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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears on Amazon with $1,000 pre-order price
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has started appearing at retailers, with Amazon currently offering the CPU at $1,000 — $100 above the suggest retail pricing.
AMD's market cap hits all-time high, Intel hits 25-year high on Agentic AI's insatiable demand for CPUs
Demand for CPUs by AI systems is creating positive sentiment and drives AMD and Intel stocks to their highs.
US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Intel
The U.S. Court of Appeals determines $3 billion VLSI lawsuit was not suitable for summary judgment and must instead be evaluated by a jury, so it must return to a district court for proceedings.
Legendary Qualcomm, Apple, and Nuvia alumni form new CPU startup
Ex-Apple, ex-Nuvia CPU designers Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan establish Nuvacore startup to develop clean-sheet CPUs for always-on compute-intensive AI workloads.
Intel's Nova Lake lineup to feature a SKU with 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, compete with Ryzen G-series APUs
All other Nova Lake SKUs feature only 2 Xe3 cores.
New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running
Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation.
Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne in early leak
VideoCardz shares the alleged preliminary SKU list for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 400S (codenamed Nova Lake) processors.
Why we spent 50+ hours retesting Intel’s Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus
Premium Although we’ve known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period.
