Intel confirms rumored Core Ultra 9 290K Plus has been scrapped — potential Core Ultra 9 285KS Special Edition also off the table as Arrow Lake refresh rolls out

Intel has confirmed it has scrapped the Core Ultra 9 295K Plus, and will not be releasing a Special Edition “KS” part for its Core Ultra 200S series lineup.
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AMD makes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official — first dual-cache X3D CPU arrives in April, with 208MB cache, 200W TDP, promising modest performance gains

The new flagship packs a total of 208MB cache, helping deliver modest gains in gaming, rendering, and content creation.
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Where to buy Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — grab these impressive Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs from these retailers, starting from $219

Two of Intel’s latest CPUs, the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, are now available to buy.
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Intel’s upcoming ‘Wildcat Lake’ low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — ‘Core 3 304’ is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

Wildcat Lake is the successor to Twin Lake, which itself was a refresh of Alder Lake-N. These are ultra-budget CPUs aimed at embedded devices, cheap laptops, mini-PCs, NAS devices, and more, where efficiency is key. The Co…

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Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1B crypto-GPU income within its gaming revenues — investor lawsuit concerns business spanning 2017 and 2018

Nvidia is back in court over whether a significant chunk of its revenue through 2017 and 2018 was reliant on the whims of the cryptocurrency market.
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Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explained — how the iBOT translation delivers up to 18% faster gaming performance, 8% on average

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs come with a unique feature: Binary Optimization Tool. We’ve put it to the test in 10 games with the 250K Plus and 270K Plus, and came out with an 8% uplift on average.
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Save big on Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh with almost $300 off on this 3-item bundle — new Core Ultra 270K Plus processor, MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi motherboard, and 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 RAM for $899.99

Buy a powerful Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus bundle with a MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi and 32GB of RAM for $899.99 – get pre AI-apocolypse RAM pricing on this awesome launch day Newegg bundle
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Corsair’s discounted 32GB Vengeance is the cheapest DDR5 on the market by a big margin — $300 sale price is $60 less than next best option

You can grab 32GB of DDR5-6200 Corsair Vengeance RAM for $300.99 right now. That’s a $130 discount on its (current) list price, a serious saving in a market that the AI boom has left in ruin.
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Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking performance from new Core Ultra 200S Plus chips — says Intel’s IPC boosting Binary Optimization Tool modifies scores in ‘unclear’ fashion

The team behind Geekbench 6 has warned users about benchmarking inconsistency with Intel’s latest iBOT tool found in the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus. Geekbench 6 can’t identify when iBOT is enabled or …

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Micron’s $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastructure the latest AI buildout bottleneck

Micron’s planned $24 billion NAND flash expansion in Singapore will require 400 to 500 power transformers, which is more than double the 100 to 150 units a standard wafer fab typically needs.
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