Intel is still on schedule to at least announce Nova Lake at the end of the year, even if all rumors say the timelines have moved to next year. Apparently, the lowest-end 6-core Nova Lake mobile part targeted at budget markets won't be a part of that launch as the company is prioritizing Wildcat Lake for this segment.

AMD says that six-core X3D chips don't make sense for a broad market for a number of reasons, but a six-core X3D chip with the Zen 5 architecture is something the company is considering.

AMD just reintroduced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, but it wasn't as simple as spinning up the old manufacturing process, as the original bonding method TSMC used was no longer available.

Intel's Nish Neelalojanan spoke to us at Computex 2026 about Intel's new G3 chip line, how it impacts the burgeoning handheld gaming market, and how Intel is responding to rising chip and memory prices the world over.

Intel sat down with Tom's Hardware at Computex 2026, and the company says it recognizes the importance of Raptor Lake and DDR4 platforms as the memory crunch continues.

Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite is the only game that runs on Windows-on-Arm devices with a native ARM64 port for Easy Anti-Cheat, but the precedent is about to change.

Intel reacts to Nvidia’s RTX Spark announcement, and says that it’s treating the green giant’s entrance into consumer SoCs with “a healthy dose of skepticism."

Along with its first-generation RTX Spark platform for desktop and laptop PCs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company's commitment to future generations of those platforms on its future roadmaps.

Intel is putting its 18A node into the data center with new Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, which pack up to 288 E-cores for dense compute.

Intel has officially confirmed its next-gen Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs are coming in 2027, featuring 50% higher core counts and twice the memory bandwidth of Xeon 6 in a bid to compete against AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice CPUs.

AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.

AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers who’ve been under the thumb of rising component prices.

The N1X reportedly comes in two SKUs: a top-end 20-core option with 6,144 CUDA cores matching the desktop RTX 5070, and a cut-down 18-core option with 5,120 CUDA cores. The standard N1 also has two configs, one with a 12-core CPU and 2,560 CUDA cores and a 10-core model with 2,048 CUDA cores.

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