First Intel Wildcat Lake laptop spotted in the wild, geared to compete with MacBook Neo — features an aluminum chassis with 11W fanless mode
Intel launched its Wildcat Lake series of CPUs last week, called “Core Series 3,” with but we haven’t seen any laptop with these chips.. That is, until today. NotebookCheck’s Vaidyanathan Subramaniam just took to X to show off the first machine equipped with Wildcat Lake silicon. It’s a reference design, as denoted by the Intel branding on the laptop, but it’s still our best look at a potential MacBook Neo competitor on the Windows side.
Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an ‘upgrade’ for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit
The ongoing RAM chip crisis is bulldozing everything in its path, and both retailers and memory kit manufacturers are feeling the sting whenever they need to replace a kit under warranty.
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus makes its Geekbench debut with 5.3 GHz boost clocks — Arrow Lake refresh SKU benchmarked in single- and multi-core tests
Intel is reportedly preparing to launch its Arrow Lake refresh, aka 16th Gen, next month with at least three SKUs present at launch. One of those is the Core Ultra 250K Plus, the successor to the existing Core Ultra 245K, with a bumped-up core config and tuned clock speeds. While we’ve seen benchmarks leaks for other ARL-R chips before, the 250K Plus has just appeared for the first time on Geekbench.
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen AI 400 laptops could launch on January 22, five days ahead of Panther Lake — Gorgon Point release date leaks through early Asus listing in China
AMD just unveiled its new mobile Ryzen AI 400 CPU lineup at CES just a few days ago and promised to release those products in first quarter of this year. Unlike a proper next-gen offering, Gorgon Point is for all intents and purposes just a refreshed Ryzen AI 300 series with minor tweaks. And now we know that it’s coming perhaps even sooner than expected — on January 22 — according to a new etail listing in China.
Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as ‘easy’ as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs
An enterprising Russian enthusiast has taken to building his own memory amid the extreme price increases driven by a global shortage. As the world suffers from dried-up memory inventories, some people are wondering when things will go back to normal, while others are looking toward exotic alternatives like SODIMM-to-UDIMM adapters.
$5,000 Corsair pre-built keeps on frying Intel CPUs due to lack of BIOS update, tech alleges — kills three Intel Core i9 chips because latest version still doesn’t have fix for Intel crashing issues
A YouTuber and computer technician went on their channel to complain about Corsair’s pre-built, as his customer went back to his shop three times in the past year just to RMA the Intel Core i9-14900K on their $5,000 gaming PC. According to Matthew Wieland of Matt’s Computer Services, he is certain the processor on the gaming PC is suffering from instability after he ran several tests on both the motherboard and CPU.