The original machine had 512K of memory and a 10-megabyte hard drive described as slow, failure-prone, and noisy. There's also a drive for inserting floppy disks, and a separate MS-DOS board (with its own CPU) that could be plugged into the expansion slot but the device was "remarkably heavy," weighing in aqt 40 pounds See the strange 1984 mouse, and its keyboard with both a Return key and a separate Enter key

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D was never set up for success, but our testing reveals the ugly side of AMDs latest X3D CPU: higher power consumption for minuscule performance gains

Intels Investor relations team confirmed that customers are sweeping up the lower-quality chips, bringing in tangible revenue for the company

The main networking drivers removed affect the 3com 3c509 / 3c515 / 3c574 / 3c589, AMD Lance, AMD NMCLAN, SMSC SMC9194 / SMC91C92, Fujitsu FMVJ18X, and 8390 AX88190 / Ultra / WD80X3. Linux 7.1 also has removed the long-obsolete bus mouse support as well as beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support and removing support for Russia's Baikal CPUs

Diamond Rapids, also known as Xeon 7, was supposed to launch later this year, but a new leak from Jaykihn claims the timeline has now moved to 2027

Revenue jumped 22% from a year earlier to $5.1 billion, as AI fuels renewed demand for central processing units. Analysts at Citi upgraded the stock to a buy from a neutral rating, anticipating an uplift in CPU sales for all suppliers over the next few years

Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is a productivity beast, but can it hang with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in games? We put the two CPUs head-to-head

It's an arcade game in which you play baseball inside buildings, funnily enough. You'll play 1v1 matches against the CPU or a friend in local multiplayer

Intel is claiming that better software optimization for hybrid architecture CPUs can unlock up to 30% more performance without hardware upgrades

Intel’s Robert Hallock argues that there is one key factor that would make his employer’s hybrid CPU design really good: software optimisation

An Intel laptop with a new Wildcat Lake CPU is turning heads is it more Neo than the MacBook Neo?

The laptop is powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite, specifically the X2E-88-100 variant. It is an 18-core CPU (of which 12...

As workloads continue migrating towards inference and agentic AI, CPU-GPU ratios could converge to 1:1 or even tilt further in favor of CPUs

Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again..

After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giants homegrown silicon

Think SSDs are way too pricey? Rumor suggests storage will soon be more expensive, sadly

It is integrated with the all-new HydroFlow liquid cooling system, which covers a 6,437mm area, ensuring optimal thermal management. GT 50 Pro is equipped with MediaTeks Dimensity 8400, featuring an all-big core CPU architecture, faster GPU and better NPU performance

Honor Win H7 Gaming telah rasmi dilancarkan di China semalam sebagai komputer riba berfokuskan gaming. Ia menggunakan CPU Intel Core i7-14650HX yang dipadankan dengan GPU Nvidia RTX 5060 atau RTX 5070

Intel's Wildcat Lake family was launched recently, but no devices featuring the CPUs have actually shown up yet

AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is now officially available, as promised by David McAffee, VP and GM of Ryzen CPU and Radeon Graphics at AMD

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is AMD's latest CPU release

Alienware is the first to launch a system powered by AMDs Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, combining the new flagship CPU with high-end components

Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery Framework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, has spruced its line-up with a completely redesigned 13-inch model sporting the latest Intel CPUs, new components for its 16-inch system, and a dock that lets users add devices like a desktop graphics card.

Put together a pokey little gaming PC with components that won't break the bank. This $479 Newegg bundle includes a CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and a 360mm AIO CPU cooler

Intel is reportedly planning on releasing more unlocked desktop CPUs, particularly in the lower-tier segment of the market

Robert Hallock, Timbalan Presiden bahagian Enthusiast Channel di Intel baru-baru ini mengatakan bahawa kelak, lebih banyak cip pemprosesan Intel akan hadir dengan kemampuan untuk dilewahjam ataupun overclocking untuk pengguna kelak

Laptop includes Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, a bigger battery, and a touchscreen.

A lower-end Ryzen AI 340 CPU option will also bring the price down, for now

Most companies massively overprovision AI infrastructure, leaving GPUs and CPUs underutilized, while rising costs expose inefficiencies driven by fear and poor automation

In a new interview, Intel VP Robert Hallock unveiled a renewed focus on the entry-level enthusiast market with a commitment to release more budget-friendly unlocked CPUs over time

An $899 CPU? In this economy? Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is one of the most unique CPUs weve ever reviewed, and although its price feels like a kick in the gut, it offers some interesting, highly specialized improvements in certain workloads based on our testing

Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager's CPU usage meter.

