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Intel reportedly demands all board partners implement Intel Default (Baseline) Profile by May 31 — company hopes to fix issues with some Core i9 chips
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel is putting an end to 13th and 14th-gen instability by demanding board partners implement an Intel default profile by May 31st for all LGA1700 boards.
Ryzen 9 7950X3D surfaces with 192MB L3 cache, 64MB more than retail CPU
By Jeff Butts published
A suspected engineering sample from the Ryzen 9 7950X3D development phase has made it out of the labs and into someone's PC, bringing more L3 cache than the final retail design offered.
Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China — product suffered from serious silicon deficiency
By Mark Tyson published
Delidding the stone-dead chip revealed the terrible truth.
Rising metal prices could mean more expensive laptops, PC parts, and other electronics in the near future
By Jowi Morales published
Copper and gold prices have reached an all-time high, forcing many Chinese semiconductor companies to increase prices across the board.
AMD's elusive Ryzen 7 8700F hits Amazon for $300
By Aaron Klotz published
AMD has listed the Ryzen 7 8700F for sale on Amazon. However, its $300 price tag makes it unattractive compared to AMD's cheaper-yet-better-performing Ryzen 7 7700 series alternatives.
Dev hopes to save legendary Z80 chip with open source clone
By Jeff Butts published
Zilog is discontinuing the CPU that helped spark home computing in the 80's, but this might not be the end of the chip's story.
Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes and instability
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel is still investigating 13th and 14th Gen instability issues.
Chinese vendor appears to be selling Arrow Lake-S engineering samples for $14
By Aaron Klotz published
Chinese vendor Xianyu appears to be flipping older Arrow Lake-S engineering samples for $14 each. You can buy one, but you won't have a motherboard to put it in.
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