Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at

Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.

64-core SKU with 336ML of L3 cache and 350W TDP

Intel is preparing its new W890 platform for next-gen Xeon 6 workstation system and a 64-core Xeon 696X SKU has been spotted in SiSoftware Sandra database, running at 4.4GHz base clock and 4.51GHz Boost.

Insists it has done nothing wrong as talent wars flare up

Troubled Chipzilla is digging in after TSMC accused one of its newly hired vice presidents of breaching a nondisclosure agreement.

Memory bump arrives as the platform’s future window shrinks

Troubled Chipzilla has confirmed that its Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S refresh chips will natively handle quicker DDR5 speeds.

Taiwan’s chip titan bristles as a retired strategist jumps ship

TSMC has kicked off a probe into former vice president of corporate strategy Lo Wen jen after he leapt from retirement into a new gig at Troubled Chipzilla.

Platform logs hint at a power-hungry monster

Intel's next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon parts have shown up in NBD’s shipment records, and the numbers suggest these chips will need a miniature power station to run.

Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

Defecting Windows users make up the bulk of the curious crowd

Open saucy Zorin OS 18 has clocked a million downloads in a single month, which is not bad for a Linux distro trying to lure disillusioned Windows refugees.

Black Friday exposes just how badly the new CPUs are struggling

Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra 200 series has seen its prices nearly halved since launch, a sign of how little love the Arrow Lake chips are getting. Amazon’s Black Friday sale pushed them to fresh lows, and some models now sell for barely half their original tags.

Quad-rank CKDs promise fatter modules for next-gen desktops

JEDEC is hammering out a CQDIMM standard for DDR5 CKD memory that will let future platforms cram in far higher capacities without slowing everything to a crawl.