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Analysts see 'increasing foundry success conviction' as Intel CEO puts $12 million more of his own money in company
By Anton Shilov Published
Intel's Lip-Bu Ran reportedly buys $12 million worth of Intel stock as analysts believe that the management is increasingly convinced about landing external customers.

Nova Lake CPUs with cut-down E-core clusters may still retain full cache pool, says new leak
By Hassam Nasir Published
A new leak from Jaykihn says some Nova Lake SKUs, including mobile counterparts, will retain the cache config of their fully-enabled variants despite having reduced E-cores.

AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D
By Jake Roach Published
AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.

Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
By Jake Roach Published
Premium The repurposed APU for mining has come back home again.

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench with impressive multi-core scores
By Hassam Nasir Published
N1X is finally taking shape.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs
By Kunal Khullar Published
AMD's 3D V-Cache takes on Intel's latest Core Ultra architecture as we compare the two across various metrics including gaming, productivity, power consumption, and value.

Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer
By Mark Tyson Published
The owner of 'the original engineering copy of the Intel 8080 rubylith mask' is looking for a skilled restorer.

Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame
By Jake Roach Published
Ironically, new advanced instruction sets could make for even slower commands.
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