With CPU design shifting to an emphasis on improved performance per watt, Intel has followed suit. On Thursday, Intel updated its CPU roadmap with an emphasis on maximizing power efficiency. In a ...

Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake-S processors with 8 P-Cores are based on the Lion Cove CPU architecture, while the 16 E-Cores are based on the new Crestmont CPU architecture: a grand total of 24 cores and ...

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Backside power delivery, however, is the one CPU innovation that I'm actually really looking forward to. It's the sort of ...

New reports suggest that Intel Z890 motherboards will come with Intel baseline power settings enabled by default, to avoid a recurrence of the instability issues that have plagued Intel's 14th-gen ...

Intel's big upgrade for low-power systems is going to be its next-next-gen Lunar Lake CPU family, which will be inside of laptops later this year, but its upcoming Arrow Lake CPU architecture is ...

Of all the metrics we commonly discuss at ExtremeTech, we'd argue TDP (Thermal Design Power) is easily the worst. If clock speed, core counts, IPC, and memory bandwidth are imperfect methods of ...

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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 ...