In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power…
Huge demand for Ryzen X3D chips sparked a crazy quarter for CPUs
The CPU market experienced its most tumultuous quarter in some time, decreasing as a whole for AMD and Intel in terms of unit shipments. As Intel struggles, however, its competitors…
Intel’s latest Core Ultra CPUs slow down high-end SSDs, tests find
In another blow for Intel’s “Arrow Lake” or Core Ultra 200S platform, testing has confirmed that SSDs inserted into an M.2 slot on a Intel X890 motherboard won’t achieve their…
Intel’s older CPUs are being snapped up. Well, duh
To me, the biggest surprise of Intel’s earnings call wasn’t that Intel is selling out of its older chips. It’s that people are finally paying attention. For years, the mantra…
Intel customers are buying up all its older CPUs to beat tariffs
How are Intel’s customers weathering tariffs and a possible recession? By buying Intel’s older products, and not its latest chips. Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner told analysts on Thursday…
Ziroh Labs and the Indian Institute of Technology partner to launch Kompact AI, which they say is an affordable AI system to run large models on standard CPUs (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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What could possibly be more fun than going out into an untamed wilderness, slaughtering dozens of terrifying creatures, then eating them and wearing their skin? Nothing! Which is probably why…
Intel’s Core Ultra 200 laptop CPUs deliver shocking performance gains
Intel’s Core 285H chip, the first member of its Core Ultra 200 or “Arrow Lake-H” family for laptops, has a big crater to fill. Yes, crater: This processor essentially bombed…
Rumors swirl of Nvidia Arm CPUs for PCs coming later in 2025
Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm. Which do you want powering your PC? If you don’t prefer any of them, you might have another option soon — and the name will be…
Beware: Intel voids warranty for liquid metal, even for crashing CPUs
“Liquid metal” thermal paste, which replaces the usual chemical compound with a metallic alloy, can increase the thermal conductivity between your CPU and cooler. That’s why it’s popular with overclockers…