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Intel's Panther Lake appears in public for the first time — what we know about the new chip
By Scott Younker published
Intel's Panther Lake made its first public appearance in Germany, here's what was shown.

The $3,999 M3 Ultra Mac Studio barely beats the $1,999 M4 Max in leaked benchmark
By Darragh Murphy published
Apple's M3 Ultra chip has popped up in a new benchmark with amazing CPU performance, but the M4 Max appears to beat it in one surprising area.

Intel Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S PCs coming this month — here's everything we know
By Darragh Murphy published
At MWC 2025, Intel announced its new slate of Arrow Lake chips shipping on PCs in late March, including Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S.

Apple M5 'high-end' chips may enter mass production in 2025 — here's when it could arrive on MacBook Pro and iPad Pro
By Darragh Murphy published
Apple's "high-end" M5 chips may enter mass production as soon as the second half of 2025, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

New benchmark shows CPUs are getting slower for the first time in history — what is going on?
By Darragh Murphy published
PassMark benchmarks highlight that the CPU performance average has decreased in 2025. Are Intel and AMD CPUs in Windows PCs getting slower?

Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU is the best-performing laptop processor according to new benchmarks — but Apple still beats it in this key area
By Darragh Murphy published
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU has appeared in PassMark, becoming the fastest laptop processor — but Apple still dominates single-thread.

AMD Fire Range Ryzen 9000HX CPUs in laptops set to release in March — with RTX 5090 GPUs
By Darragh Murphy published
The first laptops with AMD's next-gen Fire Range Ryzen 900HX and HX3D CPUs are set to arrive as early as late March sporting RTX 5090 GPUs.

Intel Nova Lake CPU specs leaked — and it's tipped to double PC performance
By Darragh Murphy published
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU is set to arrive in 2026, and a new leak shows that it may come with double the P-cores and E-cores over Arrow Lake.
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