Intel

Gigabyte motherboard leak confirms Z890 chipset and Core Ultra naming for next-gen CPUs

Gigabyte confirms Z890 and Core Ultra update

Leak featuring Intel’s next-gen motherboard confirms the chipset name.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 announcement may slip to 2025

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NVIDIA RTX 50 in 2025

Kopite7kimi shares disappointing prediction.

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Minisforum MS-A1 launched: affordable AMD AM5 Mini-PC with Ryzen 9000 support for $259

First Mini-PC to officially support Ryzen 9000

Minisforum updated their popular design to feature a desktop AM5 socket.

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Intel

NVIDIA B20 is reportedly a new Blackwell AI chip for China, launching later this year

NVIDIA B20, China-only Blackwell GPU

NVIDIA is working on a special purpose accelerator that meets U.S. Export restrictions.

NVIDIA’s revenue from China accounts for about 17%, which provides a strong motivator for the company to develop a custom chip for this market. According to a Reuters report, NVIDIA is now planning a successor to the H20 chip, which was launched last year.

The H20 chip had similar memory specifications and the same die size as its predecessor,


Intel

AMD “Bald Eagle Point” rumored to be a minor Phoenix refresh, which may never be released

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Bald Eagle Point with Zen5(c) and RDNA3.5

AMD has an alternative in case the main roadmap meets obstacles.

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Intel

Intel “Sapphire Rapids-Refresh” pictured, Xeon W9-3575X and W7-2595X tested ahead of launch

Intel Sapphire Rapids Refresh isn’t even out yet, but it’s already taking part in an overclocking competition

There are some first-ever benchmarks featuring Intel upcoming HEDT platform already available on Chinese social platform.

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Leaker reveals new AMD RDNA4 Ray Tracing features, expected in upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro

AMD RDNA4 ray tracing features listed

Kepler_L2 shows what changes RDNA4’s GPU architecture will bring for ray tracing.

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Socketed CPU laptops and high-end MXM graphics are fading into history

There’s no more room for high-end upgradable laptops

Notebookcheck published an interesting editorial on a laptop feature that has almost completely disappeared from the market: the option to upgrade a CPU. A decade ago, it was common to upgrade laptop CPUs, and I even had the opportunity to upgrade two of my old laptops. However, with modern designs, upgrading CPUs is now nearly impossible.

The editorial highlights that the last bastion of socketed CPUs in laptops has fallen. Only one company, Eurocom, continued to offer

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AMD Radeon 880M RDNA3.5 iGPU appears in Geekbench OpenCL test matching 780M score

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with Radeon 880M tested in Geekbench

Performance was lower than expected.

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Intel

Intel introduces 14th Gen Core SKUs without E-Cores: 125W Core i9-14901KE features 8 P-Cores, 16 threads

Core 14×001 SKUs: Up to 8 Performance cores, no Efficient cores at all

Intel has quietly introduced a new series of processors.

Recently, we covered a leak of Intel’s future plans for the LGA-1700 socket, which involved a product named “Bartlett Lake-S”. This product is expected to feature both the Alder Lake/Raptor Lake hybrid die with P-Cores and E-Cores, as well as a brand-new die featuring P-Cores

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