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ARM on the Desktop Is No Longer a Thought Experiment
For two years, Windows on ARM was a laptop story — and a shaky one. Then Computex 2026 happened.
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Intel 18A Is Live: Panther Lake and the Company's Last Clean Sheet
Seven months after launch, the reviews are in and the verdict is genuinely surprising: Panther Lake is good .
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One Core, 85.3 GFLOPS: How Software Optimization Squeezes Zen 3 Dry
A single-core FP32 matrix multiplication on a modest AMD Zen 3 CPU hit 85.3 GFLOPS — nearly 57 times faster than the naive implementation, and within striking distance of theoretical limits.
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AMD Doubled the Cache on the 9950X3D2 and Charged $900 for It
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is the first mainstream desktop chip to put stacked cache on both of its compute dies, which is a genuinely new configuration.
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What Wider SIMD Vectors Cost the Clock
Vector width is the one CPU feature that gets sold like clock speed and priced like die area.
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The 270K Plus Is Intel's Best CPU in Years on Its Worst Socket
Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is the first desktop processor from the company in three years that is priced like it wants to be bought.
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The $200 250K Plus Is the First Intel CPU in Years Worth Its Price
A $200 desktop processor that is actually competitive should not be remarkable, but it has been a while.
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AMD's 9850X3D Is an Overclock Sold Back to You for $50
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is the 9800X3D with a better bin and a bigger number on the box. Same cores, same cache, same socket, same 120 W label.
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Why Your OS Scheduler Guesses Wrong About Threads
Putting two kinds of core in one socket was an admission that most code does not need a wide, expensive core, and some code cannot survive without one.
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Chiplets Solved Yield and Created a Latency Bill
Splitting a big die into small ones is the main reason modern high-core CPUs are affordable to manufacture, and it moves a problem rather than deleting it.
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AM4 Refuses to Die, and the Ryzen 5 5500X3D Is a Salvage Chip Done Right
A motherboard socket that launched in 2016 is still getting new processors in 2025, and the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is the strangest proof of it: six cores,…
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64 Cores for $5,000: Threadripper 9980X Is a Workstation Chip With a Gaming Hangover
The Threadripper 9980X costs $5,000, carries a 350W TDP, and exists to run simulations, compilers, and financial models that pay for their own hardware.