Forward-looking: Intel is preparing a fleet of motherboard chipsets for their 12th-gen Core Alder Lake processors. Falling under the 600-series nomenclature, they span from the entry-level to the high-end desktop (HEDT) tier, something that hasn’t happened since 2017. The list of 600-series chipsets was found inside Intel’s own drivers. It includes equivalents to the 500-series, namely a Z690,

In brief: According to TechPowerUp, the socket for AMD's next generation of CPUs will not support PCIe 5.0. This information reportedly came from the ransomware attack Gigabyte suffered earlier this month. Gigabyte's attackers threatened to leak a massive amount of data if it didn't pay up, including confidential documents from AMD.

TechPowerUp's sources familiar with the ransomware attack on Gigabyte provided them with a block diagram of the AM5 socket, showing its connections to other components. AM5 is the socket

What just happened? Samsung has replaced Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, thanks to a 19% increase in quarterly sales on the back of strong demand and rising prices in the DRAM and flash memory markets.

Like its long-running rivalry with Apple in the phone world—before Xiaomi dominate —Samsung is constantly fighting with Intel for the number one position in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

According to analyst firm IC Insights’ August update to the 2021 McClean Report, Samsung moved from second