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Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: ‘we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early’

Intel says it has enough memory stockpiled to continue to sell Lunar Lake to plan. According to CFO, David Zinsner, the company has dodged the worst of the ongoing memory crisis by being “relatively aggressive” in securing memory for the mobile chip. “I think we’ve got what we need based on the current forecast,” Zinsner…

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Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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Intel Nova Lake CPUs on track for late 2026 as exec downplays shuffling capacity to meet datacenter demand: ‘We have important customers in both datacenter and client and that needs to be our priority’

Nova Lake, the next-generation of Core processor, is set to launch at the end of the year. That’s no surprise, but with the ongoing memory crisis making upgrading your processor and motherboard a very expensive ordeal, we had worried for both Intel and AMD’s forthcoming generations. In Intel’s Q4 earnings call, the company’s CEO, Lip-Bu…

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