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AMD Zen 5 CPU has dropped to a staggeringly low price — Ryzen 5 9600X now just $189, even includes a free 512GB SSD
By Stewart Bendle published
Deals AMD's Zen 5 Ryzen 5 9600X paired with a free 512GB Patriot P300 M.2 SSD for just $189.

Best CPU deals 2025: Save on AMD and Intel
By Stewart Bendle last updated
We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.

Nvidia's 20-core N1X leaks with 3000+ single-core Geekbench score
By Hassam Nasir published
A preliminary Geekbench listing for Nvidia's future N1X SoCs for mobile devices suggests performance near Intel's Arrow Lake-HX and AMD's Strix Halo chips.

AMD unveils Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme with AI processing NPU, expands family with two new chips for handheld gaming consoles
By Kunal Khullar published
New chips signal AMD’s push into a broader handheld market giving more options to OEMs

Tesla details how it finds punishing defective cores on its million-core Dojo supercomputers
By Anton Shilov published
Tesla's Stress tool detects and disables faulty cores in Dojo wafer-scale processors, which power Dojo clusters with millions of cores, without interrupting AI training.

ASE adopts AMD CPUs, begins evaluating Instinct MI300-series GPUs for AI
By Anton Shilov published
Sounds like ASE liked the CPUs.

Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly get a GPU overhaul
By Hassam Nasir published
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs for desktops are expected to use Xe3 (Celestial) for the integrated graphics, while media and display move to Xe4 (Druid).

Zen 6 Ryzen spotted in AIDA64
By Mark Tyson published
On Monday, Finalwire added 'preliminary support for next-generation AMD desktop, server and mobile processors' to AIDA64 Extreme, indicating readiness for Ryzen 10000 series chips.
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