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The first benchmark results for Panther Lake's Xe3 iGPU have surfaced online, giving us our first look at the performance potential of the new 12-core integrated GPU. The leak comes from a Geekbench entry for the upcoming Core Ultra X7 358H CPU, one of the first chips confirmed to carry …

A year after the two long-standing rivals put their differences aside to form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG), Intel and AMD have just unveiled the first fruits of their collaboration. The companies are working on new hardware-level memory safety features and standardised instruction sets, creating a more uniform development …

KitGuru spent six days with Intel in Phoenix, Arizona learning about their ground-breaking 18A fabrication process which will be used in Panther Lake laptops. It is no secret that Intel has had a rotten few years and ended up having their processors made by arch-rival TSMC in Taiwan. 18A is of critical importance to Intel and could literally define the future of the company. On the other hand, if things go wrong, it could potentially be the end of the road for this American giant...

The roadmap for Intel's 2026 CPU families has become significantly clearer. In a new update to its official Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) reference manual, Intel has given us the first public confirmation of the core microarchitectures that will power its next generation “Nova Lake” client and “Diamond Rapids” server processors. …

In what could be one of the most significant shifts in the semiconductor industry in decades, a new report claims that Intel is in early-stage negotiations to manufacture chips for its biggest and longest-standing rival, AMD.  For years, AMD's resurgence has been built on the back of TSMC's cutting-edge process …

It looks like Intel may be preparing to add another layer to its mobile CPU branding with the upcoming launch of its Panther Lake architecture. A rumour that has been circulating for a couple of weeks has now been backed up by the reliable hardware leaker, suggesting that Intel will …

The Acer Swift Edge 14 has officially arrived on UK shores. The new laptop boasts Intel's latest Lunar Lake CPU technology, offering greater AI performance on the go, with optimisations in place for Microsoft CoPilot, the Windows AI assistant.  The Swift Edge 14 AI features up to an Intel Core …

Intel's next-generation “Battlemage” graphics card lineup might be about to change, as new evidence has surfaced for a higher-end GPU. A new data log entry appears to confirm the existence of a Battlemage GPU with a 16GB VRAM configuration. The finding comes from Tomasz Gawroński (via VideoCardz), who discovered a …

Last night, following the announcement of Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Intel, the CEOs of both companies sat down for a press conference. Here, we got answers to a few lingering questions about the deal, and a more detailed picture on what impact this will have on both Nvidia and Intel product offerings. 

Intel is about to go through another major change, as Nvidia has just bought up $5 billion worth of stock. With the investment in hand, Intel will also embark on a new joint-development effort with Nvidia to create multiple generations of custom datacenter and PC products.

Intel developers are already hard at work optimising the open-source Linux drivers for the company's next-generation “Panther Lake” mobile CPUs. A new series of changes has just been merged into the Mesa 3D graphics stack, designed to fix performance regressions and promising a significant performance uplift for the new Xe3 …

In one of the most unexpected product updates we've seen in a long time, Intel has quietly added a new processor to its official Ark database. But this isn't a new Arrow Lake Refresh or a sneak peek at Nova Lake. Here, we're talking about the new Core i5-110, a …

Intel has confirmed its desktop CPU plans for the near future at a recent Goldman Sachs Technology conference. As it appears, we're initially getting a minor refresh, followed by a major new architecture. A company executive stated that an update to its Arrow Lake CPU line will arrive next year, …

Intel's Application Optimisation (APO) technology has demonstrated the ability to deliver free performance gains in supported games by intelligently managing tasks across P-cores and E-cores. However, updates have been pretty slow, leaving the list of supported games relatively small. This week, Intel finally released an update, bringing APO support to …

In a presentation at IFA 2025 in Berlin, Acer has given us a glimpse into the future of thin-and-light laptops. The laptop manufacturer has revealed the new Swift 16 AI, the very first notebook to be powered by Intel's upcoming “Panther Lake” CPU architecture. The Acer Swift 16 AI is …

