AMD is refreshing its X3D lineup, with new chips part of the Ryzen 9000 family, one of which is the updated Ryzen 7 9850X3D. As the name suggests, it's pretty much the same as the existing 9800X3D, but with 400 MHz higher boost clocks, which have now been confirmed won't require more power.

Industry sources have told Tom's Hardware that there has been no communication from AMD about price hikes on Ryzen processors.

The best gaming CPU seems to getting a stronger brother with higher clocks.

Intel's Core i9-14900KF has finally dropped below $400 for the first time.

Let's make the best of a bad situation.

Leakers are selling engineering samples for Panther Lake weeks before its official launch, with at least two different SKUs floating online. The first is an alleged 10-core Core Ultra 3 SKU from a well-known tipster, while the second sample appears to be an accurate pre-production model, as it lacks LP-E cores, which all Panther Lake silicon is expected to have.

There's good news and band news for Intel's Panther Lake and 18A. Bad news is that its yields are likely still very low. Good news is that their improvement are on the industry-standard yield ramp pace, which means that Intel is on track to hit industry-standard yields in early 2027.

Pat Gelsinger's initials remained on the Intel 386 silicon die, despite this being something that wasn't done at Intel, thanks to some quick thinking.

The upcoming, next-gen Diamond Rapids server CPUs from Intel have received a big shakeup. Previously, both 8-channel and 16-channel SKUs were planned for Xeon 7, expected to succeed existing Xeon 6 models, respectively. Now, Intel has confirmed that 8CH Diamond Rapids has been officially cancelled; Xeon 7 will be only 16-channel.

AMD's Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores

An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.

An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before.

This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.

Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.

AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 processor has hit its lowest ever price on Amazon, according to popular price tracking websites, and it comes with a boxed cooler.

AMD's rumored upcoming budget CPU, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, has just been spotted on GeekBench with solid single-core and multi-core results that put it on par with the 7600X3D, while having the same 96 MB of L3 cache. Unfortunately, for value-conscious gamers, the price of DDR5 right now might turn you away from the cheapest X3D chip on the AM5 platform.

Corsair still hasn't released the latest 0x12F Vmin instability fix for its pre-built computers, leading to multiple, repeated failures for some of its customers.

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9700X3D appears on PassMark, hinting at a lower-cost alternative to the 9800X3D for gamers.

AMD has confirmed that Zen 5's RDSEED random number generator is failing, causing it to generate potentially predictable cryptography keys for attackers to exploit. Mitigations for the security flaw are launching throughout the next few months for consumer and datacenter versions of AMD's Ryzen 9000 series CPUs.

Igor Wallossek reports that Amech knew that its SGT-4 thermal paste could corrode copper and damage coolers since October 2024, but kept selling it with bogus compliance papers and later blamed critics instead of fixing the problem.