Intel Battlemage GPU: everything we know so far

Intel Battlemage GPU: everything we know so far

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Despite a rocky start, Intel’s Arc GPUs are now among the best graphics cards you can buy. Targeting budget PC gamers, Intel has established itself as a major player in gaming graphics cards, and all eyes are on Team Blue with its next generation of GPUs, codenamed Battlemage. We know … Read more

The sales numbers for Intel’s new chips are just depressing

The sales numbers for Intel’s new chips are just depressing

Intel’s latest Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 200S processors have been off to a rocky debut, receiving middling reviews from hardware testers, including from our own testing. But according to recent sales data from Mindfactory, Germany’s leading online PC hardware retailer, not a single Core Ultra 200-series CPU has been sold so far. Meanwhile, AMD continues … Read more

Nvidia replacing Intel in Dow Jones Industrial Average

Nvidia replacing Intel in Dow Jones Industrial Average

Intel will lose its spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a 25-year run to Nvidia, S&P Dow Jones Indices said Friday, the latest blow to the struggling chipmaker that was among the first two technology firms to be included in the blue-chip index. Once the dominant force in chipmaking, Intel has in recent years ceded … Read more

Intel invests US$300 million in China chip packaging and testing plant

Intel invests US0 million in China chip packaging and testing plant

US semiconductor giant Intel said it would expand its chip packaging and testing base in Chengdu, in a show of commitment to the mainland market despite a recent call by a Beijing-backed cybersecurity group to review the company’s products. In addition to enlarging packaging and testing capacity for server chips, the facility will also establish … Read more

The death of Moore’s Law is finally starting to stink

The death of Moore’s Law is finally starting to stink

For more than two decades we’ve heard about the death of Moore’s Law. It was a principle of the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, positing that the number of transistors in a chip would double about every two years. In 2006, Moore himself said it would end in the 2020s. MIT Professor Charles Leiserson said … Read more

Intel Arc Battlemage finally shows signs of life

Intel Arc Battlemage finally shows signs of life

In the last few weeks, we’ve been bombarded with reports regarding Nvidia’s upcoming top graphics cards, but leakers have all been silent about Intel Arc Battlemage. Today, however, we saw signs of life straight from the source as Intel has included Battlemage graphics cards in its new media drivers. As spotted by VideoCardz, Intel added … Read more

Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs can still consume a ton of power

Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs can still consume a ton of power

Intel has made a big deal about the efficiency of its upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs, which are looking to earn a spot among the best processors when they release later this week. Some early benchmark results HXL on X (formerly Twitter) show that the CPUs can still draw a ton of power if you stray … Read more

Asus Zenbook S 14 vs. MacBook Air M3: impressively close

Asus Zenbook S 14 vs. MacBook Air M3: impressively close

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends Apple’s MacBook Air M3 represents the latest of the company’s very successful thin-and-light laptops built around Apple Silicon’s fast and highly efficient chipsets. It’s one of the best laptops made, and Windows machines have had a hard time keeping up. Now, Intel has introduced a new chipset, the Core Ultra … Read more

JD.com says sorry to customers after Singles’ Day campaign with comedian sparks backlash

JD.com says sorry to customers after Singles’ Day campaign with comedian sparks backlash

Yang, known for her biting jokes about men, on Monday appeared in a JD.com live-streaming session that sparked a four-day backlash from some of the platform’s users, which prompted the Beijing-based online retailer to issue an apology on Friday. A Weibo user, with the pseudonym Zhichilaotou, said he had cancelled his JD.com account and persuaded … Read more

China spy agency warns of growing cybersecurity threats amid call for Intel review

China spy agency warns of growing cybersecurity threats amid call for Intel review

China’s top spy agency has warned of state security threats following a Chinese cybersecurity group’s call for a review of Intel products sold on the mainland. “Cybersecurity threats and risks are becoming more pronounced, permeating various fields such as politics, economics, culture, society, ecology and national defence,” the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in … Read more