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Team Red announced new budget-graphics cards to hit back at Nvidia and talked up its Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 processors.

By Michael Kan
AMD Computex keynote

Plans to tariff foreign-made semiconductors could derail TSMC's plans to spend $165 billion on semiconductor factories in Arizona.

By Michael Kan
TSMC plant

AMD dropped new Zen 5-based Threadripper processors and a new RDNA 4 Radeon AI Pro GPU for workstation customers during its Computex 2025 keynote. Here's what we know so far.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000

Cristiano Amon discussed all the progress Qualcomm has made in building up its ecosystem for Arm-based Windows PCs and how it sees AI impacting user workloads.

By Michael Kan
Cristiano Amon

At Computex 2025, the chip maker showed off desktop development kits and an SFF PC based on Intel next-generation Core silicon, up and running in real apps.

By John Burek
Intel Panther Lake

AMD SVP Jack Huynh will take the stage late Tuesday night US time to talk about the company's latest plans for the PC market.

By Michael Kan
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Qualcomm is coming to Computex amid a heated rivalry between Arm and x86 chips. CEO Cristiano Amon will give us all the details in a keynote that begins on May 18, at 11 p.m. PT.

By Michael Kan
Qualcomm logo

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 mobile platform and MediaTek's Dimensity 9400e chips offer some AI tricks and mobile gaming improvements, among other upgrades.

By James Peckham
A logo for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset

Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex choice you will make. Let's simplify it! Here's how to make sense of AMD's and Intel's lines, backed by dozens of our deep-dive reviews.

 Intel Core i9-9900K

The company previews the new chip node as Intel's foundry business tries to take on TSMC and recruit more tech companies as clients.

By Michael Kan
Intel Direct Event

This would be the second mass layoff at the company in less than a year. 15,000 jobs were cut in August as part of cost-reduction measures.

By Jibin Joseph
Intel logo outside company headquarters in Santa Clara

With more chips and choices than ever, it can be downright puzzling to pick the right laptop processor. We make sense of the latest mobile CPUs to help you land the best notebook for your budget.

By Charles Jefferies
How to Choose a Laptop CPU

How much better are Apple's new M4 processors than the previous generation? We compiled all our testing results to find out.

By Brian Westover & Matthew Buzzi
Apple M3 vs M4

Nvidia teams up with Foxconn and Taiwan-based Wistron for factories in Houston and Dallas, respectively. The news comes as Trump has said repeatedly he plans to tariff foreign-made chips.

By Michael Kan
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4.5 Editors' Choice

AMD's fierce Ryzen 9 9950X3D delivers a small step up from the Ryzen 9 9950X in CPU performance and a bigger leap in certain gaming scenarios. For discriminating gamers, that justifies this 16-core chip's slightly steeper price.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Graphics cards were previously targeted in Trump's aluminum-focused tariffs, and a trade group now expects they'll be hit by his reciprocal tariff scheme, too.

By Michael Kan
rtx 5090

We stacked up the very latest iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and MacBook Air and Pro models to see how the different flavors and implementations of Apple's M4 chips perform.

By Brian Westover
Apple M4 Chips

Semiconductors are exempt under Trump's initial round of reciprocal tariffs, but not for long, the president tells reporters on Air Force One today.

By Michael Kan
President Trump

The company touts NPU and gaming advances on a Kompanio Ultra chipset that targets Intel’s spot in higher-end Chromebooks.

By Rob Pegoraro
A MediaTek-supplied image of the Kompanio Ultra processor, showing it against a black background

Twice in one month, CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' that are 'melting' from high demand. Can its infrastructure keep up with the pace of development?

By Emily Forlini
Nvidia chip