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Intel could show off its next generation of desktop graphics cards next month. Based on the Battlemage architecture found on Lunar Lake, they will compete with mid-range offerings from Nvidia and AMD.

A Lenovo product manager claims Intel's Panther Lake-H lineup will debut at CES 2026. However, a noted X leaker says it could happen sometime in 2025, echoing Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's sentiments in a recent earnings call.

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H Arrow Lake-H laptop processor has shown up on Geekbench. It has a 16-core CPU (6 P-cores + 10 E-cores) and boosts up to 5.4 GHz. It was tested alongside a Dell laptop with 64 GB RAM.

Intel surpasses Q3 revenue expectations at $13.28 billion despite posting losses, with CEO Pat Gelsinger attributing the red ink to one-time costs. While expanding U.S. manufacturing with $30 billion in investments, Intel faces delays in receiving CHIPS Act funding, pushing the company to explore alternative financing routes.

The United States Commerce Department is figuring out ways to keep Intel afloat after it posted $16.3 billion in losses this quarter. One of the options includes a merger with market rivals such as AMD and Marvell.

Vaio has unveiled the Vaio SX14-R and Vaio Pro PK-R as a pair of highly configurable laptops with lightweight and thin builds. Unfortunately, the company has made a rather odd decision when it comes to the processors with which the pair are available.

According to a roundup of 20 Intel Arrow Lake launch reviews, Intel's latest Core Ultra 200S chips only convince in efficiency. The Core Ultra 200S processors deliver marginal increases in application performance while taking a noticeable hit in gaming.

The Haier Y16 is a productivity-focused laptop that is said to offer decent computing power. The Y16 boasts a large 16-inch 1200p panel with a standard 60Hz refresh rate. It is powered by an Intel i5-12450H processor, paired with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.

Khadas and Asus are among the few brands that introduced Intel Lunar Lake mini PCs. However, it seems like more options are on the way, as Machenike has just officially showcased a Core Ultra 7 258V mini PC in China.

A noted Weibo leaker has said many OEMs have opted out of using Arrow Lake-HX/Zen 5 CPUs in their gaming laptops. Instead, they will pair the GeForce RTX 50 GPUs with Zen 4/Meteor Lake/Raptor Lake SKUs.

Extreme overclocker Kovan Yang pushes Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 memory to an unprecedented 12,108 MT/s using liquid nitrogen cooling, setting a new world record. The achievement comes amid a wave of DDR5-12000+ breakthroughs from other overclockers using Intel's latest platform.

Moore's Law is Dead has heard from sources that Samsung and Apple are looking to acquire Intel. Both companies are allegedly after Intel's foundry business, which would give them unfiltered access to cutting-edge nodes from Intel.

Intel's Core Ultra 285K processor, which is the flagship model from the newly released Arrow Lake-S series, has been sold out in Japan as well as the US. As per reports, retailers in Japan said that the processor is likely to back in stock this weekend.

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K has been overclocked to 7.4 GHz shortly after its official launch. It was done by prolific overclocker Elmor on an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 motherboard

When the price hits €2,000, expectations are high. The Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 5 IRX delivers on some of our expectations - but apart from the great performance, there are too many compromises.

It seems the fate of Intel's discrete GPU division is riding on the success of the Intel Arc Battlemage cards. According to a leak from Moore's Law Is Dead that also reveals the specs and performance of the BMG G31 and G21 dies, Intel is "expected to cancel" the in-development Celestial dGPU if Battlemage fails.

After escaping a fine of over $1.1 billion, Intel is now free of all the legal trouble connected to the nearly two-decade-long fight with EU regulators, thanks to a decision of the EU Court of Justice. The tech giant had been accused of trying to block AMD by awarding rebates to Lenovo, Dell, HP, and NEC.

Shortly before the release of Arrow Lake reviews, leaker Moore's Law Is Dead has revealed some important and disturbing details regarding the performance and issues faced by the new Core Ultra 200 CPUs. The leaker claims that ARL-S brings virtually no gaming performance gains and even regresses heavily in some cases.

Intel is reportedly preparing a CPU architecture with "Griffin Cove" P-cores to follow 2026's Nova Lake. The architecture, the codename for which is yet to be revealed, could bring a double-digit IPC uplift, do away with the old E-core design, and be based on the Intel 14A-P process node.

Intel's upcoming Core 200 series mobile processors have leaked, revealing seven new Raptor Lake refresh chips. From the powerhouse Core 270H, which hits 5.8 GHz, to efficient U-series models running at 15W, these processors will complement Intel's Core Ultra lineup when they launch next year.

Intel's upcoming Arc 140T integrated GPU shows impressive muscle, outperforming its Lunar Lake sibling by over 60 percent in recent GFXBench tests. The chip is expected to power Arrow Lake mobile processors in early 2025.

