More upcoming Raptor Lake CPU details leak including core counts, release dates, and tentative pricing
Processors may release during CES 2023, core counts remain the same as K models
Explainer: What is Chip Binning?
#TBT You just bought a new CPU and it seems to run cool, so you try a bit of overclocking. The GHz climbs higher. Did you hit the silicon jackpot? You've got yourself a binned chip. But what's that exactly?
Intel Core i9-13900K overclocked to world record 9GHz, KS model's 150W base TDP revealed
Using LN2 and liquid helium
Intel Atom successor spotted, an entry-level chip featuring i9-12900K E-cores
An Atom-like CPU with desktop-class performance from several years ago
Intel B760 motherboard could receive price hike over B660
B760 said to be largely similar to B660
The Best CPU Coolers - Holidays 2022
How should you keep your CPU cool? The more powerful your CPU is, the bigger and better cooler you'll need, but rest assured our guide will cover many great options at every size and price point.
Intel teases Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs coming "pretty soon"
Sapphire Rapids is coming in 2023
New Intel Arc drivers bring some massive improvements to DirectX 9 performance
A great sign of things to come from Intel
Intel to launch several new CPUs at CES next month, workstation and data center lineups later
Team Blue will be very busy in Q1 2023
GPU Architecture Deep Dive: AMD RDNA 3, Intel Arc Alchemist and Nvidia Ada Lovelace
Three vendors. Three new architectures. Three approaches to GPU design. Join us as we dive right into their semiconductor hearts and see how Ada Lovelace, Alchemist, and RDNA 3 contrast and compare.
Woman tries to enter China with over 200 Intel CPUs hidden inside fake pregnant belly
Why bother with drugs when CPUs are so expensive?
New Intel research charts a course to trillion-transistor chip designs by 2030
The research describes Intel's plan to advance 2D transistor and 3D packaging technologies
A new graphics card tops the Steam survey for the first time since 2018
And it's not the RTX 2060
What just happened? The latest Steam survey has arrived with a big change: a graphics card has knocked the GTX 1060 off the top spot for the first time since January 2018. November was also an excellent period for AMD CPUs, which reversed a months-long trend of declines to grab an almost 4% user share back from Intel.
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs. Intel Core i5-13600K: 54 Game Benchmark
Time for a massive benchmark comparison between the Ryzen 5 7600X and Core i5-13600K, covering 54 games across three resolutions using the GeForce RTX 4090.
Home Depot for DIY Chips: What's the going trend?
The chip companies are never going to really love this business
The big picture: Earlier this year we were reviewing Analyst Day slides from leading semiconductor companies and a clear theme emerged. Large companies are all shifting in a similar direction, posing some potential challenges for their long-term positions. More and more customers are looking for special purpose chips, a coping mechanism for dealing with the slowdown in Moore's Law. And the big players are all looking to support those customers.
Intel boosts Arc performance with new drivers, unveils XeSS plugin for the Unreal Engine
Arc GPUs continue to improve thanks to the magic of software
The Best CPUs: Productivity and Gaming
With readers constantly inquiring about which CPU they should buy, and after all the extensive testing you're familiar with, the TechSpot CPU buying guide narrows things down to a handful of recommendations you can trust.
Apple silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension
Still supported nearly 50 years after release
Intel must pay $949 million to patent troll VLSI for an outdated chip patent
What just happened? In its ongoing battle against VLSI, a now-defunct manufacturer of custom integrated circuits (ICs), Intel must pay a hefty fine for infringing a patent granted almost two decades ago. A federal jury in Texas has once again ruled in favor of VLSI, a non-operating company belonging to private equity firm Fortress Investment Group, ordering Intel to pay $949 million. It's a sum the Santa Clara corporation doesn't want to spend for a technology that doesn't even work with their latest computer chips.
Intel detection tool uses blood flow to identify deepfakes with 96% accuracy
Your move, deepfakes
Zen 4 X3D processors may be limited to Ryzen 5 and 7, no Meteor Lake processors in 2023
2023 could be a very slow year for processors
The Best Value Gaming CPU: 13600K vs 12600K vs 7600X vs 5800X3D vs 5600X
The Core i5-13600K is possibly the best value CPU all-rounder right now, but when looking purely at gaming the Ryzen 5 7600X is a strong contender as is the 5800X3D, 5600X, and even the older 12600K.
Intel to launch Sapphire Rapids on January 10, more details on paid software-based Xeon upgrades emerge
Customers can monitor usage stats for unlocked CPU features
October Steam survey: more powerful cards popular again, AMD CPU share falls below 30%
And more people are using Windows 7