The future of handheld gaming is shifting, with the new Intel Panther Lake and its impressive Core Ultra X9 388H CPU leading the charge. For gaming handhelds, this is looking to be a game-changer, and ...

Intel is under the impression that it's Nova Lake-S launch on the desktop will bring the fight to AMD in a big way, as evidenced by recent comments made by the company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), ...

TL;DR: Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 386H "Panther Lake" CPU offers strong single- and multi-core performance with 16 cores and advanced cache, but it trails AMD's flagship Strix Halo APUs in ...

[Editors' Note, April 17, 2026: This article and its charts were edited to add comparison results from our tests of two of Intel's "Panther Lake" laptop CPUs.] With its 18-core loadout, the Snapdragon ...

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Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Intel has been through a tumultuous time lately. Not only has its share price dropped like a stone, but its Raptor Lake CPUs have been beset by problems this year, including game crashes, and even ...

Still lags behind AMD's top X3D chips for gaming Can get quite hot More reliant on fast RAM than AMD X3D chips If you're in the market for an all-around powerful gaming CPU but don't want to stretch ...

We have had multi-core processors in our PCs for over a decade, and today they are considered the norm. At first it was dual-core, then quad-core, and today companies like Intel and AMD offer high end ...

Today, more reader input, this time on my newsletter regarding multi-core systems. Several readers wrote to tell me that, yes, the move to multi-core platforms obviously is inevitable, but there ...