I reviewed the X9-14 Aura Edition laptop – and it’s like Lenovo and Intel had a next-gen love child
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I reviewed the X9-14 Aura Edition laptop – and it’s like Lenovo and Intel had a next-gen love child

April 13, 2025
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Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition: 30-second review With Intel’s 200 series chips now widely available, a whole new generation

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Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture: Report
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Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture: Report

April 4, 2025
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Did the semiconductor manufacturing world just shrink a nanometer or two? Intel and TSMC have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to create a joint venture to operate Intel’s fabs in the U.S. The news comes from Reuters, which cites a report from The Information based on two sources familiar with

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Intel Arc B580 vs B570: Which Battlemage GPU is right for you?
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Intel Arc B580 vs B570: Which Battlemage GPU is right for you?

March 28, 2025
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Compute Units: 20Shaders: 2,560Ray processors: 20AI/Tensor processors: 160Boost clock: 2,670 MHzMemory type: GDDR6Memory pool: 12 GBMemory speed (effective): 19 GbpsMemory bandwidth: 456 GB/sBus interface: 192-bitTGP: 190WPower connector: 1 x 8-pinSlot width: Dual For Fantastic 1440p performance Very affordable Great design Against Ray tracing lags behind Nvidia Non-gaming performance cannot keep up with Nvidia Compute Units: 18Shaders: 2,304Ray processors: 18AI/Tensor processors: 144Boost clock: 2,304 MHzMemory type: GDDR6Memory pool: 10 GBMemory speed

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Qualcomm debuts new Snapdragon G handheld gaming PC chips to compete with Intel and AMD
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Qualcomm debuts new Snapdragon G handheld gaming PC chips to compete with Intel and AMD

March 18, 2025
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Qualcomm expanded its Snapdragon G series with three new gaming chips targeting handheld devices. The trio, consisting of the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2, will power the next generation of offerings from OEMs, including Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Retroid Pocket. The Snapdragon G3

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Intel reaches ‘exciting milestone’ for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab
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Intel reaches ‘exciting milestone’ for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab

March 14, 2025
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While the whole market was looking at the appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as Intel chief executive, there was another major development at the company this week. The first 18A (1.8nm-class) wafers are running around Intel’s Arizona fab. Intel’s Fab 52 and Fab 62 in Arizona are high-volume production facilities, so

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Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as permanent CEO
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Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as permanent CEO

March 13, 2025
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Intel late on Wednesday said it had appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new chief executive officer effective March 18, 2025. Lip-Bu Tan is a semiconductor industry veteran who served Intel’s board of directors from 2022 to August, 2024, when he left allegedly due to disagreements over the company’s strategic direction.

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AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
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AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024

February 5, 2025
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AMD on Tuesday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year. As expected, the company managed to post impressive results driven by its client and datacenter CPUs. Perhaps AMD’s biggest achievement in the quarter is that the company managed to outsell Intel in

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Intel receives 6 million payment from EU following antitrust fine reversal
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Intel receives $536 million payment from EU following antitrust fine reversal

February 4, 2025
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Intel has secured a $536 million (€515.55 million) payout from the European Commission following a lengthy legal battle over an antitrust fine dating back to 2009. This payment covers interest on the original $1.1 billion (€1.06 billion) penalty, which the EU’s second-highest court largely annulled in 2022. The case stemmed

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Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for AI workloads — Jaguar Shores to be successor
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Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for AI workloads — Jaguar Shores to be successor

January 31, 2025
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In a surprising twist, Intel announced on Thursday that its Falcon Shores GPU for AI and HPC applications will not be released to the market but will remain an internal test processor to develop the hardware and software foundations for its successor, codenamed Jaguar Shores. This decision makes Intel’s struggling Gaudi 3 processor, which

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