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Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $154

By Jake Roach Published

Deals Intel's 18-core Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever on Amazon, selling for just $154 on sale.

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A representation of the RTX Spark platform
Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench with impressive multi-core scores

By Hassam Nasir Published

N1X is finally taking shape.

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs

By Kunal Khullar Published

AMD's 3D V-Cache takes on Intel's latest Core Ultra architecture as we compare the two across various metrics including gaming, productivity, power consumption, and value.

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Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer

By Mark Tyson Published

The owner of 'the original engineering copy of the Intel 8080 rubylith mask' is looking for a skilled restorer.

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Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler

By Zhiye Liu Published

Deals Newegg is offering a big discount on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle that includes an MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard and an MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240 AIO liquid cooler.

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame

By Jake Roach Published

Ironically, new advanced instruction sets could make for even slower commands.

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers to amid AI CPU crunch [Updated]

By Jake Roach last updated

Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.

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Zen 4 CPU
AMD's Zen 6 CPUs could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games via per-core optimizations

By Hassam Nasir Published

A new report suggests AMD is cooking up a range of per-core optimizations for Zen 6 that might not seem huge on their own, but they could add up to make a world of difference in gaming performance.

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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware
30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

By Jake Roach Published

We’ve been covering CPUs for a long time. It’s time to zoom out for some perspective.

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Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup

By Anton Shilov Published

Intel reportedly licenses Atom-class x86 cores to a startup led by Lip-Bu Tan's co-investor and incorporated in May.

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