The iPhone 16 launch is approaching fast, and some people will be excited at the prospect of buying cheaper iPhones come September. As always, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 14 models will each be $100 cheaper. But I think you’d be better served not getting either model, especially an iPhone 15 flavor, whether the base…
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Motherboard makers are seemingly upping the pace with the transition to new designs for PCIe graphics card slots, whereby the traditional latch is being phased out in favor of either a button, or an entirely seamless mechanism in the case of Asus.VideoCardz reports on the proliferation of new motherboards for both AMD’s and Intel’s new…
A new leak has seemingly outlined the entire first wave of Intel’s hotly-anticipated Core Ultra 200 CPUs, also known as Arrow Lake-S. The leaked information around the forthcoming line of CPUs comes complete with core counts and boost frequencies.The leak originates from Chinese tech website Benchlife, which also claimed that its sources have suggested an…
Asus has prematurely listed AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors on its microsite for incoming 800 series motherboards, in what’s another hint that next-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs might be here sooner than expected.As VideoCardz noticed, the site lists X870 (and X870E), B850 and B840 motherboards for Ryzen 9000 (second-gen AM5 boards still based on the same socket…
Amidst the backdrop of a weak quarterly earnings report that saw Intel lose money for the second quarter in a row, Intel today has announced that the company will be cutting costs by $10 billion in 2025 in an effort to bring Intel back to profitability. The cuts will touch almost every corner of the…
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Intel’s next-gen Arrow Lake desktop processors will go on sale come October 17, or that’s the latest word from the grapevine.VideoCardz got the scoop on this one, with the source being the Board Channels over in China (which we’d classify as a reasonable outlet for rumors, albeit one that has to be approached with a…
Update 08/02: Patrick Moorhead has published a further tweet, clarifying that “Pat [Gelsinger] didn’t tell me l that there were yield issues. This was *my* interpretation.” The text of the article has been updated accordingly to reflect this tweet, as well as Intel statements about accelerating their Ireland Fab 34 ramp-up. Alongside Intel’s weak Q2…
Intel’s much-awaited microcode update designed to fix instability issues with its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs – or at least act as a preventative measure – is on the cusp of arriving, and Team Blue has assured us that it doesn’t come with any nasty side-effects on the performance front.Indeed, the patch is now in beta…
The trend towards miniaturization of desktop systems was kickstarted by the Intel NUCs in the early 2010s. The increasing popularity of compact PCs also led to the introduction of a variety of slightly larger form-factors. Custom boards falling in size between the NUC’s 4″ x 4″ ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) and industrial-applications oriented 3.5″ SBC have…
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Update 08/06: Intel published an additional note on Monday, confirming which SKUs are covered by the program. The full list of SKUs has been added to the article below, but it’s essentially the 13600K/14600K and above – all of Intel’s high-TDP desktop parts using the Raptor Lake B0 die. Capping off an extensive (and expensive)…
