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Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 — Granite Rapids sets a new high pricing watermark
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
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
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
This should mostly affect enthusiast-grade cooler designs where every degree of cooling dissipation counts
AMD's dense Zen 4c cores go embedded
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
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
First details about Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite emerge as new CPU begins internal tests.
