Part of the $3.5b investment and focused on advanced packaging technologies

Intel has opened up its new Fab 9 factory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The new factory is a part of Intel's previously announced $3.5 billion investment to equip its New Mexico operations for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies, namely Foveros, a 3D stacked packaging technology that stacks compute tiles vertically.

First time since Pentium 4

Chipzilla is likely to pull hyper-threading for the first time since the technology was first launched in the Pentium 4 era in the early 2000s.

New 1nm chip factory to beat Intel and Samsung

TSMC has just made the chip race a bit more exciting as the company has become the world's first foundry to prepare for 1nm production.

Generational mistake

TSMC could be about to make a mistake, costing it victory over a resurgent Intel.

Chipzilla might not be heading for the top after all

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn that Intel has very little expectation that its new Battlemage GPU will do much to ruffle the feathers of AMD or Nvidia.

Including gaming-oriented ROG NUC

At the CES 2024 in Las Vegas, ASUS unveiled its new NUC lineup, which includes both the new NUC 14 Pro and NUC 14 Pro+ as well as the ROG NUC.

Lunar Lake for mobiles coming as well

During its CES 2024 presentation, Intel's EVP and GM of client computing group (CCG), Michelle Johnston Holthaus, briefly discussed the next generation Arrow Lake for desktops and Lunar Lake for laptop chips and confirmed they are launching in 2024.

With up to Intel Core Ultra 155H CPU

As rumored earlier, MSI has unveiled its new MSI Claw gaming held powered by Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, claiming the world's first gaming handheld with such a CPU.

Up to 24-cores, higher boost clock, and 192GB DDR5 support

In addition to plenty of 14th gen Raptor Lake Refresh desktop SKUs, Intel has unveiled its new 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh HX-series mobile processors at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. These will bring improved performance thanks to higher clocks and other improvements and even promise some decent gaming performance, especially thanks to Intel APO.

A total of eighteen 65W and 35W SKUs

Intel has announced a total of 18 new Raptor Lake Refresh desktop CPUs, or as Intel likes to call them, 14th Gen Mainstream Desktop Processors. Intel is promising up to 37 percent higher multi-threaded performance compared to the previous generation.