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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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