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PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
By Jeremy Laird published
News IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.

This absurdly generous Newegg bundle gives you an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, AND Monster Hunter Wilds all for just $230
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal I've hunted down a bargain for you.

TSMC might have to fork over $1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor
By Jacob Fox published
News $1 billion here, $1 billion there, who's counting?

Trump gave global chipmaking leader TSMC an offer it could not refuse: 'All I did is say if you don't build your plant here you're gonna pay a big tax... 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%'
By Jacob Fox published
News More stick than carrot.

AMD is reportedly plotting an NPU-enabled 'Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme' chip for handhelds and we still can't figure out what it'll do for us aside from drain more the battery juice
By Jeremy Laird published
News If you really must have Copilot+ in your hands...

So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
By Jeremy Laird published
News That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin...

The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
By Jeremy Laird published
News The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...

Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
By Jeremy Laird last updated
News This surely isn't just a case of a few crumbs...
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