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Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 — Granite Rapids sets a new high pricing watermark
By Anton Shilov published
At nearly $18,000, Intel's Xeon 6980P 'Granite Rapids' could be the industry's most expensive CPU in modern history.
Intel's flagship Lunar Lake Ultra 9 is slower than an Ultra 7 in the only laptop where it's currently for sale
By Paul Alcorn published
We tested the new Asus Zenbook S14 with the Core Ultra 9 288V processor, and surprisingly found that the Core Ultra 9 is slower than the Ultra 7 model in threaded workloads.
Intel doesn't have a tool to detect if a chip is affected by crashing errors yet — Intel Default Settings still recommended after patch is applied, but power limits can be raised
By Jowi Morales published
Intel hasn't yet found a reliable way to detect if a chip is affected by the Vmin Shift Instability and needs replacement.
Arrow Lake hotspot purportedly moves up compared to LGA 1700 — Der8auer preparing water blocks for Core Ultra 200 series
By Aaron Klotz published
This should mostly affect enthusiast-grade cooler designs where every degree of cooling dissipation counts
Best CPU Deals 2024: Save on AMD and Intel
By Stewart Bendle last updated
We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.
AMD's dense Zen 4c cores go embedded
By Aaron Klotz published
AMD has introduced a new EPYC Embedded lineup, with the processors consisting entirely of Zen 4c cores. The chips are aimed at compact and power efficiency focused embedded solutions.
Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop
By Matthew Connatser published
Benchmarks performed on the Snapdragon X Elite dev kit show that having a lot more power doesn't always mean having a lot more speed.
Snapdragon X2 Elite processors spotted in testing
By Anton Shilov published
First details about Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite emerge as new CPU begins internal tests.
Non-K Core Ultra 9 285 spotted in Geekbench — Matches 14900K in single-core, underwhelms in multi-core
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel's Core Ultra 9 285 was spotted in the Geekbench browser with strong single-core performance, but weak multi-core results, unable to beat even the 13th Gen Core i7-13700.
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