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AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 to save budget PC building
AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 processors with six Zen 4 and Zen 3 cores, respectively.
Apple’s new A20 Pro smartphone SoC is around 25% faster than its predecessor in leaked benchmark scores
The first Apple A20 Geekbench 6 benchmark results are starting to pop up online and the single-core score is very impressive.
Apple A20 Pro powers iPhone Duo, 18 Pro
Apple's new A20 Pro SOC will power the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo as its first 2 nm smartphone chip.
Intel-backed auto-overclocking tool Hypertune optimizes individual systems, not test profiles
Hypertune is an automated overclocking tool built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and built in collaboration with engineers at Intel.
Intel reportedly set to hike CPU prices by 10% ahead of 'major annual product' launch in March 2027
Intel is reportedly set to raise CPU prices by 10%, following two other price increases, as it prepares for a major product launch in March 2027.
Arm debuts next-gen semi-custom Neoverse CSS N4 ‘Falcon' platform — compute subsystem packs up to 128 cores per die on TSMC N3P
Arm’s new Neoverse CSS N4 platform can pack up to 128 cores per die and 256 MB of L3 cache, representing a large increase in support over the previous Neoverse CSS N2 platform.
AMD reportedly prepping Ryzen 5 7500 CPU with identical specs to 7500F but at double the price
No release date tipped off.
AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores and dual liquid-cooled MI350P accelerators
AMD's Threadripper Halo Station packs a 96-core Zen 5 Threadripper, dual MI350P accelerators with support for four, and 2TB of DDR5.
