Author: Jan Olšan

AI pays better: Micron kills Crucial, exits consumer memory & SSDs

Memory, News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

The next casualty of the massive price hikes and memory shortages fuelled by the AI bubble is, ironically, an actual memory vendor. More precisely, a business that used to support them, but which now isn’t lucrative enough compared to the booming AI datacenter chip business. In a way, it’s symbolic of how the PC industry’s pursuit of AI profits is currently squeezing out “ordinary” everyday customers—both consumers and professionals. Read more “AI pays better: Micron kills Crucial, exits consumer memory & SSDs” »

Intel Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake pro notebooky (Autor: Intel)

1.8nm Intel Panther Lake CPUs in January. Launching at CES

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” CPUs last month, the new generation of chiplet-based mobile CPUs, also debuting the company’s 1.8nm process. Intel missed the back-to-school or autumn windows it preferred to launch the new generations in the past, with only a paper unveiling happening in October that didn’t even specify a release date. And only now do we finally have information on when they will actually hit the market. Read more “1.8nm Intel Panther Lake CPUs in January. Launching at CES” »

Zen 7 Details Leak: Larger Cache, 1.4nm Process, Grimlock APUs

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

AMD has unveiled its future processor roadmaps during Financial Analyst Day last week, officially revealing the Zen 7 CPU architecture plans for the first time. The company hasn’t said much more yet, but Moore’s Law is Dead published a video providing further details about Zen 7 and a preview of what processors with these cores might look like,  around the same time. While it’s unverified information, it’s quite interesting. Read more “Zen 7 Details Leak: Larger Cache, 1.4nm Process, Grimlock APUs” »

New GPUs Delayed Due to AI: RTX 5000 Super Not Until Q3 2026

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

This year’s AI boom—or bubble—has caused shortages of NAND flash, SSDs, DRAM, and even memory for graphics cards. Price rising is reportedly even accelerating. It seems this situation could also disrupt the gaming graphics card market. Throughout this year, reports piled up suggesting Nvidia would likely release an updated GeForce RTX 5000 Super series next year with larger memory capacities, but this plan may have fallen through. Read more “New GPUs Delayed Due to AI: RTX 5000 Super Not Until Q3 2026” »

AMD reveals GPU and APU plans: RDNA 5 and Zen 6-based Medusa

Graphics, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

At AMD’s Financial Analyst Day conference, the company presented its long-term financial model, strategy, and related matters. More importantly, the roadmaps, i.e., plans for future products, were unveiled as part of the event. We already wrote about the CPU roadmap, which for the first time featured the Zen 7 core. Alongside it, the company also showed a plan for new Radeon GPU architectures and Ryzen mobile processors. Read more “AMD reveals GPU and APU plans: RDNA 5 and Zen 6-based Medusa” »

Optical drives make a comeback in Japan due to Windows 11

Notebooks, PC cases | | Jan Olšan

While most tech enthusiasts would likely declare optical media a dead relic if asked, few things are absolute truth in reality. The recent end of Windows 10 support and the resulting wave of new PC purchases have triggered a minor revival of this technology in Japan. This country’s PC market has always had its unique quirks, one being the enduring loyalty to optical drives and the content stored on optical media. Read more “Optical drives make a comeback in Japan due to Windows 11” »

OCCT V15 adds graphics cards coil whine detection feature

Graphics, News, Software | | Jan Olšan

Gamers are likely familiar with so-called coil whine, an unpleasant phenomenon where your graphics card emits tweeting sounds under some loads. It’s especially bothersome with quiet cooling, in which case these sounds—caused by vibrating coils in the VRMs—can get downright grating. OCCT now offers a way to test your graphics card for coil whine, which could be useful when analysing if a PSU replacement might help you, for example. Read more “OCCT V15 adds graphics cards coil whine detection feature” »

Budget gaming CPU for AM5: AMD preparing Ryzen 5 7500X3D

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD isn’t preparing just new high-end “X3D” gaming processors with Zen 5 architecture; cheaper alternatives could launch alongside them. According to a leak, the company could release a budget gaming processor with 3D V-Cache utilizing older Zen 4 cores. This model would be similar in nature to the popular Ryzen 7 5700X3D or the recent 5500X3D model, but using the current AM5 platform instead of AM4, which is now a dead end. Read more “Budget gaming CPU for AM5: AMD preparing Ryzen 5 7500X3D” »

