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Intel's Arrow Lake-S won't be an AI powerhouse — 13 TOPS NPU is only slightly better than Meteor Lake, much less than Lunar Lake
By Aaron Klotz published
NPUs are slowly filtering into the desktop segment, but mobile still gets the best NPU hardware for now.
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AMD's Ryzen 9000 single-core performance again impresses in early Geekbench results — 9700X, 9600X dominate previous-gen AMD and Intel CPUs
By Jowi Morales published
The 9700X and 9600X chips beat the single-core performance of other comparable chips, but still lag behind in multi-core numbers when compared to Intel's 14700K and 14600K.
![On-launch AMD Barcelona architecture CPUs were struck with the TLB bug in 2007, and required either performance-cutting software patching or purchase of a revised CPU to fix.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nTm6p2XscgHou2W3qi2J9Z-320-80.jpg)
AMD engineer discusses AMD's 'Layoff Bug'
By Christopher Harper published
Phil Park, an AMD memory and Fabric performance engineer, discusses a critical Windows Vista-era AMD CPU bug that struck Barcelona CPUs.
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Alleged Ryzen 9 9900X result puts AMD on top as single-threaded CPU champ in Geekbench
By Mark Tyson published
Excitement builds for the arrival of Zen 5 CPUs later this month.
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New AMD firmware brings performance optimizations for Ryzen 9000 CPUs
By Aaron Klotz last updated
Gigabyte has released new BIOS updates that support AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series processors running AMD's latest AGESA 1.2.0.0a firmware.
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Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 exposed in new benchmark
By Aaron Klotz published
CrossMark benchmark results for a new Ryzen 7 variant, dubbed the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360, have emerged. However, its performance was underwhelming in this specific benchmark.
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Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it
By Jowi Morales published
The current prevailing thought is that TSMC's existence and the threat of its destruction are among the things holding back China from invading Taiwan. But what if we're wrong?
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Per-core thermal throttle reportedly coming to next-gen Intel CPUs
By Aaron Klotz published
Fast Throttle, a per-core thermal throttling mechanism, is reported to be coming to Arrow Lake processors in the future.
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