AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK — New flagship dual-cache CPU might demand a hefty premium

Listings for the 9950X3D2 have started to pop up at many different vendors, with some even listing preliminary prices. We found the CPU going for roughly $1,000 at two Canadian retailers, and just a smidge below that at a …

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Intel’s upcoming Wildcat Lake low-budget CPUs leak out again — OEM confirms specs for Core 7 350, Core 5 320, & Core 3 305 in first retail product datasheet

Wildcat Lake is Intel’s upcoming family of low-budget and low-power CPUs intended for OEMs. We’ve already seen many leaks surrounding this family, but now a new product from Advantech has listed three SKUs in a datasheet f…

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Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250%

Computer scientist showcases their hardware multiplication ISA card accelerator for Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 PC systems.
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Intel’s upcoming 42-core Nova Lake SKU allegedly upgraded to 44 cores — New config frees up 6P+12E tiles that could trickle down as locked bLLC variants

A 42-core SKU from the upcoming Nova Lake-S CPU family has reportedly been upgraded to 44 cores by swapping the 6P+12E tile with an 8P+12E tile, allowing the chip to achieve symmetry across its dual-tile config. Those left…

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Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard

A modder has successfully booted a 12-core Bartlett Lake-S CPU into Windows using a modified BIOS on an Asus Z790 motherboard.
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Intel’s potent 18-core Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus CPU lands at retail for under $200

Intel’s chip matches similarly-priced AMD parts in gaming and mercilessly wallops them in multi-threaded work.

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Level up your gaming setup with this Core Ultra 5 250K Plus bundle for $299 — save $60 with ASRock’s rock-solid B860 motherboard

Newegg puts up a new Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and ASRock B860 Rock WiFi 7 bundle for grabs at $299.

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Report claims Arm chips will power 90% of AI servers based on custom processors in 2029 — x86 and RISC-V on the outside looking in

As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029.
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Arm to sell its new AGI CPU in China — ‘we would expect the demand for this product to be just as strong in China as it is in the rest of the world’

Arm appears to be eligible to sell its 136-core Neoverse V3-based AGI processor to customers in China.

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Geekbench investigates up to 30% jump with Intel’s iBOT — performance gain attributed to newly-vectorized instructions

Geekbench has taken a closer look at Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool and found that it can automatically vectorize a large number of instructions.
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