Following its announcement at Computex 2025, Intel has officially released the new Arc Pro B50. This is the first workstation card based on the “Battlemage” architecture, and it's aimed squarely at the compact, small-form-factor professional market, where power and size are key considerations. The Arc Pro B50 (via VideoCardz) is …

New details about Intel's next-generation desktop platform have just surfaced in a shipping manifest, giving us another glimpse at the upcoming “Nova Lake-S” architecture. The documentation mentions a 52-core CPU, likely the flagship of the series, as well as the 28-core variant that we previously reported on.  The NBD manifest …

The long-rumoured “Arrow Lake Refresh” for Intel's desktop platform has been a source of much debate, but a new leak may have finally shed some light on its official branding. A new processor, identified as the Core Ultra 7 365K, has recently appeared in the Geekbench database, suggesting that the …

Intel is exploring a new approach to boosting single-threaded performance, according to a newly published patent. The patent, EP4579444A1, describes a technology called “software defined super cores” (SDCs), which could allow a CPU to dynamically fuse multiple smaller physical cores to work together on a single thread, effectively creating a …

In recent years, shipping manifests have become an increasingly prominent source of new hardware leaks. Recently, Intel Arrow Lake and Nova Lake refresh CPUs were spotted being shipped, revealing the existence of a new 28-core Nova Lake-S CPU.  The first manifest shared by “X86 is dead&back” (via Videocardz) clearly shows …

Intel has taken the stage at the Hot Chips 2025 to lift the curtain on Clearwater Forest, its next-generation E-core Xeon processor and the successor to Sierra Forest. The new data center chip is an absolute monster, packing up to 288 cores per socket and serving as a showcase for …

Detailed new mobile CPU roadmaps, reportedly from an OEM partner, have given us a somewhat predictable look at AMD's and Intel's plans for the next couple of years. While the long-term future looks bright with the arrival of Zen 6, it appears that AMD's high-end gaming and enthusiast laptop segments …

The Battlefield 6 open beta was insanely popular, breaking multiple franchise records. Intel is being quick to capitalise on this hype with the announcement of its new hardware bundle, giving away free copies of Battlefield 6 with a range of CPUs and graphics cards.  Starting on this coming Monday, August …

Intel has just rolled out a new feature in its latest graphics driver (32.0.101.6989) for Core Ultra systems, giving users direct control over how much system memory their integrated Arc GPU can use. The new “Shared GPU Memory Override” feature allows you to increase the iGPU's VRAM pool, which could …

Intel's Application Optimisation (APO) technology, which offers game-specific performance boosts for its CPUs, is here to stay, but its future development may leave some users behind. In a Reddit discussion, a user claiming to be an Intel developer shed some light on the future of the software, confirming that support …

While Intel's focus for the remainder of this year is on the launch of its Panther Lake mobile platform, the first detailed specifications for its successor have already begun to surface. A new leak from the reliable tipster gives us a full breakdown of the planned configurations for the 2026 …

It looks like 512-bit AVX instructions are set to make a comeback on Intel's consumer desktop CPUs. The first concrete evidence has appeared in the latest release of Intel's oneDNN library, which adds early support for AVX10.2 with its full 512-bit width. This new feature explicitly targets “future Intel Core” …

Alongside the launch of its Arc Battlemage graphics cards, Intel introduced its own Frame Generation and Low Latency modes for XeSS. Today, with the release of XeSS 2.1 (and the respective SDK), Intel is making those features available to everyone, including gamers with AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce graphics cards. …

Just last week, rumours emerged over Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh, with some suggesting it would bring not only higher clock speeds but also an upgraded NPU to the desktop to improve local AI peformance. However, according to a new report, those plans have been scaled back, with the refresh …

The long-running instability saga surrounding Intel's 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs has taken another turn, with reports now emerging that the ongoing summer heatwaves in Europe are taking a toll on these processors. According to a Mozilla engineer, the recent heatwaves coincided with a spike in crash reports …