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AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD's top laptop CPUs
By Dallin Grimm published
AMD has announced its Ryzen 8000HX line of processors, codenamed Dragon Range Refresh. The premium laptop processors will launch with products soon.

AMD Zen 5 CPUs also affected by microcode vulnerability
By Hassam Nasir published
A vulnerability targeting AMD CPUs that can execute unsigned microcode on your processor also affects AMD's Zen 5.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Review: 3D V-Cache's Middle Child Needs a Price Cut
By Paul Alcorn published
We put AMD's $600 Ryzen 9 9900X3D through our full gamut of benchmarks. It performs like fast 6-core CPU in a lot of games, which puts it behind both the 9800X3D and 9950X3D.

Intel enforces strict tariff compliance for steel and aluminum shipments amid new U.S. tariffs
By Anton Shilov published
Intel is tightening supplier compliance policies to account for the significant amount of these metals used across its products and infrastructure.

Intel's market cap plummets to 16-year low as stock rout continues
By Anton Shilov published
U.S. gov't's tariffs and market uncertainties plunge Intel stock to 16-year low.

Retail Asus listing confirms AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs
By Dallin Grimm published
AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had more details revealed thanks to a new Asus listing on a Chinese retailer.

AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' CPUs see 14% higher performance on average with Ubuntu 25.04 beta release
By Hassam Nasir published
Ubuntu 25.04 brings several performance enhancements for AMD's EPYC Turin processors, providing 14% higher average performance and reaching up to 75% in some workloads.

Chinese chipmaker Loongson's new laptop and industrial chips have higher core counts, better GPU
By Hassam Nasir published
Loongson has successfully taped out its eight-core 2K3000 and 3B6000M chips, designed for mobile/industrial devices, including an iGPU capable of lightweight AI acceleration.
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