Central processing unit

Intel 14th-gen Meteor Lake: architecture, specs, performance

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Intel’s 14th-gen Meteor Lake processors are here, and they’re ready to compete against some of the best processors for laptops. While they don’t currently — and may never — have desktop counterparts, Meteor Lake chips bring improved graphics performance, AI capabilities, and high core counts to thin and light laptops. What’s new in Meteor Lake, … Read more

AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t all that new

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AMD AMD new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t as new as they seem. During its Advancing AI event, AMD announced that Ryzen 8040 chips are coming to laptops, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a new generation of processors. AMD doesn’t call them next-gen CPUs, rather referring to them as “the next step in … Read more