Intel is currently in the process of shedding its notoriously labyrinthine bureaucratic layers and the attendant inertia, while eyeing new markets and product categories for its fledgling advanced fabrication nodes, with the scorching-hot ASIC market serving as one such high-probability gambit on the part of the chipmaker's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. As evidence, look no further than Intel's hiring of Dean Jarnac, a former Marvell executive, who has likely been tasked with furthering just such a goal, according to the tech analyst, Jack Gold. Lip-Bu…
Intel's Nova Lake Desktop CPU lineup has leaked, revealing the specs of seven SKUs including the fastest Core Ultra 9 model. Intel Nova Lake "Core Ultra Series 4" Desktop CPUs Leak, Core Ultra 9 4970K Gears Up For LGA 1954 Platforms With 28 Cores & BLLC There have been a spate of leaks surrounding the Intel Nova Lake Desktop CPU family. We have covered many die and SKU configurations in the past, but the latest leak covers the exact details of specific SKUs with their official part identifier name. The leak comes from LC Tech Leaks, which…
The Hot Take: E/P-Core CPUs getting more optimizations from Intel. We'll have to see how AMD does when they start dropping Zen with a similar setup.
Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They've continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on Intel hardware...
The USB Implementers Forum now lists some of Intel's Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake' platforms in its Integrators List, meaning that the products have passed applicable USB compliance and interoperability tests. The PCI-SIG Integrators List also includes Intel’s 900-series chipsets for Nova Lake-S processors. Such tests are conducted ahead of product launches to ensure interoperability and to gain the right to use the PCIe and USB logos on new products.Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Intel VP Robert Hallock sets…
French-language hardware site Hardware & Co has some brilliant die shots of most of Intel's latest processors in a blog entry that was actually posted up back in July but only spotted recently in the broader international hardware community by well-known enthusiast InstLatX64. We're only going to take a look at one of the die shots here, but
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 18, 2026 | Hardware, Intel, x86
The Hot Take: Nice to see it but with no memory available for these newer chips above 6000MT/s, no purpose to upgrade to me.
As Intel prepares for the upcoming Nova Lake S desktop processors, motherboard vendors have started preparing their next-generation of motherboards. Several ASRock Z990 Motherboards Appear in NBD Shipping Manifest, Including Creator, Steel Legend, Pro, and Challenger Series As Intel schedules its next-gen Nova Lake processor lineup for late 2026 or early 2027 launch, its partners have started preparing their next-gen motherboard lineups. With the launch of Intel Nova Lake-S desktop processors, you can expect multiple motherboard vendors to…
The Hot Take: Don't see how much worse it can get when it's basically in complete collapse. Is this because we're supposed to be using CXMT memory chips?
Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan warned that the memory shortage battering PCs and smartphones could get even worse in 2027.
Speaking at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara on 15 September, Tan said the industry had underestimated how serious the memory bottleneck would become.
“Early last year, I said that ‘memory would become a bottleneck.’ Many people did not realise it back then, but as a result, I was right,” Tan said.
According to DigiTimes Tan expects conditions to deteriorate further next year as AI infrastructure…
The Hot Take: Hopefully positioning it for better competition with AMD.
Intel has reportedly changed its plans for the 12 Xe3P iGPU for its desktop lineup, moving it from Nova Lake-S to Razor Lake-S. Intel Nova Lake-S Is No Longer Getting the 12 Xe3P iGPU Treatment, Plans Shift to Razor Lake-S The Intel Nova Lake-S family will be the first to feature the next-generation Xe3P GPU architecture, which is expected to deliver some solid gains over the existing Xe3 GPUs. The integrated graphics will be an integral part of the mobile lineup, but while earlier reports hinted that we would see 12 Xe3P iGPU cores on desktop…
The Hot Take: Nice, as Linux seems to be gaining momentum makes sense.
Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...
The Hot Take: Interesting, given the warranty stances on OC's.
Following an early access period that included over 60,000 participants, auto-overclocking tool Hypertune has released its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, which is built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and developed in partnership with Intel. The company claims the utility can boost frame rates by up to 60%, though you shouldn't expect that as the norm. The tool includes automated CPU and GPU overclocking, as well as customizable Windows features, network optimization, and game-specific optimizations. Go deeper with…