Intel Nova Lake w/o AVX10 and APX? No mention in documents

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We previously reported that Intel’s code in the openDNN project hinted at Intel Core Ultra 400 processors codenamed Nova Lake supporting the AVX10 and AVX-512 instructions for the first time—the modern 512-bit SIMD extension useful for AI, multimedia, and demanding computations. Simultaneously, the cores of these CPUs were supposed to gain the APX extension. However, information from Intel has now cast doubt on both. Read more “Intel Nova Lake w/o AVX10 and APX? No mention in documents” »

Intel Arrow Lake Refresh: More cores for affordable models

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Early next year, Intel will release new desktop CPUs meant to refresh its current Core Ultra 200 (codenamed „Arrow Lake“) line for socket LGA 1851. A sneak peek at what we can expect has now been provided by a leak of one of the coming models in the database of Geekbench, software used for CPU performance benchmarks. In it, someone took out for a spin one of the CPUs that will be released as part of the coming refresh. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake Refresh: More cores for affordable models” »

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (Autor: Ľubomír Samák)

New X3D Ryzens to eliminate clock issues, 192MB model on the way

CPU coolers, News | | Jan Olšan

In August, we had a report that AMD is preparing new Ryzen 9000 processors aimed at gamers: a 16-core chip that would no longer have its large 3D V-Cache only on half the cores (or better said under, as the cache die sits beneath the core die), but on both, and a new gaming 8-core with V-Cache. The specifications have now surfaced, and it looks like both CPUs could be a bigger surprise than expected. Read more “New X3D Ryzens to eliminate clock issues, 192MB model on the way” »

AM6 socket due in 2030. Even Zen 7 will come to AM5 boards

Motherboards, Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

For a time, we weren’t sure whether AMD would stick with the current AM5 socket—used for Zen 4 and Zen 5 desktop CPUs (Ryzen 7000, 8000, and 9000)—and extend support to the next generation with Zen 6 cores. Multiple sources have now confirmed it will. What’s more, AM5 may last even longer: evidence suggests these motherboards could eventually accept upgrades to processors using an entirely new architecture. Read more “AM6 socket due in 2030. Even Zen 7 will come to AM5 boards” »

Intel and AMD agree on future of x86 CPUs: AMX and RAM tagging

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

AMD and Intel announced a surprising rapprochement a year ago, when both companies, together with PC manufacturers and big software players, founded a consortium to oversee the future development of x86 CPUs and their platform. Faced with the growing threat from Arm processors (which was certainly a motivation), this has proved a good choice and will help push modern extensions for the traditional PC processor platform. Read more “Intel and AMD agree on future of x86 CPUs: AMX and RAM tagging” »

Intel Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake pro notebooky (Autor: Intel)

Intel Core 300 CPUs Unveiled: Details and Features of Panther Lake

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel unveiled its next generation of Core Ultra 300 laptop processors, codenamed Panther Lake last week. This wasn’t the full launch, but we did learn a lot about their layout and design, as well as the architecture and new features they’ll bring. The main strengths of Panther Lake likely won’t be the CPU cores themselves, but the whole platform’s features. Another plus is that manufacturing is moving back to Intel’s own fabs. Read more “Intel Core 300 CPUs Unveiled: Details and Features of Panther Lake” »

Intel Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake pro notebooky (Autor: Intel)

Xe3: What’s new in Panther Lake’s GPU architecture? [analysis]

Analysis, Graphics | | Jan Olšan

Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” processors last week, which we have covered here. What we left aside is that Panther Lake also debuts a new GPU architecture, Xe3. Aside from the move to a 1.8 nm node, this is arguably the biggest change Panther Lake introduces, as the CPU cores appear mostly unchanged. Xe3 is Intel’s most advanced GPU to date and in this article, we take a closer look at what it brings. Read more “Xe3: What’s new in Panther Lake’s GPU architecture? [analysis]” »

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