CPUs

Intel says that retailers complain about high return rate of Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite-based Windows PCs, but expects more competition from the Arm camp next year.

Quad-core CPUs are still not dead. Not yet, anyway.

Tony Yu, Asus China's general manager, created a "fanless" Ryzen 9 9950X  PC featuring Asus components.

An eight-core Krackan Point APU has been found at Geekbench - neck and neck against Intel's Lunar Lake offerings.

A new 16-core processor "Hygon C86-4G" has been tested in Geekbench but likely still uses AMD's aging Zen 1 architecture.

Fujitsu's Monaka is a monstrous processor with four 2nm compute chiplets, 5nm SRAM, and a massive 5nm IO die. This time, without HBM memory.

The 0x114 microcode for Arrow Lake has leaked online but initial performance numbers suggest minimal gains in performance.

Ken Shirriff, noted reverse engineer and processor historian, has identified the specific transistors, incorrectly laid, which caused the original Pentium to be recalled at a cost of $475 million.

Cyberpunk 2077 has received a surprise update that includes Arrow Lake optimizations that improve performance by up to 33%.