Processors

Samsung’s Exynos 2600 finally looks like serious 2nm silicon, but yield issues and Qualcomm contracts mean it may stay locked to Korea-only Galaxy S26 models, just as TSMC packaging struggles …

AMD’s next 8-core gaming beast is already running in the wild. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D has been spotted on an ASUS B850M AYW Gaming OC WIFI7 W motherboard, pairing Zen …

A student’s year-long struggle with a Snapdragon X Plus laptop exposes how far Windows on ARM still has to go. From broken software compatibility to OEMs abandoning updates early, the …

Pat Gelsinger is back in the chip wars, this time at xLight, a tiny US startup with a very big check: 150 million dollars in CHIPS Act money to reinvent …

Samsung’s foundry division is quietly turning its 4nm nightmare into a comeback story. Reports say yields have climbed into the 60–70% range, and that boost in stability just helped Samsung …

Ryzen 7 9850X3D has already sneaked into PassMark, and the early scores paint a familiar picture: small gains over the 9800X3D, big jumps over 7800X3D and especially 5800X3D. Same eight …

TSMC is fast-tracking an advanced CoWoS packaging hub in Arizona to keep pace with the AI boom and stop US chipmakers from drifting to Intel and other rivals. If the …

Intel is gearing up for a serious comeback with Panther Lake notebooks and Nova Lake desktops. Built on the new 18A node with fresh core designs, bigger cache, stronger Xe3 …

AMD’s next wave of laptop APUs has leaked, and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 plus Ryzen AI 7 450 are shaping up to be serious contenders. Zen 5 hybrid …

Arm is teaming up with South Korea to open a dedicated chip design school that will train 1,400 engineers by 2030, feeding local fabless firms, AI startups and graduate programs …