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It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
News Intel might give Arrow Lake a polish in the meantime, but that'll be it.
Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia
News Another day, another Intel GPU cancellation.
Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop
News Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake won't be pure 18A, it seems... but at least it'll have some 18A compute.
New Intel Battlemage graphics cards spotted but they may not be the cut-price RTX 4070 killers we're all desperate for
News G31, G31, where for art thou, G31?
Forget DeepSeek R1, apparently it's now Alibaba that has the most powerful, the cheapest, the most everything-est chatbot
News Better than GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1, allegedly.
Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
News The catch is that it's only really fast enough to serve one user with semi-useful gibberish at a time.
Intel's modular designs could make your next laptop last longer, but probably won't deliver the holy grail of cheap GPU upgrades
News And how about a shout out for Framework?
China's DeepSeek chatbot reportedly gets much more done with fewer GPUs but Nvidia still thinks it's 'excellent' news
News Nvidia claims more AI from fewer chips is good for business.
If Trump's new threat of massive 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan comes true an RTX 5090 for $2,000 will seem cheap
News How about an RTX 5080 for $2,000....?
Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2025: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers
Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.
Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration's safety order
News Kiss goodbye to Executive Order 14110.
AMD finally gives the Radeon RX 9070 XT a release date and it's (roughly) March
News At the very back end of that 'Q1' promise, then.
TikTok users wave goodbye to their 'Chinese spies' as they they ditch the app for another, er, Chinese one
News I for one welcome our new (still Chinese) social media overlords
An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value
4090 forever The new RTX 5090 doesn't look quite as compelling.
TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond
News Maybe Moore's law isn't quite dead.
Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards
News Blackwell GPUs aren't all exactly the same.
It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise
News Tennis ball NFTs sold by the Australian Open aren't money spinners, it seems.
AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'
News It's not just a couple of Zen 5 CCDs thrown together with a new GPU die.
Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something
News Or an untimely reminder that Intel's new Arrow Lake chips are still second best?
Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions
News Do we detect an attempt to flatter the incoming President?
It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels
News OLED adoption on the PC much faster than with TVs.
AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab
News Made in the USA, mostly anyway...
