Category: Processors

Intel to unveil new Core Ultra 200 desktop processors next week

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

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” »

Unified Core: Breakthrough Change Is Coming To Intel CPUs

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

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” »

Bartlett Lake, Intel’s P-Core Only CPUs: Models and Specs

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

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” »

Zen 6: How Many Cores Will AMD’s New Desktop Processors Have?

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

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?” »

Intel Nova Lake: P-Cores clustered, 52-core draws up to 700 W?

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

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?” »

AMD preparing Strix Halo refresh. Zen 6 successor not until 2028

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

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” »

Gorgon Point APUs and Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch dates revealed

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

At CES 2026, AMD officially announced thew Ryzen AI 400 series processors for laptops, a refresh of the Ryzen AI 300 lineup still based on the Zen 5 architecture, and a new flagship gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. As to when these products would actually go on sale, the company only referred to later part of the current quarter. Actual launch days info has leaked now though, and the good news is that the wait should not be long. Read more “Gorgon Point APUs and Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch dates revealed” »

Phison E37T controller: Affordable Gen5 SSDs with 15 GB/s speeds

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

NAND flash has become significantly more expensive, while DRAM prices have surged even more dramatically. DRAM is used as cache in higher-end drives and modules and cheaper SSDs will therefore become more important than ever—especially those that do not require DRAM. “DRAMless” SSDs have improved considerably in recent years, but a new PCIe 5.0 controller from Phison could push them even further—practically to high-end levels. Read more “Phison E37T controller: Affordable Gen5 SSDs with 15 GB/s speeds” »

Ryzen 7 9850X3D is here: 3D V-Cache for games and 5.6 GHz clock

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD’s Tuesday CES 2026 keynote was entirely dominated by artificial intelligence hype. While it wasn’t completely devoid of hardware announcements, it focused mainly on servers and the enterprise market. Surprisingly, what many of you may have been waiting for—new Ryzen processors—did not happen (just like last year with the Radeon RX 9000). However, a new flagship gaming CPU was silently launched at the time: the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Read more “Ryzen 7 9850X3D is here: 3D V-Cache for games and 5.6 GHz clock” »

Windows 11 gets hardware disk encryption on Intel Panther Lake

Notebooks, Processors, Software | | Jan Olšan

In December, Microsoft promised that Windows 11 would focus on performance, including in games, during 2026. One of the coming optimizations concerns disk encryption. Microsoft currently uses software algorithms for BitLocker disk encryption, which have certain performance limitations and can increase laptop power consumption. This year, Windows will gain more efficient hardware accelerated encryption—but there is a complication. Read more “Windows 11 gets hardware disk encryption on Intel Panther Lake” »

Cinebench 2026

Cinebench 2026 is here: New benchmark especially suited to Ryzen

News, Processors, Software | | Jan Olšan

Perhaps the most popular benchmark in reviews and CPU performance measurements is Cinebench, which simulates 3D rendering in Maxon’s professional Cinema 4D software and can be used as a metrics for comparing CPUs. Since version R23, it also benchmarks Apple Arm processors. Maxon has now released a new version, Cinebench 2026, which works better with the latest processors and GPUs and also includes an interesting new mode. Read more “Cinebench 2026 is here: New benchmark especially suited to Ryzen” »

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” »

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” »

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” »

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