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Nvidia tries to muscle into laptop chips

The Hot Take: You will get mid-range only and love it.... Probably all while renting it I assume.

Nvidia wants a slice of every laptop sold, not just the ones with a chunky discrete GPU. The firm is lining up “exclusive” laptop system-on-chips for consumers this year, barging into a market long owned by Intel and AMD while trying to cash in on the AI PC hype. The pitch is that Nvidia has ignored the huge integrated CPU-and-GPU segment, even though it ships bucketloads of graphics chips for gaming and workstations. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said: “There’s 150 million laptops sold per year, and Nvidia’s market largely targets…

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AMD EPYC Venice “Zen 6” 192, 128, 64 Core CPU Samples Leak On SP7 Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Platforms

The Hot Take: Wow, intel has to speed up catch up from the looks if it.

AMD's next-generation EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPU samples have leaked, giving us an early look at the SP7 platform & performance. AMD SP7 Platform Leak Reveals Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Test Boards, Featuring Up To 192 Core EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPUs Venice is the codename for AMD's 6th Gen EPYC family, which replaces the 5th Gen "Turin" lineup. The lineup will feature the brand new Zen 6 core architecture with up to 256 cores, and some big platform updates. Currently, AMD is shipping out its first Venice samples to customers, and some of these have…

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Intel Arrow Lake Refresh CPU prices shot up to 17% above MSRP just 48 hours after launch, dynamic pricing trumps manufacturer's recommended pricing

The Hot Take: The Ai "Shortages" are impacting it all.

The new Core Ultra 200S Plus series has received widespread acclaim within the community, and we liked it as well for rejuvenating Intel's otherwise underwhelming CPU generation. Part of the reason they're getting good reviews is their excellent price-to-performance ratio, which seems to be slightly undone at the moment.

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Intel Confirms Core Ultra 9 290K Plus Will Not Launch

The Hot Take: AMD appears to have per-countered intel, sad this won't come out. Granted we can't get any of the other chips at this point.

Intel has officially confirmed that the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus will not be released, ending months of speculation around what many expected to be the flagship model in the company’s Arrow Lake Refresh desktop lineup.

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GeForce RTX 60 Specs Leak Hints At Huge Memory Bandwidth And Ray Tracing Gains

The Hot Take: I'm glad, but will be actually be able to afford or get any in our hands? Also what games are we going to need this for, as game releases have definitely stagnated along with the market.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 60 Series GPUs will be powered by the Rubin architecture, which exists only for AI and data center use thus far. The Rubin CPX, for example, is built around NVIDIA's GR212 chips, but new information shared with YouTuber RedGamingTech claims the RTX 60 Series chips will be the GR202 (RTX 6090), GR203 (RTX 6080), and GR205

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Apple testing a 200MP rear camera for future iPhone, rumor claims

The Hot Take: Playing catch up?

While Android smartphones have been offering large 200MP sensors for some time, Apple has yet to introduce a similar sensor on the iPhone. That could change soon, according to a new rumor. In a post on Weibo, tipster Digital Chat Station, citing supply chain sources, claims that Apple is testing a large 200MP sensor for a future iPhone. The iPhone 17 Pro Max has a triple 48MP camera setup According to the tipster, Apple is evaluating a 1/1.12-inch sensor, a similar unit expected to debut on the upcoming Oppo…

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Razer's new Blade 16 drops AMD Ryzen for Intel Panther Lake — Brighter OLED display, faster RAM, and Thunderbolt 5 make it better than ever for mixed use

The Hot Take: Interesting, suddenly intel is back in style again? Let's see where this goes.

Razer has taken the wraps off its Blade 16 for 2026, and it's a significant refresh that now builds on Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" chips. Here's what you need to know (and where you can buy it today).

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