AMD teases Ryzen 9000 X3D chips for November 7, slashes CPU prices
It may not be Black Friday, or even some version of Amazon’s Prime Day, but AMD is having a sale anyway: the company is taking up to $50 off its top Ryzen processors, just because.…
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Intel’s Arrow Lake roadmap includes laptop gaming chips too
Intel’s “Arrow Lake” processor plans include both desktop and laptop chips, creating two new performance tiers atop its existing “Lunar Lake” laptop processors plus the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors it’s launching today. Intel disclosed…
Intel’s new PC chips strike another blow against hyperthreading
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been banned from Intel’s…
Hackers targeted Android users by exploiting zero-day bug in Qualcomm chips
On Monday, chipmaker Qualcomm confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day — meaning a security flaw that was unknown to the hardware maker when it was abused — in dozens of its chipsets found in popular…
Apple may soon make at least some chips in the United States
Independent tech journalist Tim Culpan reports that Apple is now in early production of A16 chips at TSMC’s new Arizona plant. The A16 is manufactured on an advanced 5nm process (some call it 4nm) that…
Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US
VGG | Getty Images The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese…
Asus microsite confirms Ryzen 9000 X3D chips are on the way
AMD’s X3D processors, outfitted with extra V-cache that can boost performance for 3D games, are all the rage with system builders. In fact, the existence of these souped-up chips might be part of the reason…
Intel says its desktop Core crashes don’t extend to mobile chips
Publicly, Intel is no closer to solving the mystery that surrounds crashes with its 13th- and 14th-gen Core desktop processors. However, company representatives denied Internet comments that say that its mobile processors are subject to…
Apple processor comparison: Apple iPhone chips to Apple silicon benchmarked
At the heart of every Apple device is an Apple processor. Apple has been using its own chips in its iPhones and iPads for some time, while the Mac lineup has completed its transition away…
Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease
Enlarge / Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keystone speech ahead of Computex 2024 in Taipei on June 2, 2024. On Sunday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reached beyond Blackwell and revealed the company’s next-generation AI-accelerating…