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Intel, Nvidia

Teams at Nvidia and Intel have been working in secret on jointly developed processors for a year

By Anton Shilov published

Intel and Nvidia have quietly spent the past year co-developing custom x86 processors and SoCs for data center and client PCs with deep architectural collaboration across three joint teams.

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An Intel Core i7-14700 CPU box, along with a cleaned-off version of the Core i5-13500 that was inside, next to a syringe of thermal paste

I managed to snag a Core i5 CPU for $10, because someone scammed Amazon out of an i7-14700

By Matt Safford published

Someone scammed Amazon out of a Core i7-14700, but I got a 13th Gen Core i5 for $10 as a result.

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 shows up in Geekbench with a score of 3,831

By Bruno Ferreira published

A Xiaomi device in Geekbench packing a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip posted a single-thread score of 3831 points.

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Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors

By Paul Alcorn published

Cats and Dogs, living together!

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AMD Ryzen AI Pro

AMD launches Ryzen 9000 PRO series, flagship model tops out at 12 cores

By Hassam Nasir published

Pricing and availability still up in the air.

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Ryzen 9000

AMD launches four new Ryzen CPUs, including cut-down Zen 4 and Zen 3 models

By Aaron Klotz published

AMD has quietly released four new CPUs on three different architectures featuring the Ryzen 7 9700F, Ryzen 5 9500F, Ryzen 5 7400, and Ryzen 5 5600F.

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Core ultra 200S CPU

Intel Core Ultra 3 205 delivers impressive results in early review

By Kunal Khullar published

Intel's Core Ultra 3 205 has impressed in early testing, with decent performance scores surpassing previous Intel budget picks.

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AMD 3D V-Cache

AMD claims three of its X3D CPUs can hit 1000 FPS in esports games

By Hassam Nasir published

Four digit FPS

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Intel

Intel Xeon chief architect leaves just 8 months after appointment

By Anton Shilov published

Ronak Singhal, Intel Xeon chief architect, departs from the company just eight months after his appointment and after 28 years at the company.

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Intel 10th Generation Core CPUs

Intel's 14nm+++ desktop CPUs are making a comeback

By Zhiye Liu published

Intel has launched the Core i5-110, a six-core, 12-thread Comet Lake processor with a $200 MSRP.

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