Capping off a busy month for new processor announcements, Apple this week has announced a new generation of M-series Apple Silicon processors – and with it, a newly refreshed generation of MacBook Pros. Anchored by the new M3 series of processors, Apple has opted to launch most of the stack in a single go, announcing…
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The rivalry between Intel and AMD runs deep, with the two companies constantly vying to take the best processor crown. But few people would have expected the aggression contained in a new playbook presented by Intel, which insinuates that AMD is selling “snake oil” to unsuspecting customers.The claims were made in a slide deck dubbed…
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Nvidia is celebrating a major milestone with its RTX technology, announcing that 500 games and apps now incorporate RTX support in one form or another.Those are games and applications running ray tracing or DLSS (or both), making use of the dedicated cores on RTX graphics cards.As Nvidia reminds us, the first RTX GPU was the…
In May, AMD unveiled their Ryzen 7040U series of CPUs designed for thin and light notebooks, which they codenamed ‘Phoenix.’ Initially, AMD announced four Zen 4-based CPUs for the ultra-portable notebook market, with the Ryzen 7 7840U (8C/16T) and Ryzen 5 7640U (6C/12T) both leading the charge with AMD’s integrated Ryzen AI, which is AMD’s…
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Intel’s next-gen desktop processors, Arrow Lake, will be compatible with current-gen CPU coolers, according to new information.Tom’s Hardware picked up on this one with the observation that Azza has recently launched a couple of new liquid coolers (the Cube 240 and 360) which state that they support the LGA1851 socket. This is the socket that’ll…
Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs for laptops are set to arrive in December, and the company just demonstrated the integrated graphics on one of these Core Ultra processors running a big-name game nice and smoothly – with a little help from Intel’s DLSS rival, that is.The demo witnessed the Meteor Lake processor (presumably a top-end model,…
AMD has sent word over this morning that the company is extending the product lifecycle for their previous-generation EYPC 7003 “Milan” family of server CPUs. The company will now be offering the Zen 3-based CPUs through at least 2026, and as part of that extension plan, has already launched a further 6 SKUs. With these…
North Korea-backed threat actors are increasingly targeting software supply chains to attack organisations on a global basis, and becoming far more adept at doing so, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned in a joint advisory with South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS). This is the first time the NCSC has ever issued…
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In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Numbers in graphs reflect MSRP. CPU Market Overview, Holiday 2023 As we stride through the holiday period, the tinsel, glitz, and fanfare of…
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We may now have some clues regarding the pricing of Intel Meteor Lake laptops, with listings popping up online that give us a clearer idea of what you and your wallet could expect.Two laptops have been listed on a Bulgarian retailer site, with both models seemingly based on Lenovo’s Yoga Pro 7 with 32GB of…
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