Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, processor manufacturers raced to offer processors with ever-increasing clock speeds, which more or less equaled performance. Then, when clock speeds hit a wall at about 4 GHz due to a variety of factors, they took a ...

The new Intel Core i5-14490F processor features 10 cores and 16 threads, which is split into 6 P-Cores and 4 E-Cores, which uses different silicon compared to the Core i5-14400 processor, silicon that's most likely sourced from higher-end SKUs. Read more ...

It was all the way back in August of 2014 that Intel officially launched its Haswell-E based Core i7 series processors and its companion X99 chipset. At the time of its release, Haswell-E’s top of the line, 8-core Core i7-5960X was easily the most ...

Intel's new Core i9 CPU family and its X-Series of processors are both available for preorder today, with shipments expected on June 26. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window ...

TL;DR: Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 300 series "Arrow Lake Refresh" CPUs will feature higher clock speeds up to 6.0GHz, boosting gaming performance by 5-10%. While faster than current Zen 5 chips, they won't surpass AMD's Zen 5+ X3D processors in multi ...

Intel's 10th Generation desktop processors have launched. A Core i9 behemoth with 10 cores, 20 processing threads, and a maximum frequency of 5.3GHz leads the company's new lineup of mainstream CPUs. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years ...

Intel’s NUC computers are tiny desktop PCs that typically have laptop-class processors. But the thing about laptop processors is that some of them have gotten pretty good in recent years, offering desktop-class performance in some situations. For the ...