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Intel reportedly says it boosted yields by selling what would normally be ‘scrap’ or ‘low-expectation’ CPUs

Written on April 27, 2026.

Following the release of its latest earnings report, which revealed an unexpected uptick in profit margins, Intel has reportedly confirmed that the lift at least partially stemmed from selling would-be scrap chips for a profit.

AMD reveals $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — first dual-cache X3D CPU is $200 more expensive than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Written on April 8, 2026.

Following retailer listings popping up over the weekend, AMD has made the price of its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official. The CPU has a suggested retail price of $899, AMD's David McAfee announced today on X.

Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 for Nvidia Vera Rubin – 2.3x bandwidth improvement and 20% boost in power efficiency

Written on March 17, 2026.

Micron has announced that it has entered high-volume production of its HBM4 36GB 12-Hi memory, designed for Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform.

Apple’s 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling

Written on March 7, 2026.

Apple's desktop and notebook processors traditionally lead the pack in single-thread workloads, as industry-leading single-thread performance has been the company's focus for a long time.

Intel mobile CPUs have achieved up to 95x performance uplift over the past two decades

Written on February 28, 2026.

Intel has consistently pushed the boundaries of processor technology and has delivered some of the best CPUs we've ever seen. That level of success doesn't happen overnight. Leading Linux publication Phoronix tested 15 mobile Intel processors over 18 years to show the evolution of processor performance from the Penryn architecture to the cutting-edge Panther Lake.

30% of x86 CPUs sold are now made by AMD, as company’s market share grows thanks to a flagging Intel

Written on February 12, 2026.

AMD ended 2025 with fanfare as it managed to increase its market shares across all major CPU product segments, according to Mercury Research, and achieved a 29.2% share of all x86 processors shipped in the fourth quarter, which is an all-time record for the company.

Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026

Written on January 19, 2026.

The tech press has been lit up like Chernobyl reactor #4 for months about shortages in memory, solid-state drives, and hard drives. The shortages are driven by explosive AI demand, and the latest report says that up to 70 percent of the memory produced worldwide in 2026 will be consumed by data centers. However, those specific topics have yet to be part of the global zeitgeist.

Intel showed up for consumers at the ‘Consumer Electronics Show;’ AMD didn’t

Written on January 9, 2026.

CES may have started out as the Consumer Electronics Show, but it has never been solely about consumers. That was true before the AI boom, and it’s even more true today. Jaded tech journalists who’ve prowled the halls for a decade (and usually more) don’t want to hear the AI talk, but the topic is so pervasive at the event that even hopeful skeptics can turn to cynicism.

Old Ryzen AM4 CPUs top US, UK Amazon charts as DDR5 pricing pushes buyers to last-gen platform

Written on December 27, 2025.

The AMD Ryzen 5 5800X — launched on November 5, 2020 — recently hit the top spot in Amazon UK’s list of best-selling CPUs. The refreshed 5800XT, which arrived in July last year, is likewise in the top ten most popular processors in Amazon US, with the chip sitting in fourth place.

Framework raises DDR5 RAM upgrade prices by 50% amid DRAM shortage — only for Laptop DIY edition, says prices will likely rise again

Written on December 12, 2025.

The computer manufacturer Framework has announced price increases of up to 50% for DDR5 memory upgrades on the company's Framework Laptop DIY Edition—the price adjustment results from the ongoing memory shortage