ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year, Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD […]

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AMD has unlocked upto 215% higher performance on its Threadripper CPUs in Handbrake through fixes. Handbrake Was Limited To 64-Cores, AMD Managed To Fix That & Brought Up To 215% Higher Performance With its Threadripper CPUs AMD worked with HandBrake to fix the missing performance on its Threadripper CPUs, bringing a 181% increase in transcoding performance on its Threadripper PRO and 215% boost on its Ryzen Threadripper CPU lineup. According to AMD, Video transcoding applications such as Handbrake benefit massively from higher core counts, but that wasn't exactly the case with its Threadripper lineup, where the CPU performance didn't scale; […]

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We now have the first confirmed details about AMD's Zen 6-based Threadripper CPUs, code-named Mustang Peak.

AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected.

Intel’s next-gen desktop plans are starting to take shape, and Computex entertained a lot of murmurs about what’s coming from Team Blue over the next year at the event.

Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.

AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.

Intel's Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.

The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its Arm-based Vera server CPUs could be available as soon as August.

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.

Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.

The massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out and it's showing positive signs of growth for AMD, while Intel is unfortunately on a decline. The Red Team posted its best-ever CPU market share numbers in May 2026 with 45% of all CPUs on Windows being from AMD, while Intel is down to 55%, which is still more for now.

YouTuber challenges himself to alleviate a CPU bottleneck with a Core i7-6700K paired with an RTX 3080 through overclocking.

Intel introduces two new Raptor Lake CPUs in its Core 200H series lineup featuring disabled integrated graphics chips. The new CPUs are likely geared towards SFF desktops rather than laptops and 2-in-1 devices.

Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh that's supposedly debuting next year will shift focus to a more upmarket audience, only refreshing its Core 5 and Core 7 tiers. The new silicon at the top-end would feature 8 cores, up from 6 cores on Wildcat Lake right now, with the 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores. The Core 3 parts are claimed to remain unchanged.

Qualcomm has Snapdragon C to compete in the exciting low-cost laptop market, but it's also looking to build an entire agentic AI ecosystem on Qualcomm silicon.

Computex 2026 is in full swing in Taipei

AMD welcomes Nvidia into the market with RTX Spark, saying that its Strix Halo and upcoming Gorgon Halo products will be superior.

Intel has unveiled the Xeon 6377P, a 12-core Bartlett Lake server processor featuring a 5.7 GHz boost clock, ECC support, and a 95W TDP. The unusual Xeon targets entry-level enterprise workloads where single-threaded performance matters more than massive core counts.