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Noctua NM-IMB8 offset mounting bars for Arrow Lake

Noctua NH-D15 G2 gains offset mounting bars for Arrow Lake CPUs to optimize cooling performance

By Aaron Klotz published

Arrow Lake allegedly has a hotspot location north-east of the package, which Noctua's new mounting bars compensate for.

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Arm

Lenovo's in-house Arm chip could rival Qualcomm and MediaTek, spotted in Yoga Pad Pro 2-in-1 convertible

By Hassam Nasir published

Lenovo is reportedly working on a custom in-house SoC for its Yoga Pad Pro family, rumored to be built on TSMC's 5nm process.

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Huawei MateBook X Pro

Huawei's Kirin X90 may be the company's "Apple Silicon" moment

By Hassam Nasir published

Huawei's upcoming Matebook Pro not only uses the homegrown HarmonyOS operating system, but rumors say it might also include its in-house Kirin X90 SoC.

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Nvidia GB10

Nvidia's GB10 Superchip trails Apple's M3 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in latest benchmarks

By Anton Shilov published

A bug, or a feature?

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Best CPU deals

Best CPU deals 2025: Save on AMD and Intel

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We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.

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Hygon CPU

Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support

By Zhiye Liu published

Hygon shares processor roadmap, detailing the Chinese chipmaker's plans to launch the Hygon C86-5G, a 128-core, 512-thread processor soon.

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Tech Deals

Newegg's PC Gaming Week sale lists the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X for the all-time low price of $208 and chucks in a free 500GB Gen 4 SSD to sweeten the deal

By Stewart Bendle published

Deals AMD's Zen 5 Ryzen 5 9600X paired with a free 500GB Patriot P400 Lite M.2 SSD for just $208 - an absolute bargain.

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Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%

By Aaron Klotz, Anton Shilov published

Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.

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Geekerwan holding a Switch 2 engineering board

Nintendo Switch 2's SoC die shot reveals 8x A78C cores, 1,536 Ampere shaders, and Samsung's 8N process

By Hassam Nasir published

Geekerwan managed to procure a non-functional Nintendo Switch 2 board, and utilized a FIB-SEM to dissect and analyze its internal details.

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Intel Raptor Lake

Raptor Lake instability saga continues as Intel releases 0x12F update to fix Vmin instability

By Aaron Klotz published

Intel launches another microcode update addressing Raptor Lake instability. This time the update addresses rare cases where Vmin Shift can occur.

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