
Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh arrives soon
New chips try to plug the gap until Nova Lake shows up
Troubled Chipzilla is preparing to flog an ‘Arrow Lake Refresh’ update in the second half of this year, offering a mild clock boost and a swapped-out neural processing unit in a bid to stay relevant in a desktop market that’s increasingly swinging red.

Steam on Linux dips slightly as AMD takes CPU crown
Valve survey shows open-source crowd still keen on Deck-powered setups
Valve's latest Steam survey dropped a bit later than usual, but the Linux numbers are finally in and while there’s a tiny dip in overall share, the AMD crowd has reason to cheer.

ASML outlook dims as Intel wobble spooks investors
Bank of America slashes forecast, doubts Intel and SK hynix will save high NA EUV tech
Bank of America has taken a scalpel to ASML’s share price target, hacking it down to €759 from €795 on the back of waning enthusiasm for its latest high numerical aperture (high NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography gear.

Intel CEO eyes ditching 18A to woo Apple and Nvidia
Chen Liwu may dump billions into the bin
Intel’s new chief executive Chen Liwu, is ready to scrap its heavily hyped 18A process in a desperate attempt to snare big-name customers like the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Nvidia.

Intel readies Nova Lake cache brawler to take on AMD
bLLC could mirror 3D V-Cache magic without the heat headaches
Intel is plotting a comeback in the desktop gaming CPU arena with Nova Lake processors kitted out with hefty chunks of BLLC [big Last Line Cache]

Intel bets big on Nova Lake to claw back CPU crown
Intel’s leaked slide promise massive gains but remain years away
A leaked Intel slide is doing the rounds online, hyping its next-generation Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs with performance numbers that seem almost too good to be true.

Valve’s SteamOS now runs games better than Windows
Legion Go S testing shows Microsoft losing ground on its own turf
Valve’s SteamOS is now outperforming Windows in head-to-head gaming tests on the same hardware.

Intel ditches in-house auto unit
Lip-Bu Tan carries on Gelsinger’s spring clean
Troubled Chipzilla has finally decided its in-house automotive dabbling isn't worth the fuel and has opted to shut it down.

TSMC still king of Foundry 2.0 while Intel chases its tail
Intel claws second place as Samsung stumbles over its yields
TSMC is still lording it over the global chip foundry racket, holding on to a 35 per cent grip on what is dubbed the "Foundry 2.0" which covers everything from photomask manufacturing to chip packaging alongside the usual silicon stamping.

Canonical and Intel scrap GPU mitigations
Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero
Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent.