A great mid-range gaming CPU, theIntel Core i5-13600KF, has matched its lowest-ever price.At Woot,the CPU has fallen to $149.99, which, according to CamelCamelCamel and PCPartPicker, is as good as it gets through online retail. A strong mid-range gaming processor, the Intel Core i5-13600KF includes 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and supports 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and an extra four PCIe 4.0 lanes. Keep in mind this chip doesn’t have integrated graphics....

Intel is set todetail(PDF) the advantages of its 18A manufacturing technology (1.8nm-class) compared to its Intel 3 fabrication process at the upcoming VLSI Symposium 2025. As expected, the new production node will offer substantial benefits across power, performance, and area (PPA) metrics, thus providing tangible advantages both for client and data center products. Intel claims that its 18A fabrication process delivers 25% more performance at the same voltage (1.1V) and complexity, as well as 36% lower power at the same frequency and voltage of 1....

Third-partybenchmarksof Intel’s newCore Ultra 200V(Lunar Lake) CPUs are finally cropping up, giving us our first look at the processors' performance. Vietnamese tech review outletThinkViewon YouTube benchmarked the Core Ultra 7 268V against AMD’s competing Ryzen AI chips. The Lunar Lake chip was benchmarked in Cinebench R23 and 3DMark TimeSpy against theRyzen AI 9 HX 370andRyzen Z1 Extreme, AMD’s handheld gaming flagship. The Cinebench results were separated into single-core and multi-core results, with the multi-core results benchmarked at four different power targets: 15W, 20W, 28W, and 38W, to test each chip’s multi-core efficiency....

FinalWirehas added preliminary support for Intel’s Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids Xeon processors in the latest beta release of AIDA64—months or years before the CPUs hit shelves. This means that AIDA64 can now at least recognize these processors, though other functionality might be limited. Other updates include improved support on ASRock motherboards and a few bug fixes that led to incorrect specs being displayed for Intel’s Arrow Lake processors. For more context, AIDA64 and a handful of otherbenchmarkingsuites lay initial groundwork years before the product materializes....

Ever since Intel launched its ‘Intel Inside’ campaign in 1991, its brand identity has become inseparable not only from PCs that contained its processors but also from PCs and ICT at large. Much has changed in the last 30 years, however, and PCs and ICT themselves have become inseparable parts of today’s world. So at its Vision 2025 event in Las Vegas, Intelintroducedits new brand identity that connects Intel Inside to the roles that machines running Intel CPUs, as well as their owners, play in the world around us....

Intel is set to spin off its RealSense depth camera business by mid-2025, the company confirmed in an interview withThe Robot Report. The new venture will remain part of Intel’s Capital portfolio and maintain its existing product lineup, roadmap, and customer support. This decision is said to be a strategic move to enhance RealSense’s growth potential, not a reaction to Intel’s financial challenges, according to the report. “After 10 years of incubation, Intel is unleashing the potential of the Intel RealSense computer vision-AI portfolio in a standalone [Intel Capital] portfolio company by the first half of 2025,” Intel said, in a statement published by The Robot Report....

Times are already tough for Intel, but now it turns out its new, heavily-promoted AI PC chips aren’t selling as well as expected, thus creating a shortage of production capacity for its older chips. The news comes as theCEO announced looming layoffsand a poor financial report sent the company’s stock tumbling. Intel says its customers are buying less expensive previous-generation Raptor Lake chips instead of the new, and significantly more expensive, AI PC models like theLunar LakeandMeteor Lakechips for laptops....

Intel’s Core i5-14600T has been benchmarked in Geekbench 6 ahead of its arrival on store shelves, and its performance is very close to the regular Core i5-14600 (viaBenchLeaks). The 35-watt CPU is one of the18 Raptor Lake refresh CPUs Intel announcedearlier this week, with the Core i5-14600T being the third fastest chip in the low-power T-series. With six P-cores and eight E-cores, the Core i5-14600T is identical to the Core i5-14600 and theCore i5-14600Kin everything but clock speed....

For the past several years, we thought that Nvidia didn’t like any blower-style graphics cards in its GeForce gaming graphics card lineup. As a result, we were stunned to see an all-new PNYRTX 4070 Superblower-style graphics card on display atComputex 2024with Jensen Huang’s (of all people) hand-written signature on the card. It turns out that Nvidia does not completely dislike blower-style cards — rather, it depends on the card’s TDP....

Kioxia showed off its latest optical SSD technology atComputex 2025. According to the storage giant, this new solution offers several key advantages over conventional electrically connected SDDs. The most important benefit we saw was the ability to offer the same performance as a conventional SSD even if connected via optical cabling 30m long (or more). Kyocera was Kioxia’s partner in this demo, as the system used featured one of its Optinity PCIe cards....

Nvidia’s’Big Blackwell' gaming graphics processorcodenamed GB202 will use the same process technology as the recently announcedcompute-oriented GB200, according to well known hardware leaker@kopite7kimi. It is expected that the new production node will likely offer higher transistor density, so the GB202 will gain the number of execution units. GB202 will use the same process node as GB100. I must clarify once again that TSMC 4N(vidia) is based on TSMC 5, not 4nm....

Just days beforeComputex, the parent company of Maxsun has registered new Intel Arc B580 models with 24GB of VRAM with theEEC, viaOlrakat X, further stoking existing rumors of a high-VRAM Battlemage card. Remember that EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) submissions aren’t definitive confirmations of any product. Manufacturers often register placeholder configurations to cover all future possibilities, many of which never end up seeing the light of day. Therefore, you should treat this leak with a healthy dose of skepticism....

Engineers from MIT, including team leader Siddharth Krishnan, are paving the way when it comes to 3D printed medicine. The team recently created a chip with a 3D-printed component that can be embedded under the skin. This 3D-printed mechanism is able to release medicinal contents when the device is triggered by a wireless command. According to the newspublicationshared by MIT, there are potential use cases for this technology in quite a few areas of medicine....