Happy Birthday, Intel 8086: World's first x86 processor debuted exactly 48 years ago today
The humble chip went on to define five decades of personal computing
AMD CPUs hit another Steam survey record as Intel gap shrinks to all-time low
Team Red closes the Steam CPU gap again while Nvidia's RTX 3060 remains the most-used GPU
Intel's upcoming LGA 1954 socket reportedly supports Nova Lake, Razor Lake, and possibly beyond
Intel may finally stop forcing you to buy a new motherboard with every CPU upgrade
Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with 288 E-cores on 18A node, teases Diamond Rapids for 2027
Intel just shipped its most ambitious server chip yet, Diamond Rapids promises PCIe 6.0 and twice the memory bandwidth next year
Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops
Nvidia wants to make your Windows PC an agentic and creator powerhouse
Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.
Nvidia's first consumer CPU in over a decade is coming – and it has RTX cores built in
Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm tease "new era of PC" at Computex
Steam Deck sells out again despite $300 price hike, meanwhile Intel unveils new handheld chip to counter AMD's dominance
New handhelds with Intel Arc G3 are coming next month
Microsoft is rolling out its Windows 11 CPU-boosting update – here's how to enable it
The update can make Windows 11 feel more responsive by briefly pushing CPU clocks higher
Nvidia Vera CPU impresses in early Nvidia-sanctioned benchmarks
Controlled tests show strong results against Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc
Intel says 14A is on track for 2028 risk production, 10A and 7A now in development
Intel's latest products are manufactured on the 18A node
AMD may be preparing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, offering 7800X3D-like gaming for less
The rumored Zen 4 chip could bring 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB of L3 cache to a lower price point
Intel may be forcing PC makers to buy its newer 18A chips by cutting off the old ones
Much of the limited Intel 7 capacity is being allocated to higher-margin enterprise products
AMD keeps gaining on Intel in servers, but desktop PCs tell a different story
What just happened? AMD has hit another x86 CPU milestone, with Mercury Research figures showing the company now holds 38.1% of overall market revenue. That sounds like another win for Team Red, especially given its huge gains in servers, but there is a surprising caveat: AMD actually lost ground in desktop PCs during the first quarter.
Arm CEO predicts CPUs will scale to extreme core counts in AI-driven future
CPUs are going to have their computing revenge against GPUs, in a sense
Gamers Are Wrong About 1440p vs 1080p CPU Benchmarking
Here We Go Again, or: Why GPU Bottlenecks Hide True CPU Performance.
Gamers keep demanding 1440p CPU benchmarks, but higher resolutions often hide the very performance differences CPU testing is supposed to reveal. Here's why 1080p still matters most.
Intel roadmap leak reveals Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, and Moon Lake through 2028 with Nvidia RTX GPU tile integration
Nova Lake comes first with 52 cores on TSMC's N2 node
How often do you upgrade your PC?
Rising prices and slower performance gains are reshaping the enthusiast upgrade cycle
Microsoft is adding a feature that briefly maxes out your CPU to make Windows feel snappier
Low Latency Profile early numbers are promising: 40% faster app launches, 70% snappier menus
Cutting corners: Microsoft has a giant Windows problem, but developers are reportedly hard at work to significantly improve the operating system in critical areas, tackling things like overall responsiveness and CPU utilization. New details have emerged about one of those changes.
AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance
Zen 7 is already in the works
The Best CPUs: Gaming, Productivity, and the Best Bang for Your Buck
The CPU market looks very different from six months ago. Intel's back in the conversation, AMD's X3D chips still rule gaming, and there's genuine value at every price point.
A Decade of AMD Ryzen: 10 Years of CPUs Tested
From near collapse to CPU dominance, we revisit 10 years of AMD Ryzen, benchmarking every flagship generation to see how performance, value, and architecture evolved.
AMD's $900 Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is selling despite mixed value arguments
The flagship briefly cracked Amazon's top 10 before slipping, meanwhile Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus has climbed to #10
Intel's stock is back to near-record highs as AI boom moves beyond GPUs
The company says agentic AI is shifting more compute toward CPUs, packaging, and heterogeneous systems
An AI agent just designed a complete RISC-V CPU from scratch in 12 hours
More bad news for human engineers and white-collar workers
CPU prices jump 20% since March as Intel and AMD eye further increases
Blame AI demand and production bottleneck