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Laptop CPUs in 2025 Explained: What to Know Before Buying Your Next Laptop

Intel and AMD have long been the two most popular chipmakers for Windows laptops, and Qualcomm has recently reemerged as a third option. Each of the three offers a wide range of processors that you'll ...
PC World

Confused about laptop CPU model names? Here’s a cheat sheet

Want to go down a tech rabbit hole that’ll leave you utterly confused? Try understanding what processor you’re getting in a Windows laptop. In their zeal to push AI as a selling point, Intel and AMD ...
PC Gamer

'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper ...

Processors 'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures Processors Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are ...
Ars Technica

Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process

Intel will formally launch its first Core Ultra Series 3 laptop processors later this month, the company announced at its CES keynote today. Codenamed Panther Lake and targeted, at least for now, at ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CPU Performance Bottlenecks Limit Parallel Processing Speedups

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...