Intel Core Ultra 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X faceoff — battle for the best $200 CPU

With similar pricing and target audiences, these two processors offer contrasting strengths across gaming, productivity, and power consumption.
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AMD to resurrect Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 with 10th anniversary edition, leaker claims — return of legendary CPU a sign of bleak PC building landscape

AMD is rumored to launch the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition in the second quarter of this year.

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Amazon returns buyer gets scammed out of a Ryzen 9 9950X3D — ‘CPU’ came with just a 3D-printed base underneath a real heat spreader

Another victim of Amazon’s return policy shares their story on Reddit, how they bought a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for just €163 only to get a 3D-printed base and an IHS of a 9950X3D.
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears on Amazon with $1,000 pre-order price — AMD confirms recommended pricing is still set at $899 [Updated]

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has started appearing at retailers, with Amazon currently offering the CPU at $1,000 — $100 above the suggest retail pricing.
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AMD’s market cap hits all-time high, Intel hits 25-year high on Agentic AI’s insatiable demand for CPUs

Demand for CPUs by AI systems is creating positive sentiment and drives AMD and Intel stocks to their highs.

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US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Intel — VLSI case from 2017 returns after court sets aside 2024 decision

The U.S. Court of Appeals determines $3 billion VLSI lawsuit was not suitable for summary judgment and must instead be evaluated by a jury, so it must return to a district court for proceedings.
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Legendary Qualcomm, Apple, and Nuvia alumni form new CPU startup — Nuvacore promises to ‘rewrite the rules of silicon’

Ex-Apple, ex-Nuvia CPU designers Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan establish Nuvacore startup to develop clean-sheet CPUs for always-on compute-intensive AI workloads.
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Intel’s promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores — new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the works

A new leak claims Intel is prepping a 16-core CPU featuring 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, likely targeting the Ryzen G-series APUs. AMD’s latest desktop APUs top out at only 8 RDNA 3.5 CUs, while the Arc B390M in Panther Lake alread…

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New tech can see a CPU’s transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor’s individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation.
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Intel’s Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP

VideoCardz shares the alleged preliminary SKU list for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 400S (codenamed Nova Lake) processors.
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