According to new reports, Microsoft is plotting an Intel Lunar Lake refresh of not just the Surface Laptop, but also its Surface Pro 2-in-1. A potential release window has also been revealed, as have various specifications for both devices.

A recent Geekbench 6 listing reveals that the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 9 285 non-K CPU with a TDP of just 65 watts narrowly defeats the outgoing 125 W Core i9-14900K in both single-core and multi-core scores despite featuring fewer threads owing to the lack of hyper-threading support.

TSMC firmly rejects the idea of acquiring Intel's manufacturing plants despite Intel's struggles to attract customers for its foundry business. The rejection highlights fundamental differences between the two chip giants' business models and operational strategies.

Intel has released new graphics drivers offering significant performance improvements for both integrated and discrete GPUs, with gains of up to 24% for Lunar Lake iGPUs and 20% for Arc Alchemist GPUs. The update includes optimizations for several games, including No New drivers support Intel CPUs from the 11th Generation to the latest Lunar Lake processors.

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K was found flexing its muscles in CPU-Z as well as Blender. In both the benchmarks, the Arrow Lake-S CPU outperformed its predecessor, but failed to outclass AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X in the latter test.

Lenovo's newest premium ThinkPad is almost here: The featherweight Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition is pre-orderable now. Customers have to pay a premium, though, as only high-end configurations are available.

From 2016 to 2024, Apple has seemingly outperformed Intel and AMD in terms of total single-core and IPC uplifts according to an observation made by a user on X. Looking at the data, Apple has increased the IPC of their chips by an astounding 129%, a figure that is much larger than Cupertino's x86 competitors.

Intel's upcoming Core 3 N350 processor shows modest graphics performance in a leaked Geekbench 5 OpenCL score. With 6,191 points, it's on par with older integrated graphics and entry-level discrete GPUs. This suggests Intel may struggle to compete with AMD in the more budget-friendly market segment.

The Intel Arrow Lake CPUs appear to be beastly multi-core chips as an entry in the SiSoftware database for the Core Ultra 7 265K shows a better performance score than the Ryzen 9 9950X. This is an interesting development since the Core Ultra 7 265K lacks hyperthreading.

Intel's latest NPU driver update supports Arrow Lake CPUs and OpenVINO 2024.4 and addresses performance issues in AI applications. The update highlights the growing importance of NPUs in modern computing, with Intel recommending users disable them in the BIOS for potential security reasons.

Intel Panther Lake, a CPU architecture that was supposed to succeed Lunar Lake for laptops, could be coming to desktops next year. According to leaker Moore's Law Is Dead, Panther Lake chips will use Arrow Lake's LGA 1851 socket and pack Cougar Cove P-cores with a double-digit IPC gain.

Microsoft currently offers the Surface Laptop with Intel Meteor Lake and Qualcomm Snapdragon X chipsets. However, a new leak has revealed that a new Intel Lunar Lake option is in the works with the same redesign that debuted earlier this year with the Snapdragon X-powered Surface Laptop 7.

Setting their differences aside, Intel and AMD have joined forces with other industry heavyweights to advance the x86 architecture in a bid to steal the spotlight away from ARM-based IPs like the Apple M series and Qualcomm Snapdragon X lineup. Intel and AMD want to ensure x86 remains the computing platform of choice for decades to come and will work towards streamlining the architecture's performance, efficiency, and AI capabilities for the future.

ASRock's Z890 Taichi motherboard reveals an intriguing RAM speed disparity for Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs. K-series processors' RAM speeds can reach 9066 MHz, while non-K variants are limited to 7200 MHz.

MINISFORUM has released a new set of mini-PCs based around 7-litre cases. Billed as the 129i7 and 790S7, the pair combine powerful modern processors with full-size PCIe slots for desktop graphics card expansion.

In a recent performance review comparing Intel's Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200 series laptop processors on Linux and Windows 11, performance on Linux was consistently better across almost all benchmarks. Linux was on average 14% faster, and Blender 3D rendering and heavily multi-threaded workloads saw the biggest performance gap.

A newly leaked official slide has blown the lid off Intel's entire upcoming Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, giving us confirmed information regarding the Core Ultra 9, Core Ultra 7, as well as the Core Ultra 5 CPUs, which are expected to boast some serious single-threaded performance gains.

A new leaked Geekbench benchmark result has seemingly exposed the upcoming Core 7 250H laptop CPU as a 14th-Gen CPU in disguise. This may be disappointing to some, but it may mean top-tier performance in a cheaper package.

With the jump to TSMC's 3 nm fabrication process, intel's Arrow Lake-S processor will mainly focus on power efficiency improvements rather than performance gains over the previous gen. The leaked slides show that the Core Ultra 9 285K is slightly lagging behind the i9-14900K in games, but the TDPs are lowered by 80W on average. A similar performance situation is presented versus AMD's previous Ryzen 7000 and current Ryzen 9000 processors.