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The Hot Take: I'm really hoping the US domestic production kick starts here soon.
Intel may be preparing another processor price increase in May, according to fresh channel checks and market research claims circulating through Asian supply-chain sources.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: If this is true, I feel ARM may have serious competition on their hands.
Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's products are relatively strong because Apple's engineers do an excellent job at designing them for a
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm sorry optimization is optimization. Stop crying.
Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) has come under scrutiny following a technical analysis conducted by Geekbench, which examined how the software impacts benchmark performance.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I really hope that the rumors of Intel following AMD with keeping chipsets and sockets around longer. This new board and chip with these prices is crazy expensive these days.
With some leaks, a single screenshot is enough to keep the rumor mill churning for a few days. With Intel Nova Lake-S, things have gotten a bit more uncomfortable for anyone still hoping for a loose collection of speculations: Since early February, several separate clues have emerged that all point in the same direction. First, […] Source
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Reading through them using SIMD, just sounds like they're optimizing the thread pipeline. How can anyone think it's "Cheating"? It's just optimization all hardware vendors do with their silicon.
Geekbench has taken a closer look at Intel's Binary Optimization Tool and found that it can automatically vectorize a large number of instructions.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: ARM wants that data center pie that AMD & Intel has but it looks like it's targeting Intel directly. Culling the weakest I guess? I feel intel isn't weak, just getting re-engaged and back fully into the game.
Cores it's got what agents crave Interview In recent weeks, the likes of Nvidia and Arm have revealed CPUs designed expressly to run AI agents like OpenClaw.…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Wow, intel has to speed up catch up from the looks if it.
AMD's next-generation EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPU samples have leaked, giving us an early look at the SP7 platform & performance. AMD SP7 Platform Leak Reveals Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Test Boards, Featuring Up To 192 Core EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPUs Venice is the codename for AMD's 6th Gen EPYC family, which replaces the 5th Gen "Turin" lineup. The lineup will feature the brand new Zen 6 core architecture with up to 256 cores, and some big platform updates. Currently, AMD is shipping out its first Venice samples to customers, and some of these have now appeared within the openbenchmarking […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/amd-epyc-venice-zen-6-192-128-64-core-cpu-leak-sp7-congo-kenya-nigeria-platforms/
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: The Ai "Shortages" are impacting it all.
The new Core Ultra 200S Plus series has received widespread acclaim within the community, and we liked it as well for rejuvenating Intel's otherwise underwhelming CPU generation. Part of the reason they're getting good reviews is their excellent price-to-performance ratio, which seems to be slightly undone at the moment.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: AMD appears to have per-countered intel, sad this won't come out. Granted we can't get any of the other chips at this point.
Intel has officially confirmed that the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus will not be released, ending months of speculation around what many expected to be the flagship model in the company’s Arrow Lake Refresh desktop lineup.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting, suddenly intel is back in style again? Let's see where this goes.
Razer has taken the wraps off its Blade 16 for 2026, and it's a significant refresh that now builds on Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" chips. Here's what you need to know (and where you can buy it today).
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