The Hot Take: Interesting, given the warranty stances on OC's.
Following an early access period that included over 60,000 participants, auto-overclocking tool Hypertune has released its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, which is built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and developed in partnership with Intel. The company claims the utility can boost frame rates by up to 60%, though you shouldn't expect that as the norm. The tool includes automated CPU and GPU overclocking, as well as customizable Windows features, network optimization, and game-specific optimizations. Go deeper with…
The fates appear to have turned benevolent towards Intel, especially as its multi-year strategic pivots are now finally on the cusp of paying financial dividends, as evidenced by the chipmaker's rapidly expanding EMIB-T capacity as well as its hefty lead against Samsung and TSMC on high-NA EUV technology. UBS now believes Intel can easily meet MediaTek's growing TPU-related demand for EMIB-T advanced packaging, replete with the ability to package over 2 million substrates by 2028 According to UBS, the wider industry is becoming increasingly…
The Hot Take: Intel is making headway fast to get back to the top of the manufacturers for sure.
Intel announced on Monday that it had processed more than one million 300-mm wafers using its High-NA EUV scanners, less than two and a half years after its first tool was assembled. For now, the company intends to use industry-standard 6-inch photomasks, which can expose 26×16.5 mm half-fields and therefore require field stitching for larger chips. However, Intel is also working on larger 6×12-inch photomasks that would enable High-NA EUV scanners to expose full 26×33 mm fields without stitching.One million High-NA wafersIntel's one million…
The Hot Take: Will there be any DDR5 available at this speed? Because if you go to NewEgg you only see speeds up to 6400MT/s....
Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Nova Lake 12Xe mobile processor with integrated graphics supports DDR5 memory modules up to 8000MT/s CSO-DIMM speeds, according to a September 3 Weibo report from user @金猪升级包.
The Hot Take: Let's see if Intel comes back swinging.
The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound anyway—but it is true that for high-framerate eSports and poorly-optimized game engines, a big last-level cache
The Hot Take: Very good news, ratchet up that heat in competition for TSMC & Samsung.
Intel is a bundle of positive tailwinds these days, especially in relation to its next-gen 14A chip fabrication process, as evidenced by an increasing likelihood of a firming order book for the process, and a defect density curve that is running ahead of the comparable trajectory for the current-gen 18A node. If Intel's 14A process simply follows the defect density curve trajectory of the current-gen 18A process from here onward, the chipmaker's next-gen process will likely be ready for its commercial debut by Q2 2028 For the benefit of those…
Intel processors have returned to Amazon’s ten best-selling desktop CPU positions after months of AMD dominance. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus reportedly reached sixth place at around $290, while the Core i7-14700K occupied ninth.
The Hot Take: Good, needed more than just for their own products but defense too.
Intel's confidence in its 14A (1.4nm-class) fabrication process is rising as defect density drops. The company's own design teams are at work developing products that will use the technology, while external customers are now asking about 14A volumes Intel can get them, according to David Zinsner, chief financial officer of Intel, who spoke at Deustche Bank's 2026 Technology Conference. The CFO went as far as saying that 14A is Intel's best process since 22nm technology from the 2010's. But while the comment is optimistic, there is a…
The Hot Take: Lets hope Intel can fully recover and start chewing back that x86 market or I fear with get pushed into ARM SoC mediocrity.
Intel seems to have staged a decisive turnaround in the second quarter of the ongoing year, with its data center revenue up a very healthy 59 percent year-over-year. Yet, Intel's inertia is still working against it, as clearly demonstrated within a new report from Mercury Research, which has tallied that Intel's share of the CPU market has fallen to levels last seen in 1995 even as AMD remains perched on an ascendant trajectory. After accounting for the fact that AMD does not count embedded CPUs it ships for networking and storage applications…
The Hot Take: Long enough to finish OH I'm sure of. As long as it doesn't get in the way of defense manufacturing of course.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Intel’s next two CPU generations could make life nastier for AMD by hogging more of TSMC’s tight 2nm capacity.
According to Jukan, Chipzilla is reportedly planning to use TSMC for parts of its Nova Lake and Razor Lake processor families. That will not cheer AMD, which already has to fight for space inside TSMC’s increasingly rammed fabs.
Intel is expected to start mass production of Nova Lake around January 2027. The chips were once expected to rely on…