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Intel reportedly licenses Atom-class x86 cores to a startup led by Lip-Bu Tan's co-investor and incorporated in May.

One VCCGT phase can usually sustain up to 30W safely.

Today marks 20 years since the first raft of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, codename Conroe, was launched.

Premium The company named Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza in its launch release, extended its annual CPU, GPU, networking, and rack cadence out to 2030.

An FPGA and embedded systems expert has recreated the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) in an FPGA. It is demonstrated in a scale 3D printed model aircraft

Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.

A fresh leak suggests AMD is preparing an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 mobile processor with 96MB of L3 cache, potentially bringing the desktop Ryzen 7 9800X3D experience to gaming laptops.

Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 ‘Venice’ CPUs, as well.

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