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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D spotted at Swiss and U.S. retailers

By Hassam Nasir published

Early price listings seem high

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

How to choose a CPU – A guide to picking the right processor for your PC

By Jake Roach published

Choosing the right CPU is one of the first decisions you need to make when building a PC. Here's how to make that tough choice.

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon unveils 192-core Graviton5 CPU with massive 180 MB L3 cache in tow

By Anton Shilov published

Premium AWS's new 192-core Graviton5 processor with a massive 180 MB L3 cache marks the company's most ambitious in-house CPU yet, which could enable it to replace more AMD and Intel servers in its cloud.

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Raptor Lake CPU

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 9 290K Plus spotted at Indian retailer

By Hassam Nasir published

First retail appearance of the Arrow Lake refresh.

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Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case

By Mark Tyson published

Intel lost its challenge to overturn an EU antitrust ruling on Wednesday, meaning it now faces a fine of $278 million.

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Intel

Intel's Panther Lake Core Ultra X9 388H beats out AMD Strix Halo in early Geekbench single-threaded results

By Hassam Nasir published

Class-leading single-core and multi-core numbers.

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Core ultra 200S CPU

Geekbench leak sees Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 7 270K comfortably ahead of Core Ultra 265K

By Hassam Nasir published

A decent improvement over the 265K

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Ryzen 9000

Ryzen 7 9850X3D edges past Ryzen 7 9800X3D in PassMark benchmark

By Luke James published

A new PassMark entry has surfaced for AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9850X3D, giving the first look at how the chip compares against the current 9800X3D.

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Ryzen 9000 CPU

AMD's unreleased Ryzen 7 9850X3D shows up on Geekbench, scores amicably against 9800X3D with 5.6 GHz boost clocks

By Hassam Nasir published

Tested on slow RAM.

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1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum

By Mark Tyson published

Divide by zero is one of computing’s most notorious error conditions - and an old mechanical calculator doesn't handle it gracefully.

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