It’s a bad time to build a PC right now, given all the component shortages and political tensions that seemingly never leave sight of uncertainty. Bad times call for desperate measures, and that’s precisely the window of opportunity that scammers are waiting to bank on.

Just several months after leaving Qualcomm, distinguished CPU and system architects Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan, who are celebrated for their high-performance processors developed at Apple, Nuvia, and, more recently, Qualcomm, established a new CPU startup — Nuvacore — that promises no less than to ‘rewrite the rules of silicon.

Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup of desktop CPUs has a lot to live up to, given the rumor mill surrounding the next-gen family. The latest leak in the cycle comes from Videocardz, which is claiming that some high-end motherboards for Nova Lake will feature a two-lever retention mechanism in the LGA 1954 socket. The mechanism will be aptly named “2L-ILM” and live alongside a more conventional single-lever design on cheaper boards.

AMD, which is locked in constant competition with Intel to release the best CPUs, appears to be in retaliation mode. According to chi11eddog, a well-known hardware leaker, the chipmaker is refreshing at least two Zen 5 chips—the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X

SK Hynix has announced the successful development of its first LPDDR6 DRAM, touting 33% greater speed and 20% better power efficiency compared to previous generation LPDDR5X memory.

The state of the PC, nay, the tech industry at large, is one of confusion right now, characterized by the somewhat still ongoing AI boom despite little real-world benefits. RAM is already three times as expensive, while SSD and GPU prices are also rising.

It’s rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer’s 12-core chips for testing. Phoronix reviewed Loongson’s 12-core 3B6000 processor in a plethora of Linux-based benchmarks.

Intel is finally ready to let go of its 12th Generation Alder Lake and 4th Generation Xeon Sapphire Rapids Scalable processors, two product lines that have given us some of the best CPUs. Both processor families have now officially reached end-of-life status.

For the first time since announcing its seismic decision to kill its consumer SSD and memory brand Crucial, Micron has addressed the notion that it is leaving consumers behind in a new interview. The company also warned that despite breaking ground on new memory fabs, we shouldn’t expect to see meaningful output impacting memory supply until at least 2028.

AMD this week released a document titled “Performance Monitor Counters for AMD Family 1Ah Model 50h-57h Processors” (discovered by InstLatX64) that reveals numerous architectural details of AMD’s Zen 6-based CPUs, including the EPYC ‘Venice’ processor for data centers, through performance monitoring interfaces.

AMD isn’t increasing prices on CPUs, at least for now — Ryzen appears to be safe from the AI hysteria. Two industry sources that wish to remain anonymous, one from one of the largest U.S. distributors

Intel is currently preparing a serious rival to AMD’s Threadripper 9000WX series: Granite Rapids-WS. The company has been mainly out of competition with AMD in the server market, with Granite Rapids restoring core parity between the two only last year. Granite Rapids-WS now looks to gain even more ground with potentially class-leading specs in the workstation space.

SK hynix has published its DRAM roadmap at its SK AI Summit 2025. While the plans are displayed in a very general way and do not reveal important specifics, they still show the direction of DRAM technology evolution and approximate timelines of the emergence of new technologies.

It appears that the period has once again arrived when chipmakers are rebadging some of their processors. Keen hardware enthusiast Gray has observed that AMD has rebranded certain Ryzen processors from its product stack; fortunately, these are not among the best CPUs, but rather some mobile chips from around 2023.

A CPU collector has shared some fantastically detailed new images of the landmark Intel 8008 processor. CPU Duke seriously indulged their CPU microscopy hobby over recent days, creating a detailed die-shot of an i8008 by carefully aligning and stitching 216 individual micrographs.

According to the company, Intel is set to share details of its Panther Lake lineup of mobile processors next week. Now, leaks are starting to seep out ahead of the reportedly imminent announcements. A few weeks ago, the name “Core Ultra X” started popping up in the rumor mill with reliable tipsters reporting on a potential new branding that Intel would adopt for Panther Lake.

A recent AMD patent, US19/201,497 titled “High-bandwidth memory module architecture,” is making the rounds again, with posts like this one on Reddit prompting all kinds of speculation about the “new” HB-DIMM memory technology that AMD is preparing.

When we first encountered AMD SP7 rumors a couple of years ago, we imagined that this platform would increase the power consumption of AMD’s future CPUs to levels beyond 1,000W (1 kW), so when we learnt that Auras was developing cold plates for SP7 processors at Computex this year, we were not surprised.

Spotted by @x86isdeadandback, the Core Ultra 7 254V is purportedly the lowest-end SKU in its category. The Core Ultra 7 254V, which Intel has yet to announce, made an appearance on the PassMark benchmark.

