Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end
In the first sign of changes to come after the formation of a new industry group, Intel has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that it […]
Tag: CPUs
Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month
Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available. […]
Intel lists the Core 200H mobile CPU lineup based on an aging Raptor Lake design — Core 200H sports up to 14 cores and 5.8 GHz boost clocks
Intel has confirmed the existence of a Core 200H family through a new table published on its website (via momomo_x). The chip […]
Arm vs. Qualcomm trial begins — Arm demands that the patent-infringing Nuvia designs be destroyed
The litigation between Arm and Qualcomm began this week and the companies exchanged the first salvo of shots in the courtroom. As […]
China’s dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI
A rack comprised of two Hygon server-based processors was spotted on the Geekbench browser featuring a run of Geekbench’s new AI-based benchmark. […]
Linux 6.13-rc3 fixes expensive CPUID handling on Sapphire Rapids CPUs — an issue resulting in Skylake CPUs being 4X faster for CPUID-related updates
The Linux team has published an intermediate Linux 6.13-rc3 to fix a “hilarious” bug in the kernel-based Virtual Machine code — Phoronix […]
Fanless Ryzen 9 9950X seemingly outperforms the same liquid-cooled chip in Cinebench R23 — flagship Zen 5 CPU hit 95ºC at full load
Tony Yu (via HXL), Asus China’s general manager, created a “fanless” Ryzen 9 9950X PC featuring Asus components that seemingly performed better […]
Fujitsu flaunts massive 144-core Monaka Arm chip — 2nm and 5nm chiplets, 3D-stacked CPU cores over memory
Fujitsu has demonstrated a mechanical sample of its Armv9-based 144-core Monaka processor for data centers, revealing some details. Less than a week ago, it […]
30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel’s first-ever recall
Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors in the original Intel Pentium which caused the “FDIV bug”, […]
Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.2 claims to improve Arrow Lake performance by up to 33%, theoretically matching the Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Seemingly out of nowhere, the devs behind Cyberpunk 2077 have dropped a massive update to the game despite previous claims that support […]