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Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake refresh is due in October, so we’ve officially entered the “pre-launch leaking” season now that it’s August. Today we have our first actual benchmarks of the top two SKUs, the Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K. Though the results are underwhelming, their poor performance is likely …

This week we learned that Intel planned to add a few more efficiency cores to the Core i7 variant of its upcoming Raptor Lake refresh. We pondered whether Intel would be juicing any other CPUs or if this was just a one-off deal. Now there’s a new report stating Intel …

The PC market has been experiencing an economic hangover after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales are down for all involved, and both Intel and AMD have been especially hard hit. Gamers and creators have held off on upgrading their PCs, and companies have had second thoughts on expanding due to various …

Intel recently announced its lineup of Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs for workstations. They’re still a month or two away, but in the lead-up to the on-sale date, Intel invited German overclocker de8auer to its labs for a quick overclocking test. That some Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs are overclockable is both …

Microsoft has unveiled the latest iteration of its Surface Pro tablet computer, and it has an unexpected surprise inside. While the Surface Pro 9 has the usual spec-bumped Intel processor, a sharp PixelSense display, and Thunderbolt 4 ports, there’s also an option to swap the Intel part for a new …

Intel has been trying to get its foundry services business off the ground since it launched in 2021, and today it’s reached a milestone in that effort. Intel Foundry Services has announced a new partnership with Mediatek to fab some of its future products. Mediatek has been known to previously …

In a move that can best be described as “a bold strategy, Cotton” Intel is rumored to be planning a future price hike. This adjustment is supposed to help it eliminate its partners’ excess inventory. That includes CPUs for consumers and enterprise, along with Wi-Fi chips. The plan is to …

  Kevin Glynn, aka Uncle Webb at TechSpot, has developed several useful freeware utilities like ThrottleStop and RealTemp over the years. In the course of developing those programs he discovered a curious behavior in Windows Defender with Intel CPUs. Windows Defender is the software included with Windows to protect your …

For the past five years, AMD’s workstation-class Threadripper family has held an edge over Intel’s Xeon processors, either in terms of price/performance, maximum performance, or both. While Ryzen has offered increasingly difficult competition for Intel over time, AMD’s workstation edge has been larger and more consistently sustained than its consumer …

In what can only be described as a significant loss for AMD, Intel has successfully poached one of the company’s top discrete GPU architects to help the company with its upcoming line of Arc graphics solutions. Rohit Verma, who was formerly Lead SoC Architect for Discrete GPUs at AMD, is …