Trying to copy AMD

Chipzilla might have found a way to copy AMD’s X3D cache magic, using its shiny new 18A-PT process and hybrid bonding trickery.

Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers 

Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.

New ARC GPU push

Troubled Chipzilla has apparently slipped another ARC Battlemage graphics card into the pipeline, as a new “G31” model turned up in a shipping manifest en route to Intel Vietnam.

Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism

Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.

Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs

TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.

Intel’s Cougar Cove and Darkmont blueprints

An perfmon update has outed Troubled Chipzilla’s upcoming Panther Lake CPUs, revealing core architecture codenames and CPUIDs

Japan and Europe first

MSI's PRO Z890-S WiFi Project Zero motherboard with back-connect design is finally coming to retail as MSI Japan has announced that it will go on sale on May 2nd, and the motherboard is already available in Europe at €264.

Meteor Lake flops, Raptor Lake surges

Troubled Chipzilla's quarterly results show its flashy AI PC chips like Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake aren’t selling, and there's not enough factory space to supply the older models that customers want.

Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile

Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.

18A in awkward limbo

Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.