Intel reportedly no longer working on 6-core Nova Lake mobile SKU, alleges new rumor — Wildcat Lake Refresh to become focus for next-gen budget markets instead

Intel is still on schedule to at least announce Nova Lake at the end of the year, even if all rumors say the timelines have moved to next year. Apparently, the lowest-end 6-core Nova Lake mobile part targeted at budget mar…

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AMD is considering a potential Ryzen 5 9600X3D — company says six-core Zen 5 X3D chip ‘maybe something we look at doing… later this year’

AMD says that six-core X3D chips don’t make sense for a broad market for a number of reasons, but a six-core X3D chip with the Zen 5 architecture is something the company is considering.
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AMD ‘had to re-engineer’ the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for a re-release — 10th Anniversary Edition chip had ‘a whole body of engineering work’ put into it

AMD just reintroduced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, but it wasn’t as simple as spinning up the old manufacturing process, as the original bonding method TSMC used was no longer available.
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Intel Arc G3 interview transcript — Intel’s Senior Product Director talks new handheld chips, Arrow Lake Refresh, and RTX Spark

Intel’s Nish Neelalojanan spoke to us at Computex 2026 about Intel’s new G3 chip line, how it impacts the burgeoning handheld gaming market, and how Intel is responding to rising chip and memory prices the world over.
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Intel says ‘something has to give’ with memory prices — company says it ‘will continue to make sure that there are products which can take care of older memory technologies’

Intel sat down with Tom’s Hardware at Computex 2026, and the company says it recognizes the importance of Raptor Lake and DDR4 platforms as the memory crunch continues.
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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

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Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, Denuvo, and more to work natively with Windows on Arm

Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite is the only game that runs on Windows-on-Arm devi…

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Intel warns it has ‘a healthy dose of paranoia’ over Nvidia entrance into PC market — company says RTX Spark is ‘great for the market’ while touting the virtues of x86

Intel reacts to Nvidia’s RTX Spark announcement, and says that it’s treating the green giant’s entrance into consumer SoCs with “a healthy dose of skepticism.”
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Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman

Along with its first-generation RTX Spark platform for desktop and laptop PCs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company’s commitment to future generations of those platforms on its future roadmaps.
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Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth

Intel has officially confirmed its next-gen Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs are coming in 2027, featuring 50% higher core counts and twice the memory bandwidth of Xeon 6 in a bid to compete against AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice CP…

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