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Intel warns it has 'a healthy dose of paranoia' over Nvidia entrance into PC market
Intel reacts to Nvidia’s RTX Spark announcement, and says that it’s treating the green giant’s entrance into consumer SoCs with “a healthy dose of skepticism."
Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026
Nvidia is fully committed to transforming Windows on Arm into an agentic AI platform
Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache
Intel is putting its 18A node into the data center with new Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, which pack up to 288 E-cores for dense compute.
Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P
(Un)officially delayed to 2027, Venice comes first.
AMD confirms AM5 support through 2029
AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.
AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D, launches Ryzen 7 7700X3D to combat rising component prices
AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers who’ve been under the thumb of rising component prices.
Nvidia's N1/N1X chips leak ahead of Computex launch, up to 20 Arm cores and RTX 5070-tier graphics
The top-end N1X SKU is essentially a rebranded GB10.
