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AMD doesn’t have to do much to stay on the top of the heap for PC gaming CPUs. The class-leading Ryzen 7 9850X3D doesn’t have any real competition. So what does Team Red do instead? Reconfigure its ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip company Arm Holdings ARM-3.84%decrease; red down pointing triangle, took the stage Tuesday in a repurposed waterfront pavilion to unveil his ...

A worsening supply constraint in central processing units made by Intel (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is impacting PC and server makers who are already affected by the memory chip shortage, ...

Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to ...

The Arm AGI CPU can have up to 136 cores per CPU, claiming it has double the performance per watt of x86 chips. The Arm AGI CPU can have up to 136 cores per CPU, claiming it has double the ...

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm Holdings (ARM) took the wraps off its long-awaited custom-designed CPU, aimed at the data center market. The Arm AGI CPU has up to 136 V3 cores per ...

Alibaba designed the XuanTie C950 central processor unit (CPU) for agentic AI purposes. While much of the attention has focused on GPUs, an area Nvidia dominates, CPUs are seen as key for AI ...

Central processing units (CPUs) are having a renaissance, and Nvidia says they're "becoming the bottleneck" amid surging agentic AI workflows. Intel and AMD remain the leaders in data center CPUs, but ...