First time since 2004

For the first time since 2004, global benchmarking data from PassMark has shown a decline in average CPU performance, with laptop processors experiencing a 3.4 per cent drop year-on-year.

Next-Generation processor details leaked

In a series of tweets, renowned hardware leaker Jaykihn has provided specifications for Chipzilla's forthcoming Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake processors, signalling major upgrades in performance and design.

Kicking Pat exited too soon

Software King of the Known World, Sir William Gates III said that Chipzilla has lost its way and Pat [kicking] Gelsinger was brave and right.

Makes its eyes water

Buried in AMD’s results on Tuesday was an overlooked number that should put the fear of Zeus into Intel: the company managed to outsell Intel in the data centre space for the first time in history.

US to slip to 18 per cent

Glorious socialist investments by the People’s Republic of China will mean that the workers will have a quarter of the global PC market by 2029, while the Imperialist capitalist United States will fall to 18 per cent.  

Apple told TSMC

Fruity cargo cult Apple chose to cosy up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) over Chipzilla for its custom silicon because “Intel didn’t know how to be a foundry.”

Attacking e-waste and repairability

 Troubled Chipzilla is reinventing itself as a champion of the right-to-repair movement and wants to design modular PCs.

It can’t come soon enough

Intel’s coming Nova Lake has been spotted in the wild in a shipping manifest seen by X86 is dead&back.

Today, Intel; tomorrow the world

Elon [look at me] Musk, Global Foundries, and Qualcomm are in Florida, where they will are rumoured to be plotting to buy Intel.

After 28 years working for Chipzilla

Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran and lead engineer on numerous Xeon server processors, has exited the company to join Qualcomm.