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AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su claims 'highest sell-out in many years' for desktop processors and the company is 'catching up with some demand' for gaming CPUs
By Jacob Fox published
News It's hard to deny the demand's there, so dish over that sweet stock.
![A close-up photo of AMD's AM4 CPU socket](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VMxPwpAXMSumixYB67hAHY-320-80.jpg)
Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
By Jeremy Laird published
News The PC isn't all about the latest tech.
![AMD press slide detailing the Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GZzeeehybScCGuoKxyrizZ-320-80.jpg)
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D CPUs are rumoured to launch at the end of March at roughly the same time as the RX 9070-series GPUs
By Andy Edser published
News Beefy CPUs are coming. Prepare your sockets.
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Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money
By Nick Evanson published
news Client, data, AI, networking, and edge were all up compared to 2023.
![A screenshot from a video by Ordinary Uncle Tony, showing the internal structure of Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPU](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wg5SGzHvrQhFLjgx765oWi-320-80.jpg)
It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel might give Arrow Lake a polish in the meantime, but that'll be it.
![A photograph of Intel's Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus standing on stage, with a background displaying Panther Lake and Intel 18A](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8cqRbAHoXpCxJEDgWeFmbF-320-80.jpg)
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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.
![Packaging for Intel Core i5 13400F and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended logo](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dpxySY7GWp6Fn2Vo37nf34-320-80.jpg)
Best CPU for gaming: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
![A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3yLpUZWYiRd2sXRskkh8B8-320-80.jpg)
Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
By Nick Evanson published
Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.
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