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Fanless Ryzen 9 9950X seemingly outperforms the same liquid-cooled chip in Cinebench R23
Tony Yu, Asus China's general manager, created a "fanless" Ryzen 9 9950X PC featuring Asus components.
AMD to release the Krackan at CES
An eight-core Krackan Point APU has been found at Geekbench - neck and neck against Intel's Lunar Lake offerings.
Chinese Hygon C86-4G trades blows with AMD Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench
A new 16-core processor "Hygon C86-4G" has been tested in Geekbench but likely still uses AMD's aging Zen 1 architecture.
Fujitsu flaunts massive 144-core Monaka Arm chip
Fujitsu's Monaka is a monstrous processor with four 2nm compute chiplets, 5nm SRAM, and a massive 5nm IO die. This time, without HBM memory.
Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains
The 0x114 microcode for Arrow Lake has leaked online but initial performance numbers suggest minimal gains in performance.
30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon
Ken Shirriff, noted reverse engineer and processor historian, has identified the specific transistors, incorrectly laid, which caused the original Pentium to be recalled at a cost of $475 million.
Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.2 claims to improve Arrow Lake performance by up to 33%
Cyberpunk 2077 has received a surprise update that includes Arrow Lake optimizations that improve performance by up to 33%.
