Intel Core Ultra 200V specs leak points to nine Lunar Lake SKUs and a single Ultra 9 variant

Intel’sannouncements at Computex 2024focused heavily on the Core Ultra 200V series, codenamed Lunar Lake. Arecent leak suggeststhat Intel will release Lunar Lake in nine variants, including Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5 SKUs. There will also be a single Core Ultra 9 variant, according to the leak source. The new mobile processor is expected to ship sometime in September 2024, but details of the exact specifications have been hard to nail down....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 431 words · Angela Kerr

Intel engineer's Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable

ALinux patchsuggests that Intel engineers plan to implement a feature that tags your system as vulnerable if you’re running outdated microcodes, (viaPhoronix). This comes in light of the recent Intel 13th Generation and 14th Generation degradation fiasco, which is now pushing Team Blue towards aclass action lawsuit. The patch argues that you cannot run a system with old microcode and consider it safe. Microcode is basically a set of instructions in the CPU that can be updated post-launch to fix critical flaws andsecurityvulnerabilities....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Dustin Ortega

Intel ex-CEO Gelsinger and current co-CEO slapped with lawsuit over Intel Foundry disclosures — plaintiffs demand Gelsinger surrender salary earned

LR Trust, an Intel shareholder, has filed alawsuitrelated to the performance of Intel Foundry and against former and current executives as well as directors of the company (as discovered byThe Register). The lawsuit accuses Pat Gelsinger, the former chief executive of Intel, and David Zinsner, aninterim co-CEO and CFO of Intel, of mismanagement, misleading disclosures, and demanding the return of their compensations and other gains to the company. Among the listed demands, the plaintiffs seek the entire sum of Gelsinger’s $207 million salary earned during his tenure in 2021, 2022, and 2023, which would then be paid back to Intel....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Gina Craig

Intel needs $2 Billion for New Ireland fab — courting three venture capital firms for continued expansion

According to aBloomberg report, Apollo Global Management, KKR & Co., and Stonepeak are considering a joint venture to fund Intel’s semiconductor production operations in Ireland. If the parties agree, the asset management firms will establish a joint venture, invest money in Intel’s fab near Leixlip, Ireland, and own a stake in that facility. In February, it was reported thatIntel sought $2 billionto fund its chip production operations in Leixlip, Ireland. According to the report, Intel has appointed an advisor to attract potential investors for this project....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Jared Booth

Intel posts flat year-over-year earnings and bleak outlook, warns about macroeconomic pressures

Intel on Thursdaypostedits financial results for the first quarter of 2025. The company’s earnings were flat year-over-year; however, its losses deepened, and its gross margin declined despite lower operating expenses. While sales of the company’s data center grade products demonstrated signs of growth, sales of client CPUs declined compared to the same quarter a year ago. Perhaps more importantly, Intel gave a bleak outlook for the second quarter due to macro challenges....

July 19, 2025 · 4 min · 801 words · Timothy Padilla

Intel quietly slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340

In an unexpected move, Intel quietly cut the prices of its latest Xeon 6 ‘Granite Rapids’ processors approximately four months after their formalintroductionin late September. The price slash is quite dramatic as the flagship model now costs $12,460, or $5,340 less than at launch. As a result, Intel’s Xeon 6 CPUs are now cheaper than AMD’s latest EPYC ‘Genoa’ processors both in absolute numbers and in terms of per-core pricing....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 578 words · William Harris

Intel releases NPU drivers with Arrow Lake support — AI PC users will have yet another component that may require regular updates

If you own an “AI PC” from Intel or AMD, that means you have an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU) alongside your typical CPU cores and graphics. And if you weren’t aware, it seems — at least for Intel NPUs — you’ll have yet another driver to potentially update on a regular basis. Even if you don’t bother with Windows' AI PC features, thesedriver updatesincludesecurityfixes alongside fixing issues or adding features, so it’s probably a good idea to be diligent with these updates....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 516 words · Laura Martinez

Intel to lay off more than 15% of workforce — 15,000 or more employees — encountered Meteor Lake yield issues, suspends dividend

Intel plans to lay off more than 15% of its workforce by the end of the year, the company announced today, meaning roughly 15,000 employees or more (potentially up to 17,475 based on recent Intel headcount numbers of 116,500) — a vast restructuring that comes amid troubling financial results this quarter. The layoffs rank among the most severe in Intel’s 56-year history. The news came during an earnings call for the semiconductor giant, which also announced that it has encountered yield issues with its Meteor Lake processors, problems that negatively impacted the bottom line....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 591 words · Jacob Malone

Kioxia aims to mass produce 1000-layer 3D NAND by 2031 — quadruple the current number of layers

Kioxia plans to mass produce 3D NAND memory with over 1,000 layers by 2031, according to the company’s chief technology officer (CTO), Hidefumi Miyajima, reportsXtech Nikkei. During his lecture at the 71st Applied Physics Society Spring Meeting at Tokyo City University, Miyajima discussed the technical challenges and solutions for achieving over 1000 layers in a 3D NAND device. Increasing the number of active layers in a 3D NAND device is the best way to boost the recording density of flash memory nowadays, so all 3D NAND makers strive to do this with new process nodes every 1....

July 19, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Natasha Lopez

Liquid-cooled RTX 4090 Suprim Fuzion Frankencard crams tubes and radiator into its monstrous 4.5-slot form factor

MSI is known for its high-performance air-cooled graphics cards and its cool-running liquid-cooled graphics cards sporting All-In-One solutions. Now it’s looking to combine the two with its all-new RTX 4090 Suprim Fuzion, which features a liquid-cooled cooling solution without an external radiator (as reported byAllround-PC). The Frankencard eliminates the tubing and external radiator from the typical liquid-cooled GPU approach, making for a massive 4.5-slot solution.The RTX 4090 Suprim Fuzion comes with an integrated radiator that’s housed underneath the card’s massive shroud....

July 19, 2025 · 4 min · 659 words · Christopher Wilson

Logitech prices are increasing by as much as 25%, and they're not alone

We knew it was only a matter of time before prices started creeping up in more obvious ways. The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have caused rippling effects across many industries, and PC hardware is no exception. Today, we’re looking at evidence of price increases related to several Logitech products in particular. This observation has come to light thanks to YouTuber Cameron Dougherty from the channelCameron Dougherty Tech. In his recent video, Dougherty reports several notable price increases that have reached as high as 25%....

July 19, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Claudia Griffin

Low Disk Space but Nothing to Delete—What to Do?

Sometimes, your drives may be nearly full, but you don’t see much content inside the drives to warrant such high disk space usage. It is also possible you may only have system files on the C drive, but your computer is running on low disk space. In the first scenario, it’s the hidden files and folders that are taking up the unexpected space. So, you need to look out for those and delete them permanently....

July 19, 2025 · 4 min · 805 words · Mary Johnson

MEG X870E Godlike spearheads MSI's X870 army — included expansion card harnesses the performance of two PCIe 5.0 SSDs

MSI has officially unveiled its initial lineup ofnext-generation X870E and X870 motherboardsaimed at AMD’s all-new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs (while maintaining compatibility with Ryzen 7000 chips). The motherboard maker showcased four new boards: the X870E Godlike, X870E Carbon WiFi, X870 Tomahawk WiFi, and the Pro X870-P WiFi. The MEG X870E Godlike is the flagship motherboard for MSI’s new lineup of 800-series AMD motherboards. The Godlike comes fully clothed with motherboard covers and MEG-themed graphics from head to toe....

July 19, 2025 · 5 min · 853 words · Charles Alvarez MD