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Intel just broke another speed record when it comes to desktop CPUs. The company just , which can reach up to 6.2GHz without overclocking, making it the fastest desktop processor available to consumers. The company did the same thing last year, but that .In addition to the , the i9-14900KS boasts a 24 cores/32 threads architecture and 36 megabytes of Intel’s proprietary Smart Cache technology, which shares the cache memory between the various cores. Intel says this will allow for “powerful performance in gaming and…

Intel is launching its flagship Core i9-14900KS processor today, with clock speeds that boost all the way up to 6.2GHz. That’s 200MHz more than the previous Core i9-13900KS that launched last year and was the first desktop processor to break the 6GHz barrier at stock speeds.This new Core i9-14900KS will be priced at $689, $10 less than the previous 13900KS, and will be available in stores today. The 6.2GHz max turbo frequency is an out-of-the-box boost, so there could be room for overclocking to push these speeds even…

Intel Intel’s “Special Edition” KS chips are meant to be over the top. But the latest Core i9-14900KS has just dropped, and it takes things to new heights of insanity. It’s a super-clocked version of the already ludicrous 14900K that sports the same great quantity of cores, but a boost clock that moves even beyond the extremes of the standard 14900K. It can hit an unprecedented 6.2GHz on a couple of cores right out of the box, making it the fastest CPU by clock speed ever unleashed upon the public. But in modern…

When veteran engineer and executive Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, the once-great chipmaker was in a slump. After failing to adapt to the mobile era and then missing several steps in cutting-edge microprocessor manufacturing, it was now also falling behind in supplying chips to feed the tech industry’s growing hunger for artificial intelligence.With optimism that at times seemed reckless, Gelsinger promised that Intel would make an epic comeback. He vowed to shake up its sleepy corporate culture, refocus…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Some of Intel’s best CPUs may be having stability issues in Unreal Engine 4 and 5 games. According to reports from frustrated users, CPUs like the Core i9-13900K or the Core i9-14900K run into shader compilation issues in certain games, resulting in crashes. The community found a fix that seems to work for most people, but it’s more of a workaround than a real solution. Reports about these problems have been flooding various Steam forums and Reddit communities for months afterSebastian…

Intel also missed out on being the leader in chips used in machine learning projects. Rival Nvidia, which mints chips with TSMC, became the AI industry’s workhorse and has seen its business soar. But Gelsinger argues that with AI still growing fast and millions of AI chips expected to be needed, Intel can become a major player. Generative AI “is transforming everything about computing,” he said at the company event in Santa Clara, California, Wednesday. “Through our foundry I want to manufacture every AI chip in the…

Samsung is the world's biggest memory chip maker and is often among the first globally to introduce new memory technologies. It is being reported that Samsung's LPDDR5X DRAM chips will be integrated into Intel's next-generation processors, and if this report is accurate, it is great news for Samsung. Intel's Lunar Lake processors could have Samsung's onboard LPDDR5X DRAM A new report from DigiTimes claims that LPDDR5X DRAM chips will be integrated into Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake MX processors. This means that upcoming…

Intel would like you to believe that its latest processors have ushered in a new era of personal computing.As the chipmaker puts it, this is the age of the “AI PC,” in which dedicated neural processors help to run large language models, generate artwork, and perform a slew of other machine learning tasks. By boosting on-device AI, Intel believes we’ll see new applications that were either cost-prohibitive or too much of a privacy nightmare to run in the cloud.The company may be right, but it’s also not the first to make…

In September 2023, Intel announced Thunderbolt 5, a connectivity standard for the USB Type-C connector that is based on USB4 Version 2.0. It offers 80Gbps bi-directional bandwidth, which is two times more than what Thunderbolt 4 offers, and 120Gbps unidirectional bandwidth, which is three times more than what Thunderbolt 4 offers. With massive improvements in data transfer speeds, it can support three 4K displays or two 6K displays. However, after the announcement, we didn’t see products with support for Thunderbolt 5…

While Nvidia and AMD duke it out to be supreme GPU champion in the PC gaming world, Intel is also here. Just smiling and waving. The chip firm entered the GPU arena back in 2022, and now it’s a little closer to completing the next iteration of its Arc brand. In an interview with PC World (as spotted by PC Gamer) at CES 2024, Intel Fellow Tom Petersen said that Arc Battlemage (the follow-up to Alchemist) “is coming.” Around 30% of engineers are working on the GPU right now, “mostly on the software side.” Ideally, this all…