Following Intel’s run of financial woes and Raptor Lake chip stability issues, the company could use some good news on a Friday. And this week they’re delivering just that, with the first version of the eagerly awaited microcode fix for desktop Raptor Lake processors – as well as the first detailed explanation of the underlying…
Intel has decided that the warranty extension the firm announced last week, for chips affected by instability issues, applies to all its 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors, and not just boxed CPUs.If you recall, when the move, which upped the warranty from three to five years, was made, Intel said it applied to boxed products, but…
Winning the AI race isn’t just about getting artificial intelligence features right. It’s also about winning the hearts and minds of people who will use these products. Google just gave us a good example of how not to win any hearts or minds. As impressive as Gemini AI innovations might be, Google’s “pizza glue” Search…
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AMD has revealed the official pricing for its first four Ryzen 9000 processors, due out later in August (after being slightly delayed), and it’s a case of good news and bad news – at least, sort of.The good news is that the quartet of next-gen CPUs will debut at cheaper MSRPs than their current Ryzen…
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Rumors and reports for Intel’s upcoming Battlemage graphics cards have been steady since at least 2023, which, if true, could be a boon for gamers looking for more budget-minded components.Now there’s a brand new leak, shared on the Weibo forums by Chinese tech blogger Little Pigeon (reported on by VideoCardz), which alleges the new cards…
Intel’s ‘Innovation’ event is one of the cornerstones of the tech industry calendar, as if often sees the launch of upcoming desktop and laptop processors like the upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips. Unfortunately, we’ve got bad news: computing enthusiasts will be disappointed to learn that the event has been postponed until September 2025. In…
Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su’s opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD’s latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In…
Listen to this podcast We speak to Google’s director of product management for confidential computing about ensuring the protection of data in use How do you offer a trusted environment for hosting applications and data in the public cloud? It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director…
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Intel has stepped up its pre-release schedule for Arrow Lake processors, and the most recent rumor of a December 2024 launch is no longer true, according to fresh info from the grapevine.This is the latest word from leaker Jaykihn, who claims on X that the Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200) desktop (ARL-S) flagship CPU has…
The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling. The stakeholders in the industry…
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