17 Mar, 2025

AMD makes CPU and GPU comeback in latest Steam Hardware Survey — Red Team regains lost ground from Nvidia and Intel

AMD is showing significant gains in November’s latest Steam hardware survey: it’s up 4.7% in GPUs and 8.4% in CPUs. That’s all at the expense of Nvidia and Intel, which saw equally significant losses. However, this is more of a return to the status quo than AMD suddenly posting substantial gains. October’s Steam hardware survey […]

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Next-gen Intel Core Ultra H Meteor Lake CPUs power upcoming Dell Alienware laptops, to be announced at CES per leak

The Windows Report claims to have leaked every product that Dell is set to unveil at CES this upcoming January, including Alienware gaming laptops equipped with Meteor Lake CPUs. Dell’s choice to use Intel’s next generation CPU is a vote of confidence for its gaming performance, though Meteor Lake won’t be powering every upcoming Alienware […]

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Amazon solidifies push into custom chips that replace Intel and AMD processors, unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers

Amazon on Tuesday introduced two of its new processors, which will be used exclusively by its Amazon Web Service (AWS) division. The two new system-in-packages are the Graviton 4 processor for general-purpose workloads and the Trainium 2 processor for artificial intelligence training. The new devices will power AWS instances that will provide supercomputer-class performance to Amazon clients.  Graviton4 Amazon’s […]

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Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite budget crisis — billions in funding still in limbo

The German government is committed to supporting the construction of chip fabs by Intel, TSMC, and Wolfspeed, despite facing financial challenges due to a budget crisis, reports HardwareLuxx. In fact, Intel and Wolfspeed have already received firm funding commitments from the government. “The decisive sentence is, all projects that we have conceived must be made possible,” said Robert Habeck, Minister […]

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Ericsson processors built on ‘Intel 4’ process node beat Meteor Lake to deployment

Intel’s biggest foundry customer right now is arguably Ericsson, a company that deals in networking and 5G chips. Ericsson’s latest RAN Compute processors are utilizing the Intel 4 process node, the same node that’s used for Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake CPU tile, and Ericsson apparently beat Intel to market. This new partnership is the latest […]

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AMD Ryzen 8040HS Hawk Point CPU benchmarks show modest gains — Phoenix reborn to fight Intel Meteor Lake

AMD’s Ryzen 7040 series (Phoenix Point) just came out earlier this year. However, the chipmaker appears to already have a refresh ready in the form of the Ryzen 8040 series (Hawk Point). These won’t try to compete with the best CPUs for gaming or the best budget CPUs, at least not directly, as they’re primarily […]

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I’ve looked at all the GPU prices this Black Friday, and most of the ‘real’ deals are on Intel Arc graphics cards

If you’re looking for a great deal on a new graphics card for Black Friday, you’re not alone. Because who wouldn’t want a GPU upgrade at a discount? The problem is that determining which GPUs are true deals and which are simply slight discounts can be tricky. Lots of places list original MSRPs that are, […]

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Intel and TSMC could lose billions in chip factory funding thanks to stalled German budget, Intel construction is already underway

Subsidies that multinational chipmakers are set to receive to build their fabs in Europe will come from two sources: the European Union itself, as part of the European Chips Act approved in July, and individual states. So far, Germany has promised $22 billion in incentives to chipmakers like Intel and TSMC, which is why the companies announced plans to build fabs there. […]

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