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Intel in 2024: year in review
By Darren Allan published
The kind of year Intel had was debatable – was it disastrous, or just plain bad? To be fair, there were victories for Team Blue this year, as well.
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Can Qualcomm compete with AMD and Intel in the desktop CPU space in 2025?
By Sarah Chaney published
Qualcomm made a splash in the laptop market in 2024 with its Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips. Can it do the same for desktops in 2025?
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Got an Intel Core Ultra 200S CPU? These are the patches you need to help gaming performance – with one more update coming in January 2025
By Darren Allan published
Intel's had a bit of a nightmare with Arrow Lake, but has been commendably transparent in putting things right.
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Intel and AMD may have another desktop competitor - Qualcomm is supposedly working on a new Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 desktop CPU
By Isaiah Williams published
It might be time for a new addition to the PC hardware arena, with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite 2nd Gen chips reportedly heading to desktop PCs.
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AMD Strix Halo leak suggests chips are imminent, but gives me a couple of reasons to worry about the flagship laptop CPU
By Darren Allan published
Strix Halo flagship appears in leaked benchmark, but it stokes concerns that the chip may not be for gaming notebooks.
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Is Intel about to turn Arrow Lake CPUs around? Leak suggests ‘big changes’ are coming for Core Ultra 200 chips
By Darren Allan published
Rumored changes could pep up Intel’s ailing Core Ultra 200 range – but we’ve got a feeling AMD won’t be overly worried (yet).
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AMD’s Ryzen chips appear to be wiping the floor with Intel – but the best-selling CPUs right now might surprise you
By Darren Allan published
AMD is routing Intel in the battle of the CPUs going by the bestsellers for major retailers – but Ryzen 9000 isn’t winning this war.
![An AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D in a masculine hand](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/W7pE7vgtLX6wQ7TE4vkLs5-320-80.jpg)
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is hot stuff - literally, as one has just burnt out a motherboard
By Isaiah Williams published
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9800X3D has surmounted its predecessor, receiving heaps of high praise for its gaming performance, but a new user’s report suggests issues of burning out could occur once again.
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