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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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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff

By Zhiye Liu published

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D faces off against the Core Ultra 9 285K to determine which chip reigns supreme in the consumer desktop processor market.

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Ampere

Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory

By Anton Shilov published

Ampere expands lineup of AmpereOne CPUs with AmpereOne M processors featuring a 12-channel DDR5 memory subsystem that can address 3TB of DRAM.

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AMD

AMD posts highest Q1 result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind

By Anton Shilov published

AMD warns that the U.S. export tariffs may hit its sales

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