DDR4 production expected to continue until 2026 — Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron will continue serving industry clients for longer Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have decided to extend DDR4 production until next year as the price of DDR4, an old memory semiconductor, continues to remain higher than DDR5, a new model. According to the […]

AMD on Wednesday added the sixth processor to its Ryzen AI 300-series lineup. The CPU in question is the quad-core Ryzen AI 5 330 product that will be the entry-level product in the family, thus priced below others and making Ryzen AI more accessible to customers on a budget.

Codenames of two upcoming CPU architectures have been implemented into AIDA64’s latest version. Version 7.70.7500 implements preliminary support for AMD’s Zen 6 and Intel’s Wildcat Lake architectures.

Intel’s codenamed Nova Lake-HX processors for high-performance notebooks will use the same packaging as the upcoming codenamed Panther Lake HX CPUs for high-end laptops, according to info surfaced by X86 dead&back.

China’s leading scientific institution has taken the wraps off QiMeng, an AI-powered system designed to accelerate chip design. The new open-source project from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) uses LLMs for “fully automated hardware and software design,” and can be used to design “entire CPUs.” But sample chips, so far, seem rather puny.

AMD announced its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series and non-Pro processors here at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, touting up to 96 cores and 192 threads in the flagship 9995WX. AMD’s newest ‘Shamida Peak’ Threadrippers bring the benefits of the Zen 5 architecture to AMD’s premier WX-Series workstation and non-Pro processors, saying they deliver up to 2.2X the performance in rendering than Intel’s fastest competing Xeon-W chips.

Reports of Raptor Lake instability issues have been at an all-time low since Intel released firmware updates several months ago — but they’re not completely gone. Intel released microcode update 0x12F last week to fix Vmin Shift instability, an issue that was thought to have been fixed with previous microcode updates.

Samsung, the second-largest memory chip maker after SK Hynix, is set to end production of its DDR4 chips to focus on newer technologies. DigiTimes Asia reports that orders for DDR4 memory chips will end in early June, with delivery for 8GB and 16GB laptop and desktop modules expected by December 2025.

AMD has officially announced its Ryzen 8000HX Series of mobile CPUs today, intended for gaming and other high-end applications. Codenamed Dragon Range Refresh, the chips serve as a refresh of AMD’s Ryzen 7000HX family, AMD’s highest-performance laptop CPU line that has been in production since mid-2023.

Chinese chipmakers have been gradually shifting some of their production to tools made in China in a bid to support the local wafer fab equipment ecosystem and reduce reliance on tools produced abroad.

New listings at AMD’s official JD.com store suggest the retail embargo for its Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D processors will lift on March 12 (via ITHome). JD.com, alternatively known as Jingdong, is an online e-commerce company that is ranked as China’s largest B2C retailer by revenue.

Samsung has introduced yet another extension to the LPDDR5 specification at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), increasing data transfer rates to 12,700 MT/s (12.7 GT/s).

TechInsights and SemiWiki have published key details that Intel and TSMC disclosed about their upcoming 18A (1.8nm-class) and N2 (2nm-class) process technologies at the International Electronic Devices Meeting (IEDM).

Several months have passed since a Ryzen Threadripper 9000 (codenamed Shimada Peak) tip hit the rumor mill. However, a new one has emerged, featuring key specs on upcoming variants. Everest on X discovered a shipping manifest featuring 64-core and 32-core SKUs with a 350W TDP.

Intel’s CES 2025 exhibition features a stack of computers from the near future; six Panther Lake and Xe3-based systems. The next-generation CPU architecture and next-next-gen Xe3 GPU cores based on the Celestial architecture arrived at the show with little fanfare, receiving little mention in Intel’s CES press release or keynote address.

Recently, it turned out that China-based memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began to ship DDR5 memory chips. However, according to the findings of a Chinese semiconductor researcher, the die size of CXMT’s 16 Gb DDR5 memory IC is 40% larger than that of a competing Samsung chip, which means that it is significantly more expensive to build due to the use of less advanced chipmaking technology.

The 0x114 microcode for Intel’s Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) processor lineup has surfaced online at Overclock.net. This patch is believed to address the significant performance gaps.

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GIGABYTE R183-Z93 server has achieved many top spots in performance in the latest SPEC CPU® 2017 benchmark results.

AMD today introduced its new Ryzen AI Pro 300-series processors designed for business and enterprise PCs

Memory and storage specialist Asgard has announced new CUDIMMs that are rated at a blistering DDR5-9600

IBM has announced its next-generation Telum II processor

New pinout details and I/O information regarding Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 200 series CPUs

Less than a month after AMD’s Ryzen 9000 announcement at Computex, the CPU manufacturer..

TeamGroup has introduced its T-Create Expert AI series LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory modules ahead of Computex 2024

AMD plans to introduce upgraded versions of its Instinct MI300-series processors for AI and HPC in the second half of the year

AMD has updated its Ryzen Master overclocking and CPU monitoring tool to support its latest Ryzen 8000 series APUs

Arrow Lake desktop CPUs will apparently come with support for Thunderbolt 5