Intel, AMD, and other PC titans join forces to fortify x86 CPUs
For years, both AMD and Intel have energetically competed against one another in the PC processor market. But there’s a new force to be reckoned with — Arm — and both AMD and Intel are…
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AMD pushes the power of Ryzen AI 300 CPUs to business laptops
AMD announced its third-generation Ryzen Pro processors for business laptops on Thursday, taking the AI power of its Ryzen AI 300 consumer processors and applying them to the business world. AMD launched three very similar…
Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs offer ‘parity’ performance at half the power
Intel’s latest “Arrow Lake” desktop processor, otherwise known as the Core Ultra 200S, delivers a shocking one-two punch: significantly lower power consumption and package temperatures compared to its predecessor, while delivering comparable performance. Well, that’s…
Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs keep AI simple to make gamers happy
Intel’s new Arrow Lake architecture, aka the Core Ultra 200S series, brings AI capabilities onto Intel desktops. But the chip doesn’t use the Copilot+ capabilities of Intel’s mobile Lunar Lake chip — its designers used…
Intel finds cause of overheating CPUs, provides another BIOS update
Intel has been struggling with a major issue in its 13th- and 14th-generation Core CPUs for most of this year. Due to a production error, high voltages and temperatures led to crashes for users and…
Acer launches the first Swift laptops with Lunar Lake CPUs
Today at IFA in Berlin, Acer unveiled the first Swift and TravelMate laptops with the latest Lunar Lake CPUs from Intel. Not only are these laptops equipped with the latest processing capabilities, but they’re also…
Lunar Lake unveiled: Intel strikes back with new laptop CPUs
If you’re wondering why you need Intel’s latest Core Ultra laptop processors, code-named Lunar Lake, the answer isn’t a simple one. But if you want to buy a Lunar Lake laptop, however, you’ll probably understand…
Beware of counterfeit AMD Ryzen CPUs! Here’s what to look for
Tech YouTuber Roman Hartung (aka “der8auer”) just pointed out in one of his recent videos that elaborate CPU fakes are currently in circulation, and he personally came across a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D that…
Whoa! Ryzen 9000 CPUs get a huge gaming bump with Windows 24H2
The launch of the Ryzen 9000 series was highly anticipated but arrived with a bit of a thud, at least amongst PC gamers. Initial reviews weren’t seeing much of an improvement over the previous-gen CPUs,…
Windows bug? AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs perform better on admin accounts
After AMD’s recent unveiling of its Zen 5-based desktop processors from the Ryzen 9000 series, Steve Walton of Hardware Unboxed noticed that the gaming performance of these CPUs is curiously better if you use a…