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PC makers like Chuwi and Intel's Project Firefly initiative are beginning to offer affordable laptops targeting the MacBook Neo's price point, but questions remain about quality and availability.
A recent benchmark of the famously slow Intel iAPX432 processor reveals that its performance may have been unfairly maligned, as hand-written code outperformed an 8086, suggesting poor compiler optimization was the culprit.
An in-depth evaluation of the new SPEC CPU2026 benchmark suite, which replaces SPEC CPU2017 with 52 workloads and a slower reference system (Ampere eMAG 8180), showing performance comparisons between modern CPUs.
A comprehensive guide to buying a laptop in 2026, covering use cases, budget, operating systems, processors, graphics, RAM, storage, screens, ports, and more. Updated with the latest chip news from Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm.
Leaked PCB images reveal Intel's upcoming Crescent Island AI accelerator, featuring a large Xe3P GPU and 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory, designed as a cost-effective alternative to HBM-based solutions for AI inference.
Microsoft launches Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 for businesses with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, offering higher RAM options and 5G connectivity, but at significantly increased prices.
Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus desktop CPU, touted as one of its fastest gaming processors, is available at an all-time low price of $279.99 on Amazon, about $45 off the normal price.
Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary deal for Intel to manufacture chips for Apple, marking a significant partnership in the semiconductor industry.
Intel’s LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 adds official support for the Arc Pro B70 GPU, enabling Docker-based large-model inference on Battlemage hardware.
A detailed reverse-engineering analysis of how the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor decodes instructions, explaining the interplay between the main CPU and coprocessor, the use of microcode ROM, and the bus interface unit.
After two Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs failed within months, the author switches to an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D, citing widespread stability issues with Intel's current CPUs.
A detailed blog post about building a high-end Linux PC in 2025, including component selection, setup, and troubleshooting a faulty Intel CPU.
A detailed reverse-engineering analysis of the Intel 386 processor's register circuitry, revealing six different custom circuits and interleaved bit storage.
A detailed report on stability issues with Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU on ASUS Z890 motherboard, including crashes and debugging steps, warning potential buyers.
The article breaks down memory bandwidth as the critical metric for local AI hardware performance, comparing current GPUs and unified memory systems from NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Intel, and others across different performance tiers.