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Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake CPUs listed in first retail product, confirms specs for three SKUs
All SKUs featuring 15W TDPs with 2P+4LPE cores.
Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card
Computer scientist showcases their hardware multiplication ISA card accelerator for Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 PC systems.
Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake SKU allegedly upgraded to 44 cores
A non-K series Nova Lake chip with bLLC is looking possible now.
Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard
A modder has successfully booted a 12-core Bartlett Lake-S CPU into Windows using a modified BIOS on an Asus Z790 motherboard.
Intel's potent 18-core Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus CPU lands at retail for under $200
Intel's chip matches similarly-priced AMD parts in gaming and mercilessly wallops them in multi-threaded work.
Report claims Arm chips will power 90% of AI servers based on custom processors in 2029
As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029.
Arm to sell its new AGI CPU in China
Arm appears to be eligible to sell its 136-core Neoverse V3-based AGI processor to customers in China.
Geekbench investigates up to 30% jump with Intel's iBOT
Geekbench has taken a closer look at Intel's Binary Optimization Tool and found that it can automatically vectorize a large number of instructions.
