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Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit
By Kunal Khullar published
The ruling builds on Qualcomm’s 2024 trial win, rejecting Arm’s attempt to force destruction of Oryon CPU designs.

How to Check Your PC's CPU Temperature
By Paul Alcorn last updated
How can you check your CPU's temperature and what's a good or normal range? We break it down for you.

Best Prime Day CPU deals 2025 — deals on AMD and Intel processors
By Stewart Bendle last updated
We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.

CPU Price Index 2025: The cheapest price on every PC processor today
By Stewart Bendle last updated
In our CPU price index, we find the lowest prices on the most popular CPUs so you don't have to.

China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon
By Zhiye Liu published
Zhaoxin announces the company's latest KH-50000 series of server processors, leveraging a chiplet design with up to 96 cores.

Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU
By Aaron Klotz published
A new Granite Rapids-WS CPU has appeared on openbenchmark.org, sporting a 4.8GHz boost clock and a hefty core count.

Apple's iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark, beating PC chips and Apple's own M3 Ultra
By Hassam Nasir published
A19 has everyone beat, including Apple itself.

Intel officially becomes a contract custom chip designer, Nvidia among lead customers
By Anton Shilov published
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