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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench
Medusa Point looks to be promising.
SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea CPU finally gets in the lab, opening the door for Europe's first sovereign HPC CPU
Premium How a limited run CPU could open the right doors for Europe's first HPC processors on markets its developers barely hoped to address any time soon.
Nvidia touts Vera CPU's single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage
Nvidia lifts the veil a little bit more on its Vera CPU and reveals a single-thread performance monster — company claims a 1.8x uplift versus x86 competition in agentic workloads and 1.5x in coding.
AVX-512 instruction support is reportedly returning to Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs
Solving a major hurdle for modern Intel CPUs.
Intel reportedly adding two new 22-core SKUs with game-boosting cache to Nova Lake-S lineup
Midrange offerings with a lot of cache.
Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand
Intel confirms price increases for Core Ultra 200S Plus, Xeon 6 processors, cites market dynamics, rising costs, soaring demand.
Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50
Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh processors remain among the company's strongest desktop offerings, but newly updated pricing makes both CPUs noticeably more expensive than when they debuted in March.
AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks
AMD confirms plans to incorporate low-power CPU cores into next-generation heterogeneous CPUs to lower power consumption and improve energy efficiency.
