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'I hope Intel recovers, but it looks pretty tough for them at this stage,' he says.

By Michael Kan
Bill Gates

In October, Arm threatened to axe Qualcomm's license to develop chips based on Arm's designs. But a recent court loss convinced Arm to throw in the towel.

By Rob Pegoraro
A sticker for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Plus processor appears on a laptop at CES 2025

This one covers everything you would attach to or install in a PC: Monitors, keyboards, mice, and graphics cards. Plus—for the DIY builder crowd—rate PC cases, CPUs, storage drives, and even motherboards.

Credit: Andrey Matveeve/Pexels

AMD is shipping more desktop chips to keep up with the demand as the Ryzen 9800X3D remains hard to find in stock.

By Michael Kan
AMD Ryzen 9800x3d

It looks like we're all going to have to make some tradeoffs between raw performance (particularly for graphics), power consumption, and AI capabilities.

By Michael J. Miller
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop

The Biden administration bars some countries from getting advanced chips entirely, while others will need a license to get more than 1,700 GPUs per order.

By Kate Irwin
Close-up on Nvidia Blackwell AI GPU.

Nvidia doesn't think President Biden should make new chip export rules before Trump takes office.

By Kate Irwin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding up chip and computer at CES 2025. He wears all-black.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang suggests quantum computers won't make a big impact in the near future, so we'll likely have to wait until 2045.

By Kate Irwin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presenting with black backdrop behind. He wears all black and is holding his hands outward.

'We have plans,' Jensen Huang tells financial analysts shortly after Nvidia unveiled Project DIGITS, a mini desktop system focused on AI training.

By Michael Kan
Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding a Project Digits

AMD unveiled two new Ryzen 9 9000-series processors at CES 2025 with frame-rate-boosting 3D V-Cache as its latest top-end desktop chips for gamers and creators.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

At CES 2025, AMD served up a smorgasbord of new laptop processor lines: gamer-riffic X3D chips, a workstation-minded Ryzen AI Max family, and the new low-cost Ryzen 200 series.

By Matthew Buzzi
AMD Ryzen 9 AI Max

At CES 2025, Intel has pulled back the curtain on "Arrow Lake" mobile silicon in the U, H, and HX series for the new year, focusing on increased power profiles and less on AI. Plus: "Lunar Lake" gets vPro.

By Joe Osborne  & Brian Westover
Intel CES Keynote

The MediaTek Dimensity 8400 mobile processor offers improved performance, enhanced gaming, and advanced AI capabilities while boosting efficiency.

By Iyaz Akhtar
MediaTek Dimensity 8400 chip

A jury sided with Qualcomm on two of three key points, but couldn't reach a verdict on the third, resulting in a mistrial. The judge cautioned against a new trial and recommended mediation.

By Will McCurdy
Qualcomm Logo

The chip maker has responded to widespread reports of its new Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs delivering subpar frame rates. Some fixes are available to download now, and another is due in January.

Intel Core 5 Ultra

The Jetson Orin Nano Super can locally power large language models and robotics projects, handling almost 70 trillion operations per second.

By Emily Forlini
Jetson Orin Nano Super

Intel's CFO, currently one of its interim CEOs, says Intel is already separating its manufacturing business' finances from the rest of the company.

By Kate Irwin
Intel Raptor Lake CPU in a motherboard.

Google makes a quantum leap that suggests we may live in a multiverse.

By Kate Irwin
Gold quantum computer.

Surprisingly, China is probing Nvidia over its 2020 deal to buy Israeli-American company Mellanox, which designed networking products for supercomputers and data centers. 

By Michael Kan
Nvidia logo

Morris Chang, TSMC founder and former Texas Instruments executive, argues Intel doesn't have a new strategy yet in the wake of its CEO's exit.

By Kate Irwin
Blue modern building with "intel" 3D sign on it.