Snapdragon X processors mark Qualcomm's leap into premium Windows laptops, combining ARM efficiency with multi-core performance rivaling Intel and AMD. Launched in 2024, X Elite and X Plus chips ...
Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...
Some folks act as if Intel and AMD have killed off the "high-end desktop" or HEDT market, but that's never really been the case. Instead, what happened is that mainstream desktops went from a maximum ...
Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them has been across-the-board awful or totally without redeeming qualities. But Intel has struggled ...
MacBooks New Low-Cost MacBook vs MacBook Air M1: Why Apple's new laptop could be the one to buy MacBooks MacBook Air M5 revealed: Price, release date and all the upgrades MacBooks New MacBook Pro M5 ...
Excellent gaming performance. Dead simple and effective overclocking. Not really an upgrade from the 9800X3D. Requires substantial cooling. For at least the past year, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been ...
Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday, and the news both for the quarter and for the year was mixed: year-over-year revenue was down nearly imperceptibly, from $53.1 ...
Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of mobile phone chips, said it’s extending a push into the market for processors that are the heart of personal computers. Its new X2 Plus processor is a scaled-back ...
TL;DR: At CES 2026, AMD unveiled the Ryzen AI 400 Series processors featuring integrated XDNA 2 NPUs with up to 60 AI TOPS, 12 Zen 5 cores, and Radeon RDNA 3.5 GPUs. These CPUs deliver enhanced ...
In brief: AMD dominated Amazon's best-selling CPU chart back in November 2024, taking the top 12 spots. But has Team Red managed to hold on to that momentum over a year later? Today, the top 14 ...
A high-performance silicon-based quantum processor has been developed in which the spins of nine phosphorus nuclei — divided into two groups, or registers — and two shared electrons act as quantum ...