192 threads
Flagship Zen 5 Threadripper might maintain the same core count as its predecessor
Intel accidentally leaks monstrous 9,324-pin socket for "Diamond Rapids" Xeon CPUs
Intel's next move in the server CPU wars
AMD is pushing Microsoft to release Ryzen 9000 performance-boosting update sooner
Reviewers weren't seeing the kind of performance uplifts AMD promised, but a fix is coming soon
In context: When AMD launched its new Ryzen 9000 CPUs earlier this month, there was a lot of hype around the promised performance gains across the board, including gaming. AMD's own pre-release benchmarks showed a tidy 9% generational uplift over Ryzen 7000 in 1080p gaming, and around 6% higher frame rates compared to Intel's best. But once the reviews started rolling in, not everyone was seeing those kinds of improvements.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" CPU surfaces with 5.7GHz clock speed
The Arrow Lake lineup is expected to be announced on October 10
AMD's Ryzen 9000 series are slightly faster on Windows admin accounts – and no one knows why
Is elevating system privileges for additional FPS worth the risk?