Leaked List of Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake-H” Processors

Leaked List of Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake-H” Processors

This morning’s Geekbench entry revealed an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU (as tested in an HP Spectre x360 2-in-1 laptop), which was then followed by many more allegedly mobile “Meteor Lake” SKUs provided by Golden Pig Upgrade’s Bilibili account. Along with the addition of the more expensive Core Ultra...

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Geekbench & CPU-Z Tests of the Intel Core i9-14900K

Geekbench & CPU-Z Tests of the Intel Core i9-14900K

The results of a recent CPU-Z test on a purported Intel Core i9-14900K engineering sample CPU, which were released earlier this week by wnxod, were 978 points for single-core performance and 18117.5 points for multi-core performance. With improvements of 19.4% SC/59% MC over the i9-12900K (Alder Lake) and 9.7% SC/8.4%...

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Ready for Intel Raptor Lake Refresh SKUs with HWMonitor v1.52

Ready for Intel Raptor Lake Refresh SKUs with HWMonitor v1.52

The HWMonitor software program’s most recent version (1.52) is ready in advance for a wide range of upcoming PC hardware items, most notably Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors. The Core i5-14600K/KF (14 cores), i7-14700K/KF (20 cores), and i9-14900K/KF (24 cores) CPUs are among the exact SKUs mentioned in the...

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CPUs from the retailer-listed Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh K-Series

CPUs from the retailer-listed Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh K-Series

This week has seen more Intel 14th Gen Core CPU series leaks than usual. MSI let a livestream NDA go a few days ago, and now, as reported by the ever-vigilant momomo_us, a Ukrainian retailer has listed six Raptor Lake-S Refresh SKUs on its online store. It appears that the...

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Smugglers carrying 780 Intel CPUs Worth More Than $137,000 are discovered

Smugglers carrying 780 Intel CPUs Worth More Than $137,000 are discovered

Chinese customs recently stopped 780 Intel CPUs that smugglers were trying to bring in at Gongbei Port, which connects Macau and Zhuhai. Chinese smugglers are renowned for using creative strategies to get around customs. These smugglers try to avoid paying customs in a variety of ways, one of which is...

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Arc A380 from Intel is clocked up after a driver update

Arc A380 from Intel is clocked up after a driver update

Intel Graphics came up with a novel strategy to boost the performance of their budget Arc A380 graphics cards. Intel has provided the A380 with a free vendor overclock whereas other companies block BIOS updates and generally oppose overclocking. Intel has raised the GPU’s basic frequency with the newest Arc...

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Intel lists testing interposers for Battlemage, Arrow Lake-HX, and Lunar Lake-M

Intel lists testing interposers for Battlemage, Arrow Lake-HX, and Lunar Lake-M

Interposers are devices used to test forthcoming chips prior to their actual product integration, according to a new update on Intel’s website. A special webpage now displays parts utilized by various tools, particularly the “Gen5 VR,” which in this context refers for CPU Voltage Regulator. The update’s centerpiece discloses at...

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There will be 3 MB of L2 cache on each performance core in Intel Arrow Lake-S.

There will be 3 MB of L2 cache on each performance core in Intel Arrow Lake-S.

Intel’s next designs are almost ready to be released, and we are already learning more about them. As of right now, we know that each performance core in Intel’s desktop/client versions of the Arrow Lake family will have access to up to 3 MB of level two (L2) cache. The...

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Intel CPU vulnerability known as “Downfall” can reduce performance by 50%

Intel CPU vulnerability known as “Downfall” can reduce performance by 50%

Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), a security flaw recently disclosed by Intel, affects several generations of Intel processors. The weakness is related to Intel’s memory optimization feature and takes advantage of the Gather instruction, which speeds up data retrieval from dispersed memory locations. By accident making internal hardware registers visible, it gives malicious...

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Pricing for the Intel Arc A750 Drops to a New Low of $180

Pricing for the Intel Arc A750 Drops to a New Low of $180

A powerful DirectX 12 Ultimate-capable 1080p gaming graphics card, the Intel Arc A750 has consistently been demonstrated by its designers to be on par with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 in terms of performance, with each new driver release addressing performance issues unique to individual games. On Newegg, an ASRock...

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