The price hike comes after Intel's initial 10% increase at the end of March; the total goal is to raise prices by 30% compared to 2025 pricing.

Intel has announced a multiyear collaboration with Google that will see the hyperscaler commit to using multiple generations of Intel CPUs in its data centers. The partners will all co-develop custom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)-based IPUs (infrastructure processing units) for “scaling… heterogeneous AI systems.”

Intel versus AMD used to feel like an easy call, but building a PC nowadays means looking past old assumptions and comparing what each brand does best.

With RAM prices still stuck in orbit, older CPUs that support DDR4 RAM are becoming ever more attractive. Intel clearly wants to take advantage.

Intel has mostly fixed its past mistakes with Arrow Lake.

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon. Quad-cores. Hyper-Threading. Turbo-Boosting.

There will be no 'special edition' of the flagship with the refresh of Arrow Lake, which isn't surprising based on what we're hearing about CPU supply.

This isn't the first time Intel has tweaked its CPU socket mounting system, though. Although Alder Lake and Raptor Lake used the traditional retention arm mounting system, Intel also offered newer RL-ILM socket systems with high-end LGA1851 motherboards for the Arrow Lake generation of chips.

AMD has been unafraid to push back against the long-standing dominance of Intel in the CPU arena by talking up both the value-per-dollar and high-end performance delivered by their latest Ryzen hardware. In 2020, AMD debuted the Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs ...