Intel has officially released the so-called Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs for the LGA 1851 desktop socket. This platform won’t receive a new generation like laptops did in the 1.8 nm Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake CPUs. Instead, new models of the 3 nm Arrow Lake generationare coming. And although they do not have a new architecture, they should be very interesting when it comes to the bang-for-buck ratio. Read more “Arrow Lake Refresh Intel desktop CPUs launched: SKUs and pricing”
In January, Nvidia announced DLSS 4.5—a new version of AI upscaling for games with a new AI model and improved frame generation. This can insert up to five artificial frames between two real frames rendered by the game (meaning a sixfold increase of displayed frames). However, the more interesting part may be the addition of a dynamic mode that allows the number of generated frames to be switched on the fly. Read more “Dynamic frame generation in DLSS 4.5 to launch in three weeks”
Originally, Intel was expected to launch the Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake) desktop CPU refresh right at the beginning of the year in January. That did not happen, but Intel is still preparing these new models for its lineup, and they should reach stores very soon. The dates when customers can expect them have now leaked. Earlier reports indicated March or April, but Intel will apparently manage to launch them within the first quarter after all. Read more “Intel to unveil new Core Ultra 200 desktop processors next week”
In December, AMD unveiled the Redstone technology package, which builds on the AI-based FSR4 upscaling introduced with the Radeon RX 9000 series. Redstone added AI-based frame generation, Neural Radiance Caching, and Ray Regeneration. The upscaling component itself, however, was not updated to a new version. It seems that’s changing now with the FSR 4.1 update, which will apparently arrive in one of the upcoming driver releases. Read more “AMD FSR 4.1 incoming with improved image quality, leak suggests”
Since 2021 Intel has been using a hybrid CPU architecture with big and little cores (starting with 12th-gen Core CPUs, though it had already been tried a year and a half earlier in the Lakefield SoC). However, the little “E-Cores” derived from former Atom SoC are quite unpopular among some. Now, a radical change is emerging on the horizon—instead of maintaining two completely different core architectures, Intel is moving to a single one. Read more “Unified Core: Breakthrough Change Is Coming To Intel CPUs”
We’ve previously covered Bartlett Lake, a remarkable CPU generation from Intel that resembles something of a parallel Plan B product. While Arrow Lake is being sold for the desktop LGA 1954 socket, Bartlett Lake continues to use LGA 1700, is manufactured on a 7nm process, and supports DDR4 memory. Most notably, it drops E-Cores entirely and consists solely of “big” cores. We’ve now learned the complete specs of these chips. Read more “Bartlett Lake, Intel’s P-Core Only CPUs: Models and Specs”
Recently, we’ve covered upcoming Intel products a lot, but here’s something for the fans of AMD looking forward to its next-generation Zen 6 architecture processors to be excited about. In addition to new cores and a newly designed I/O chiplet—expected to deliver better memory performance and lower power consumption—Zen 6 is primarily set to increase core counts.And the actual core counts for various individual models has now surfaced online. Read more “Zen 6: How Many Cores Will AMD’s New Desktop Processors Have?”
We covered leaked reports regarding Nova Lake processors recently, which Intel is preparing as the new Core Ultra 400 desktop generation, that should be launching before the end of this year. The leaker known as Jaykihn—currently perhaps the most reliable source on Intel’s roadmap—also shared details about the chipset lineup that will accompany Nova Lake (the CPUs will introduce a new LGA 1954 socket platform). Read more “Intel chipsets for Nova Lake boards: Specs and features”
While we wait for the refresh of Arrow Lake desktop CPUs—except the cancelled the top-tier SKU—new details have surfaced shedding light on the upcoming Core Ultra 400 “Nova Lake” generation, expected to deliver a major next-gen leap. The leaks cover power consumption and cooling, as well as the architecture of the high-performance cores in these processors. Intel is preparing a previously unseen change to CPU cache and interconnect design. Read more “Intel Nova Lake: P-Cores clustered, 52-core draws up to 700 W?”
Once again, we return to a topic that is probably as popular in the PC world as artificial intelligence (and is close buddies with it): memory prices. TrendForce has released their outlook of how DRAM prices—that is, system memory and graphics memory—are expected to develop in Q1 2026. Unfortunately, it appears that the explosive price surge is not staying, but the three months we are now entering could be the worst yet. Read more “Memory prices to double in Q1 2026 compared to year-end”
Yesterday, Nvidia hosted a Central European media briefing where they showcased its latest technological developments live. Unsurprisingly, the spotlight was on innovations unveiled or launched last month at CES 2026—namely the G-Sync Pulsar technology for monitors and DLSS 4.5, both of which we have already covered in separate articles—as well as a demo of the ACE technology, which aims to bring AI-driven assistants into games. Read more “Our visit at Nvidia: AI game assistants and G-Sync Pulsar LCDs”
Intel needs to secure large (and numerous) external customers for its chip fabs to be able to keep them running. So far, Intel Foundry has been generating multibillion-dollar losses every quarter—but now it may have glimpsed light at the end of the tunnel. Companies are currently looking to diversify away from their dependence on TSMC, and partly thanks to this, Intel has apparently managed to land a very important customer: Nvidia. Read more “Intel reportedly landed a deal for fabbing Nvidia’s Feynman GPU”
QLC memory has caught on in SSDs, but remains a minority while TLC remains the standard. Increasing capacity by storing more bits in a single cell now appears to have run its course for now, and PLC NAND (5 bits per cell) has yet to materialize. A new approach based on so-called Multi-Site Cell layout may take over. Hynix has now presented this technology in chips that are meant to achieve PLC NAND–level capacity without its drawbacks. Read more “The future of SSDs: MSC NAND instead of PLC and HLC fragile tech?”
AMD does not have a new desktop CPU generation this year and is just refreshing previous Zen 5 chips, as in the Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” APUs announced at CES 2026. While a matching refresh of last year’s high-performance Ryzen AI Max 300 processors was not announced there, it appears this lineup will also receive similar a minor update. That will have to suffice for a while, as a brand-new generation is still far away. Read more “AMD preparing Strix Halo refresh. Zen 6 successor not until 2028”
Recently we have reported on GPU vendors (Nvidia and apparently AMD as well) reducing graphics card production or cutting output of cheaper models in favor of more expensive ones due to memory prices. Unfortunately, this is not the only factor that will likely drive prices upwards. There’s another factor at work that could significantly raise the prices of gaming GPUs and turn so-called recommended prices into an outright fiction. Read more “Nvidia has scrapped the program that kept GPU prices at MSRP level”
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