Central processing units (CPUs) are having a renaissance, and Nvidia says they're "becoming the bottleneck" amid surging agentic AI workflows. Intel and AMD remain the leaders in data center CPUs, but ...

TL;DR: Dell and Lenovo plan to launch laptops in 2026 featuring NVIDIA's new Arm-based N1 and N1X chips, combining CPU and GPU for power-efficient performance. These SoCs, developed with MediaTek, aim ...

Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them has been across-the-board awful or totally without redeeming qualities. But Intel has struggled ...

Excellent gaming performance. Dead simple and effective overclocking. Not really an upgrade from the 9800X3D. Requires substantial cooling. For at least the past year, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been ...

Processors Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now Processors Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

The new flagship chip, based on the Oryon architecture and largely destined for AI-forward, pro-grade laptops, will feature an 80 TOPS NPU. Also incoming in 2026: two new X2 Elite premium processors.

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...

Summary: Xiaomi appears to be working on a “Chip Performance Dashboard” that would bring its smartphones even closer to traditional PCs. The option would function as a “CPU tuner” that would allow you ...

Strings found in MIUI firmware suggest Xiaomi is developing a ‘Chip performance dashboard’ feature. This dashboard would allow users to adjust CPU and GPU frequencies and voltages within safe ...

AMD is responsible for some of the best processors for gamers right now, but for a handful of unlucky users, these CPUs seem to be running into issues lately. Reports from Reddit indicate failures big ...

It’s easy to look strictly at the type of CPU and GPU you have when evaluating the kind of performance you’re likely to get in PC games. But beyond that lies another important stat, the CPU cache.