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Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%
Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.
Nintendo Switch 2's SoC die shot reveals 8x A78C cores, 1,536 Ampere shaders, and Samsung's 8N process
Geekerwan managed to procure a non-functional Nintendo Switch 2 board, and utilized a FIB-SEM to dissect and analyze its internal details.
Raptor Lake instability saga continues as Intel releases 0x12F update to fix Vmin instability
Intel launches another microcode update addressing Raptor Lake instability. This time the update addresses rare cases where Vmin Shift can occur.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D faces off against the Core Ultra 9 285K to determine which chip reigns supreme in the consumer desktop processor market.
Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory
Ampere expands lineup of AmpereOne CPUs with AmpereOne M processors featuring a 12-channel DDR5 memory subsystem that can address 3TB of DRAM.
AMD posts highest Q1 result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
AMD warns that the U.S. export tariffs may hit its sales
Intel officially cuts Core Ultra 7 200-series desktop CPU prices by up to 25%
In an unusual move, Intel has officially cut the suggested retail prices of its Core Ultra 7 265K and 265KF desktop CPUs by $100 to boost Arrow Lake-S demand.
