Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $145
Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $145

Intel’s 18-core Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever on Amazon, selling for just $145 on sale.

It’s finally a good time to buy a Raptor Lake CPU during Prime Big Deals Day
It’s finally a good time to buy a Raptor Lake CPU during Prime Big Deals Day

Intel’s 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs are finally getting some good discounts after a year of inconsistent pricing, and some of these chips are even dropping to all-time lows.

AMD attempts to get ahead of expected RTX Spark launch with Gorgon Halo benchmarks
AMD attempts to get ahead of expected RTX Spark launch with Gorgon Halo benchmarks

AMD is getting ahead of an expected RTX Spark launch later this week with a few benchmarks for its flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.

AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day
AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day

A user from the Chinese Chiphell forums shows off AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D, the X3D variant of the Ryzen 9 5900X.

Leaked Intel Nova Lake product list has three ‘BFC’ chips with up to 144MB of game-boosting L3 cache
Leaked Intel Nova Lake product list has three ‘BFC’ chips with up to 144MB of game-boosting L3 cache

A table rumored to hold Intel’s upcoming models for Nova Lake processors as surfaced, now referring to the heavily-rumored bLLC as “BFC.”

OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia’s Vera
OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia’s Vera

OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.

Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game
Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game

Gears of War E-Day is a surprisingly heavy Unreal Engine 5 game on the CPU. We benchmarked the game with 25 processors, as well as investigated what the “low core mode” actually does.

Nuvacore reveals unconventional Core First CPU IP design strategy

NuvaCore says it is developing its new WarpCore CPU IP without first choosing the ISA it will implement. This unusual development strategy is meant to offer the company maximum technology and business flexibility.

Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake platforms pass compliance at USB and PCIe standards bodies as launch looms
Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake platforms pass compliance at USB and PCIe standards bodies as launch looms

Intel is prepping Core Ultra 400-series ‘Nova Lake’ platform launches as CPUs and chipsets pass interoperability and compliance tests with PCI-SIG and USB-IF.

AMD drops an EPYC $15,000, 256-core beast
AMD drops an EPYC $15,000, 256-core beast

AMD has shared the full SKU list for its 6th Generation EPYC 9006 (codenamed Venice) series, with 1Ku pricing.