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TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'
By Jacob Fox published
News If you build it, they will come.

The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
By Jeremy Laird published
News Oh well, looks like gaming GPUs are still going to be hard to come by.

Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency
By Jeremy Laird published
News Nvidia's Arm chip said to match an RTX 4070 laptop's gaming performance at barely more than half the power consumption.

This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto
By Hope Corrigan published
News A backdoor and a clipbanker were found in the download software, and a potentially very harmful worm might be on the included USB for software installation.

AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips
By Jacob Ridley published
Computex Coming June 2025.

Intel claims its next-gen 'Panther Lake' mobile chips will combine the power efficiency of Lunar Lake mobile with the performance of Arrow Lake-H desktop
By James Bentley published
Computex Hopefully, we'll see it in a handheld soon.

Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
By Nick Evanson published
news Anybody want a bigger NPU? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
By Jeremy Laird published
News Arm's CPU market share reportedly increases from 10.8% to 13.6% in just one quarter.

Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

It sounds like a six-word horror story, but 'Ransomware running directly from your CPU' is now a real thing
By Hope Corrigan published
News "Ransomware at the CPU level, microcode alteration, and if you are in the CPU or the firmware, you will bypass every freaking traditional technology we have out there."
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