Qualcomm's fastest Snapdragon PC chip apparently crushes Intel's best

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme has surfaced in early Geekbench tests, posting stronger scores than Intel’s Panther ...

Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved ...

The dire state of desktop PCs: ‘If you want performance, you have to pay for it’

AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all have rather anemic desktop processor roadmaps in place for 2026. Combine that with the horrific ...

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 CPU wallops the x86 competition by 30% in single-core Geekbench grunt

How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.
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Thermometer smaller than ant’s antenna detects computer chip’s temperature in seconds

Researchers at Penn State in the US have developed a microscopic, 2D-material-based thermometer designed ...
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I Tested Intel's Flagship 'Panther Lake' Laptop Chip: The Graphics Are the Real Upgrade

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.

New analysis claims the CPU core in Nvidia's upcoming N1X PC processor is a performance beast

X86 emulation is the big unanswered question.

iMacs with bigger screen and faster chips aren’t yet dead at Apple

Apple is internally testing larger iMac models with faster chips as it considers expanding premium product tiers and evolving its desktop lineup.

Scientists Uncover “Mouse Bite” Defects Inside Computer Chips

A stunning new imaging breakthrough lets scientists see — and fix — the atomic flaws hiding inside tomorrow’s computer chips.