Chipzilla regenerates failed architecture 

If a leaked manual is anything to go by, Troubled Chipzilla may not be ready to give up on Arrow Lake-S just yet.

Standard, passive, and liquid-cooled

Although we were pretty sure they were coming, Sparkle has rather quietly listed several Intel Arc PRO B60 graphics cards, including a standard blower-style one, as well as a passive and liquid-cooled version.

Claims Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V runs rings around rivals

Troubled Chipzilla is trying to claw back relevance in the laptop game, and it seems like its latest Lunar Lake platform might deliver a proper AI punch. If you believe Intel's own benchmarks.

Chipmaker eyes light-speed AI arms race against Nvidia

AMD is turning up the heat on Nvidia by snapping up photonic circuit boffin Enosemi in a bid to muscle into the next frontier of chip tech.

Rumour mill suggests a Q4 2025 launch for Intel’s would-be flagship GPU

Troubled Chipzilla's Arc Battlemage B770 graphics card  was a no show at Computex 2025, but that hasn’t killed off hopes of its existence. According to Dutch outlet Tweakers, who had a word with insiders during the event, the flagship card is still in the oven and may finally emerge in Q4 2025.

Says Low-NA is still pulling its weight

TSMC appears to be in no rush to adopt ASML’s pricey High-NA EUV machines, despite rivals like Troubled Chipzilla already scribbling them into future roadmaps.

Intel, Micron, Qualcomm say tarrifs could blow up their supply chains

Troubled Chipzilla has joined forces with Micron and Qualcomm to tell the Trump administration to pack in the semiconductor tariff sabre-rattling.

Prototype microchannel cooler targets 1,000W heat 

Troubled Chipzilla is playing with water again, this time showing off an in-package liquid cooler at its Foundry Direct Connect shindig. Rather than slapping a chunky block on top of an IHS, this design squirts coolant directly over the silicon, using copper microchannels to hit only the bits that get seriously toasty.

 Cooked up by insider and dodgy supplier

Troubled Chipzilla has found itself embroiled in a financial scandal in Israel after a former employee and a crooked component supplier allegedly siphoned off more than NIS 3 million, or about €776,000, in a long-running scam that went unnoticed for more than a year.

Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors

Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks.