Intel is reportedly moving away from employing P and E/LP E-cores on different architectures with the development of the Unified Core design. Team Blue is reportedly following in AMD's footsteps by having both P and E-cores use the same CPU architecture.

Deal | The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a long-lasting thin-and-light Windows laptop with Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 7 258V under the hood. The laptop can now be yours at a big 41% discount, as Best Buy is offering the Slim 7i 15 Aura Edition in "Open-Box Excellent" condition at less than $900.

Deal | The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a long-lasting thin-and-light Windows laptop with Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 7 258V under the hood. The laptop can now be yours at a big 41% discount, as Best Buy is offering the Slim 7i 15 Aura Edition in "Open-Box Excellent" condition at less than $900.

Apple is staggering the release of the iPhone 18, the iPhone Air 2, and the iPhone 18 Pro/Pro Max. As a result, it is now reported that the total iPhone 18 series shipments for 2026 are set to reduce by 20%. However, the financial hit of the lower shipments is expected to remain small.

Jim Keller's Royal Core project was reportedly dismantled by Intel into individual technologies that could be used in different CPU architectures. One of these technologies was a Unified Core design that would see Intel ditch separate P and E-cores. It has now come to light that Intel is indeed working on Unified Cores.

The Khadas Mind Pro, powered by the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and up to 64 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, is a super portable and powerful mini PC. The mini PC has been tested in synthetic benchmarks and a variety of AAA games. The results are quite impressive.

Sony has closed Bluepoint Games, the maker of critically acclaimed Demon's Souls remake. Sony cites difficult market conditions and rising costs as the reason for the studio's closure. However, PlayStation fans have not received the news well, and outrage is pouring all across social media.

Deal | The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16 Gen 10 gaming laptop with the AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX CPU, an RTX 5060 laptop GPU, 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD is now down by more than $500 vs list price at Best Buy US. The resulting price makes the Legion Pro 5 16 a good value.

Deal | The Last Campfire, an adventure game with a deeply thought-provoking narrative, is now on sale on Steam at its record-low price. Retailing for only $1.49, the game can be finished in two sittings and can be run on modest hardware.

Intel Arc B580 and Arc A770 have been tested with XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation. Using 4x MFG, the Intel Arc B580 and Arc A770 show strong performance gains, achieving over 200% better FPS in some games. Intel has also reportedly done a good job with managing latency through XeLL.

Deal | The powerful Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 Android gaming tablet has dropped below $350 on Lenovo's official store, thanks to some handy coupon codes. The tablet packs a flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, 12 GB of LPDDR5X memory, 256 GB of storage, and an 8.8-inch 2.5K display.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D reportedly outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to become the best gaming CPU money can buy. This also means that Intel's Core i9-14900K and the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K also don't stand a chance against the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. However, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D consumes a lot of power.

The DRAM shortage has also hit gaming consoles, raising concerns that the next-gen gaming consoles like the PS6 could be more expensive. Possibly to keep costs down, the Sony PlayStation 6 is rumored not to use the full RDNA 5 GPU architecture. Reliable leaker KeplerL2 mentions on NeoGaf forums that the PS6 GPU will pack some but not all RDNA 5 features.

The supply crunch affecting the RTX 5070 Ti has resulted in the price of the GPU rising by 25% in the US. The GPU now costs $1,000 on average. The RX 9070 XT, AMD's value-oriented answer to the RTX 5070 Ti, has also suffered a 21% price hike. The GPU now reportedly sits at $700 in North America.

A complete table showing the PL1, PL2, PL3, and PL4 power limits of Intel Nova Lake has leaked online. The figures leaked show a PL2 of close to 500 W for the dual-compute-tile high-end/flagship Nova Lake CPUs.

The latest Amazon US CPU sales data for January 2026 shows a concerning trend. Many consumers are not buying new CPUs, as CPU sales have seen an enormous 51% decline from January 2025 to January 2026. The relative position of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors has remained unchanged, as AMD CPUs remain at the top of the sales chart.