Intel adds AI and mass-market twists to 18A node
Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism
Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.
TSMC chickens out of high-NA EUV for A14
Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs
TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.
Chipzilla’s Panther Lake cores and CPUID confirmed
Intel’s Cougar Cove and Darkmont blueprints
An perfmon update has outed Troubled Chipzilla’s upcoming Panther Lake CPUs, revealing core architecture codenames and CPUIDs
MSI's PRO Z890-S WiFi Project Zero motherboard finally goes on sale
Japan and Europe first
MSI's PRO Z890-S WiFi Project Zero motherboard with back-connect design is finally coming to retail as MSI Japan has announced that it will go on sale on May 2nd, and the motherboard is already available in Europe at €264.
Chipzilla still stuck in tar pit
Meteor Lake flops, Raptor Lake surges
Troubled Chipzilla's quarterly results show its flashy AI PC chips like Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake aren’t selling, and there's not enough factory space to supply the older models that customers want.
Chipzilla boosts Arrow Lake
Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile
Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.
Intel's Nova Lake CPUs to tap Taiwan’s 2nm
18A in awkward limbo
Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.
Chipzilla’s axe is swinging again
Intel to slash 20 per cent of workforce in latest bloodbath
Troubled Chipzilla is back in the firing line, reportedly preparing to boot 20 per cent of its staff in what looks like the biggest cull since it last had a go in August.
Gelsinger gives Jensen a reluctant nod
Nvidia's doing everything Chipzilla should have done
Former Troubled Chipzilla CEO Kicking Pat Gelsinger, who bailed in December after a less-than-stellar run, has tipped his hat to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for running rings around his old firm.
Intel’s Arc B580 budget GPU has a big old problem
Performs well on new chips, tanks on older ones
The Arc B580 might be Chipzilla’s best foot forward in the GPU value game, with Tom’s Hardware calling it the $249 champ, but budget gamers hoping to slot it into their ageing rigs might be in for a nasty surprise.