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Intel's gloomy outlook for its PC business wipes out $1 trillion of semiconductor market capitalization in a day, barely affects Apple.
An Intel leaker revealed Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs with four lower-power-efficiency cores, no performance cores, and a 6-watt TDP
Nvidia gave us access to its Vera data center CPU for testing against Intel's Granite Rapids-AP and AMD's EPYC Turin.
A two-week shutdown of Intel's Fab 28 in Israel will affect server CPU shipments for two consecutive quarters.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.
An internal driver and a shipping manifest reveal that Intel's desktop Raptor Lake Next parts may be on the way right now.
A benchmark leak and a direct clock-matched comparison from an enthusiast seed the idea that Zen 6 may come with a decent IPC bump as well as increased clocks.
