Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips By Paul Alcorn published 1 April 25 Five nodes in four years is nearly accomplished.
The week in chip news: Nvidia's GTC 2025 blitz, new NVMe HDDs and watercooled SSD, Intel's restructuring begins By Paul Alcorn published 23 March 25 We cover the biggest news from Nvidia's annual GTC event, along with the latest news from the Intel shakeup and a slew of new storage devices tailored for AI.
The week in chip news: Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates By Paul Alcorn published 15 March 25 We cover the biggest stories of the week.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review: Stunning gaming performance meets top-tier productivity By Paul Alcorn last updated 12 March 25 Editor's Choice We put AMD's flagship $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D through our full gamut of benchmarks, finding that it is among the fastest CPUs for gaming and productivity on the market.
Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips By Paul Alcorn published 18 January 25 We tested Intel's fix for its lackluster 'Arrow Lake' Core Ultra 200S and found it doesn't have any meaningful impact.
AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages By Paul Alcorn published 9 January 25 Team Blue in the rearview.
AMD's first RDNA 4 GPU die pictured: Navi 48 around 390 mm2, targeting mainstream gamers By Anton Shilov published 8 January 25 AMD's higher-end Navi 48 is smaller than both Navi 21 and Navi 31.
Nvidia's powerful RTX 5090 PCB is amazingly small yet pumps 575W of power By Anton Shilov published 7 January 25 Nvidia completely redesigns PCB of GeForce RTX 5090 Foundry Edition graphics card as its power consumption nears 600W.
Here's all the silicon AMD launched at CES 2025 - family die photos of Strix Halo, Krackan Point, Ryzen 9000X3D, Fire Range, and Hawk Point Refresh By Hassam Nasir published 7 January 25 AMD has shared a few snippets of all processors that it launched at CES.
Intel shows off working Panther Lake systems at CES — Xe3 GPU cores power Intel sneak peek By Sunny Grimm published 7 January 25 Intel's press demos at CES 2025 include three ODM laptops and two mini dev kits for Panther Lake, powered by Xe3 Celestial GPU architecture.
AMD explains the missing RDNA 4 GPUs in its CES 2025 livestream By Paul Alcorn published 7 January 25 We met with AMD executives David McAfee and Frank Azor to discover why the company's hotly-anticipated RDNA 4 GPUs were missing from its CES 2025 livestream.
AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25 AMD announced its Ryzen 9000HX series of laptop chips here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, including its flagship model that it bills as the world’s best mobile processor for gaming and content creation.
AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops By Hassam Nasir published 6 January 25 Ryzen AI spreads its wings.
AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25 AMD lands another blow on Intel’s troubled Arrow Lake.
AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25 Disruption is a daily thing.
Qualcomm teases mini desktop PC, announces 8-core Snapdragon X chip to bring Arm-powered Windows CoPilot+ laptops down to ~$600 By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25 Broader product range foments broader adoption.
Intel launches Arrow Lake mobile family with Core Ultra 200HX and 200H processors for gaming laptops By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25 Shooting Arrows into the mobile market.
Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end By Paul Alcorn published 19 December 24 Intel has confirmed to 3DTested that it is no longer working on the x86S specification.
Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month By Paul Alcorn published 18 December 24 Intel says it has root-caused the problems plaguing its Arrow Lake processors and that performance-boosting updates are now available.
Intel looks beyond silicon, outlines breakthroughs in atomically-thin 2D transistors, chip packaging, and interconnects at IEDM 2024 By Paul Alcorn published 7 December 24 Smaller, faster, better.
Best Cyber Monday Computer Hardware Deals You Can Still Get By Avram Piltch, Matt Safford, Paul Alcorn, Ash Hill, Brandon Hill, Sarah Jacobsson Purewal last updated 3 December 24 The best deals on laptops, desktops, CPUs, SSDs and other key PC parts and systems.
Western Digital Red Pro 20TB hard drive is an all-time low $319 for Cyber Monday — a mere $16 per TB By Paul Alcorn last updated 2 December 24 You can score a 20TB WD Red Pro NAS hard drive for only $319, an all-time low for this drive.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires, effective immediately — two co-CEOs step in By Paul Alcorn published 2 December 24 Intel announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger will retire and has stepped down from the board of directors, effective immediately.
AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on Top500 list By Paul Alcorn published 18 November 24 AMDomination.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Review: Devastating Gaming Performance By Paul Alcorn published 6 November 24 Editor's Choice AMD's 3D V-Cache forges the unquestioned gaming champ.
