Russia’s Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more
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Russia’s Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more

May 2, 2025
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Baikal Electronics, a Russian CPU developer, has managed to produce and sell 85,000 of its processors between its founding in 2012 and the end of 2024. Although the company has designed CPUs for all types of applications, the majority of 85,000 units were low-end Baikal-T for embedded applications that the

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Tests indicate Intel’s ‘200S Boost’ feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux
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Tests indicate Intel’s ‘200S Boost’ feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux

April 27, 2025
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As revealed by Phoronix, Intel’s new ‘200S Boost’ feature for its Arrow Lake chips results in little to no performance improvements on Linux. This parallels our 200S Boost testing in Windows, where memory overclocking from DDR5-6400 to DDR5-8000 accounted for most of the performance increases across gaming and productivity. In

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AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD’s top laptop CPUs
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AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD’s top laptop CPUs

April 10, 2025
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AMD has officially announced its Ryzen 8000HX Series of mobile CPUs today, intended for gaming and other high-end applications. Codenamed Dragon Range Refresh, the chips serve as a refresh of AMD’s Ryzen 7000HX family, AMD’s highest-performance laptop CPU line that has been in production since mid-2023. Coming in four unique

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