Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K is Team Blue's fastest desktop chip and currently sells for $519 on Amazon (discounted from $599).

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.

I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro and am idly speculating some of the configs on the new 13” and 16” models. The processor in my 15” is a 2.8 GHz quad-core i7 (the “Haswell” generation). The new 13” can ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...

Single-thread performance narrows the gap far further. Intel’s processor scores about 4,926, slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 ...

Intel officially has its AI laptop chips in the race to take on AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm combined with new, more powerful integrated Intel Arc graphics. I've been reviewing hardware and software, ...

Meteor Lake PC processors arrive in December. A few weeks later, Intel will begin building its first 2025 processors, code-named Panther Lake. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Intel’s Core i9-13900K will ship with 24 cores, 32 threads, and clock speeds of up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the over two decades that I’ve been covering the PC space, I ...

In the coming months, you'll be swamped with new laptop processors from AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm. Strix Point, Lunar Lake, x86 vs. Arm, integrated GPUs, NPUs for AI workloads, and on-package memory ...