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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.

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.

A new leak says AMD plans to unveil its first Zen 5 X3D CPU soon. This time, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first to show up and come with a hefty price tag.

With the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 around the corner, phones that are expected to feature it are popping up on Geekbench. The iQOO 13 is one of them, and in its latest benchmark run, the next-gen Qualcomm SoC beats the Apple A18 Pro in multi-core score and achieves a very close single-core score.

AMD's upcoming gaming-focused Ryzen 9000X3D lineup of CPUs is widely expected to hit shelves sometime next month. If the recent performance leaks in both synthetic and gaming tests are anything to go by, we can expect very decent improvements from AMD's upcoming gaming monstrosities.

A new MediaTek chipset has been spotted in Xiaomi HyperOS's firmware code. Codenamed MT6899, it's believed to be the Dimensity 8400, which is said to be a sub-flagship chipset that will be positioned below the newly announced Dimensity 9400.

Nvidia and MediaTek are reportedly working together to bring a fresh new offering to the desktop-class processor market. The 3nm chip is expected to tape out this month, with mass production set to begin in 2025. Lenovo, Asus among others are already eyeing the chip, if the report is to be believed.

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 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.

Cinebench scores for the rumoured AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D have leaked, revealing an almost 30% performance boost over the previous-generation CPUs. These performance improvements are present in both single- and multi-core benchmarks, meaning the Ryzen 9000 CPUs with 3D V-Cache should be gaming powerhouses.

China's state-backed JFS Laboratory has unveiled the country's first silicon photonics chip, a significant advancement that could revolutionize AI and high-performance computing. This novel technology uses lasers instead of traditional copper wires, offering increased bandwidth, reduced latency, and improved energy efficiency.

Intel's upcoming 'Arrow Lake-S' Core Ultra 9 285K desktop CPU boasts quite the punch in terms of single-threaded performance. Due to its lack of hyper-threading support, however, falls way back in the pack in multi-threaded scores, ending up losing not just to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, but also its own predecessor - the Core i9-14900K.

Huawei is rumored to be working on an ARM-based Kirin PC processor, which is expected to rival the Snapdragon X lineup and Apple M series chips. While it was said to be released this year, the latest report suggests that the launch has been delayed.

Vivo is confirmed to unveil the X200 series in China on October 14. The new flagship Android phones will be powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 9400, which has just been shown to be the first to score over 3 million points in AnTuTu.

The Galaxy S24 FE launched with Exynos 2400e, which isn't exactly the same chip that powered the non-FE vanilla and Plus smartphones in most regions. However, Samsung says that there isn't any significant difference between the two.

With the launch of the Core Ultra 7 258V, Intel now has the most powerful iGPU in the world in the Arc 140V. According to a gaming test conducted on the chip, the Arc 140V performs impressively well with FSR/XeSS image upscaling. This bodes well for the upcoming Lunar Lake handheld gaming consoles.

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core performance of the upcoming 14-core Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake CPU has leaked. According to the 25,000+ result, the ARL-S chip should comfortably leave the Ryzen 5 9600X and the Ryzen 7 9700X behind. However, the Core Ultra 5 245K seemingly only offers a marginal improvement over the Core i5-14600K.

Intel's desktop CPU roadmap sees major shifts, with the LGA-1851 socket now set to debut with Arrow Lake-S instead of Meteor Lake-S. The company has also canceled plans for a refresh of Arrow Lake-S, suggesting a growing focus on mobile platforms like Lunar Lake and Panther Lake.

CheckMag The PS5 Pro is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. At $699 (plus $75 extra if you want a physical disk drive), that’s a good chunk of change for a device that only really plays games. So, exactly how much PC could one buy for that amount of cash, and would it be competitive?

The 2024 Asus Zenbook S16 featuring the latest Ryzen AI 9 365 Strix Point APU is now on sale at Best Buy at a cool 14% discount. Being a Zenbook S laptop, the Zenbook S16 is a premium notebook with a thin aluminum body with a relatively low weight and an excellent OLED screen.

According to a rumor that has just surfaced, Intel has reportedly canceled a desktop CPU architecture that was rumored to launch late next year. Assuming this to be true, Intel Arrow Lake CPUs will now be the only chips from Team Blue against AMD's offerings till 2026.

Apple's A18 Pro handily defeats all other smartphone SoCs to secure the first position in Geekerwan's smartphone SoC rankings, outperforming the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300. The A18 Pro leads in CPU performance, although its GPU performance leaves a lot to be desired.

The Arrow Lake CPUs could boast a double-digit single-core performance increase over the Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 as well as 14th-gen Intel chips according to a leaked Cinebench R23 Single-Core result. The leaked result is accompanied by Intel's supposed projections for the single-core gain enjoyed by the ARL processors.

More and more Strix Point products are being announced, and none of them are affordable. A GPD representative has shed some light on it, claiming that AMD is selling the Zen 5 APUs at 2x the price of Hawk Point processors.

AMD has allegedly fixed the latency issue affecting the dual-CCD Ryzen 9000 CPUs. The fix has come in the form of a new AGESA update that is currently in beta. The fix has reportedly managed to reduce the Zen 5 inter-CCD latency to Zen 4 levels.

MediaTek will fully unveil the Dimensity 9400 next month, but the new flagship SoC has already made rounds in Geekbench. One of the recent listings shows that the chipset can deliver a better multi-core score than the Apple A18 Pro.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 flagship SoC is set to arrive with an all-performance-core setup, setting the stage for a flagship SoC face-off with the Apple A18 Pro and the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.

The Google Tensor G4 has been benchmarked on 3DMark Wild Life Extreme by Golden Review. Per the benchmark scores shared, the Pixel 9 SoC hardly beats the Tensor G3, and it can't match the score of the 2021 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

The Bat Signal has been illuminated for fans looking to take their Batman and custom PC build obsessions to the next level. Despite featuring modest specs, there are seldom opportunities to snag a PC build with this level of quality and attention to detail.

An early Geekbench run of Apple A18 revealed underwhelming multi-core scores, but there have been new entries since then. These new runs of the iPhone 16 SoC have multi-core scores similar to the Apple M1.

While the unreleased Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF seems to handily outperform its predecessor — the Core i7-14700K — AMD seems to be holding onto its multicore-performance-per-dollar crown for the time being. The Core Ultra 7 265KF seems to fall significantly behind Ryzen CPUs that will likely cost around the same when Intel Arrow Lake actually launches.

Apple has just announced the iPhone 16 lineup, which brings many upgrades, including two new SoCs. The Apple A18 of the non-Pro models has seemingly been tested on Geekbench, and the multi-core score is a little underwhelming.

Intel fans who were hoping for Arrow Lake CPUs to end the gaming hegemony of AMD's X3D chips might be in for a disappointment. According to a recent rumor, Intel Core Ultra 200K processors are not expected to considerably or "really at all" outrun the Ryzen 9000X3D in gaming despite a possible double-digit IPC uplift.