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Apple's 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling [Updated]
What about real-world workloads?
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.
‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI
Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.
Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors
The man who tried to split Intel retires from the board of directors.
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU
Intel formally announces Xeon 6+ CPUs with up to 288 cores that are made on 18A process technology.
AMD details Ryzen AI 400 desktop with up to 8 cores, Radeon 860M graphics
Still holding out hope for Ryzen 9000G.
AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II
AMD launched its first processors with on-die L2 cache this week in 1999, heralding the beginning of the Super Socket 7 era.
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900K faceoff
Two flagship CPUs, two very different philosophies.
