Intel lost its way. That much was obvious as it struggled to spin up its 10nm manufacturing process. This left the company scrambling — especially in the face of a refocused AMD. But Intel claims it ...

Intel has officially announced its new Core i9-12900KS processor, an unlocked version of its flagship Core i9-12900K that ups the maximum boosted clock speed even higher to 5.5GHz for what the company ...

Intel has unveiled the Core i9-12900KS "Special Edition" CPU claiming it's "the world's fastest desktop processor." Like the Core i9-12900K, it comes with 16-cores, including eight Performance cores ...

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Intel Raptor Lake is finally here, and although there’s a handful of CPUs in this first wave of 13th-generation CPUs, it’s hard not to focus on the flagship, the Intel Core i9-13900K. Equipped with a ...

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With as exciting as the CPU market has been the past few years, it’s easy to forget that we had a long run leading up to 2017 where it felt like true advancement in CPUs just wasn’t happening. AMD’s ...

The new fastest gaming processor in the world surprise dropped this morning, as Intel’s even-faster Core i9-12900KS surprisingly showed up on Newegg with no warning, fanfare, or (as far as we can tell ...

“AMD [is] in the rearview mirror […], and never again will they be in the windshield.” That’s what new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said recently about his new Alder Lake chips in relation to the ...

The Core i9 12900K is an enthusiast processor built for boasting. It offers the highest gaming frame rates in most titles and its clever new architecture and cutting-edge features provide ...