Dave Plummer pops the hood on Task Manager and explains how it gets your PC's CPU usage (and why it feels off sometimes)

With similar pricing and target audiences, these two processors offer contrasting strengths across gaming, productivity, and power consumption

Rumour has it that AMD is planning on breathing new life to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The CPU, which is considered one of the best for PC gaming of its generation, will be reintroduced to the market as part of a limited edition AM4 10th anniversary processor in the second half of this year

Even with positive sales, the PC industry as a whole is by no means out of the woods. "The aggressive expansion in AI infrastructure investment is driving up overall component costs, which will likely impact the pricing of CPUs and other key components in [PCs]," Counterpoint Senior Analyst Minsoo Kang says

More fake SSDs and a CPU sales slump the casualties of the RAM crisis are piling up, sadly

AMD is rumored to launch the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition in the second quarter of this year

Intel has launched a new budget-focused Core Series 3 processor line for lower-cost laptops -- "Intel's response to budget CPUs that are appearing in laptops like the Apple MacBook Neo," writes PCWorld's Mark Hachman

Intel has officially pulled back the curtain on its latest Wildcat Lake series of CPUs

For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has started appearing at retailers, with Amazon currently offering the CPU at $1,000 $100 above the suggest retail pricing

Demand for CPUs by AI systems is creating positive sentiment and drives AMD and Intel stocks to their highs

Ex-Apple, ex-Nuvia CPU designers Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan establish Nuvacore startup to develop clean-sheet CPUs for always-on compute-intensive AI workloads

Newegg's latest combo bundle lets you pay $1299.99 for 64GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000 RAM, Samsung 1TB 990 Pro SSD, Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, and Asus RoG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi Motherboard

An impressively powerful CPU makes the TUF Gaming A14 a strong productivity machine, but underwhelming gaming performance undermines its value as a gaming laptop

Today, some more details about the former have been outed in China by the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo. According to him, the non-Pro Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (model number SM8950) will be built on a new TSMC 2nm process, and will feature a new Oryon CPU with two Prime cores, three High Performance cores, and three Performance cores

Newegg bundle that offsets the price of this $884.99 kit of 64GB of G.Skill RAM to just $216.01

A new leak claims Intel is prepping a 16-core CPU featuring 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, likely targeting the Ryzen G-series APUs

Save a massive $700 on this Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC with an Intel Core Ultra 265F CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD, all for just $1,899.99

Ancient 6 MHz PDP11 can train a neural network says veteran dev

Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation

Links to multiple CPUID tools hijacked and used to drop an infostealer

Although weve known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period

Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.

A new powerful chipset has arrived to take on x86 CPUs and Apple's M5, writes Wccftech

Intel and SambaNova introduce a hardware system combining GPUs, RDUs, and CPUs to handle inference workloads across execution, decoding, and orchestration tasks

Quite close. The slight CPU power difference may come down to the CPU usage with Chrome coming in slightly lower at 8.13% on average to 8.35% with Firefox

Linux kernel drops support for Intel 486 CPUs, prioritizing modern architectures, while retro users can still run old software and Linux apps

Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is going after the Ryzen 7 9700X with its $300 price point

Attackers briefly hijacked part of CPUID's backend and swapped legitimate download links on its site with malware-laced ones

Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools

Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.

Silverstones IceMyst Pro 360 is a unique AIO thats designed for RAM overclocking. This review is tested with AMDs Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU

The launch price of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has been revealed. The red chipmaker’s upcoming top of the line 3D V-Cache CPU will retail for US$899 (~RM3,568)

Nintendo's system also runs a PowerPC chip similar to those found in older Macs. "Given this close lineage, I felt confident that the CPU wouldn't be a blocker," they wrote

Intel tops $300 billion, its highest market capitalization in 25 years on AI, CPU, and foundry announcements momentum

Geekbench 6.7 comes with Intel BOT detection to ensure any runs using it are flagged

Intel and SambaNova announce heterogeneous inference platform that can take advantage of Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, SambaNova SN50 RDUs, and Nvidia GPUs

New Rowhammer attacks on Nvidia GPUs enable full system compromise by manipulating memory, exposing risks in shared environments despite limited real-world use

The SoC bears the S5E9975 model number, with the listing also containing the ERD identifier, which implies it is likely tested on an engineering board. Exynos 2700 features a 10-core CPU with ARMv8 cores

AMD revealed its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will launch for $899 on April 22, which marks a $200 price increase over the previous Ryzen 9 9950X3D

The X2 Elite-equipped A16 also comes with a whopping 48GB of RAM, which feels downright luxurious given our current RAM availability crisis, as well as a new 80-TOPS NPU for AI workloads. Geekbench 6 CPU Geekbench 6 GPU Cinebench 2024 ASUS Zenbook A16 (Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E94100) 3,262/20,808 43,849 98/1,238 ASUS Zenbook A14 (2025, Qualcomm Snapdragon X1) 2,113/10,316 9,603 96/540 Apple MacBook Air (M5) 4,193/17,270 47,656 N/A Microsoft Surface Laptop (2024, Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite) 2,797/14,400 19,963 123/969 I immediately felt the difference in power when I booted up the ZenBook A16

Bartlett Lake, Intel's P-core only family of CPUs intended for edge and industrial use cases has been modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboards

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year

Intel recently and silently rolled out the Core Ultra 7 251HX. The processor is part of its Arrow Lake-HX lineup, and while this is a quiet launch, the chip first appeared in a couple of laptops from Lenovo and MSI, and was originally thought to be an unannounced CPU