Tough love? Newly appointed Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that the company is not among the top 10 leading chipmakers, according to a report. Tan reportedly made his…
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Intel teases huge leaps for 18A, the tech behind its next-gen ‘Panther Lake’ CPUs
Intel is almost literally betting its future on its upcoming “Panther Lake” CPU architecture, as well as the 18A manufacturing process it will be built upon. While we don’t have any concrete…
AMD plugs serious Ryzen vulnerability with new firmware update
A new attack on the TPM security module inside many popular Ryzen processors has prompted AMD to send out a new firmware update to its customers, along with a recommendation that you…
AMD has a new AM4 Ryzen X3D processor, but you can’t have it
AM4 is the CPU socket that just refuses to die. Nearly a decade after first making its way into motherboards, AMD is still releasing new processors for the long-lived setup, still delivering…
Air vs. liquid cooling for CPUs: We debated it with Gear Seekers
You need to cool your PC’s processor no matter what, but you can do so in different ways—with a heatsink and one or more fans for old-school air cooling, or with an…
PCIe 6.0 devices poised for 2025 launch, ushering in next-gen connectivity
Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special…
PCI Express readies for a jump to lightspeed (literally)
Are you ready for your PC to communicate by light? Don’t hold your breath, unfortunately. But the possibility became more real as the PCI Express Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) said today that…
Intel leak confirms new CPUs: Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake
Intel documentation has revealed additional code names in the context of the company’s future roadmap: Wildcat Lake, Bartlett Lake, and a 12-core variant of the Bartlett Lake chip made up entirely of…
SSD cooling market heats up as xMEMS enters the fray
SSDs behave like any other silicon component in your PC: The faster they run, the more heat they typically generate. It’s enough that a small ecosystem of SSD coolers has sprung up….
ASRock says Ryzen 9000 CPU issues are fixed in new BIOS
Laying down the better part of a grand for the newest, most powerful CPU can be a harrowing experience, especially if you’ve heard that it has some issues with allegedly compatible motherboards….