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Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory

Ampere Computing on Tuesday quietly added several new processors to its AmpereOne family without a formal announcement or press briefings. The quiet release comes after the company was bought by Softbank.
The new AmpereOne M CPUs feature a 12-channel DDR5 memory subsystem and are aimed at applications that require more memory capacity as well as bandwidth.

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Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will seemingly use a new LGA1954 socket

Shipping documents sourced from NBD.ltd purport that Intel might switch to the LGA1954 platform for its next-generation Nova Lake processors on desktop (via Olrak). This is accompanied by PCH tooling likely intended for the 900-series chipsets. Importantly, these listings do not indicate an imminent launch, especially since Nova Lake has officially been confirmed as a 2026 product.

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AMD’s Zen 6-based desktop processors may feature up to 24 cores

AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 processors will remain compatible with AM5, but they are set to introduce a new chiplet-based CPU design and significantly boost core counts across desktop and laptop products, according to sources of ChipHell, as well as Moore’s Law Is Dead. Premium processors for gamers will also feature 3D V-Cache.

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Chinese CPU maker Zhaoxin rolls out DeepSeek support to all processors — entire product lineup now runs DeepSeek LLMs natively

DeepSeek’s rollout into the Chinese consumer market continues, as Zhaoxin has announced its adoption of the DeepSeek-R1 LLM across its hardware lineup. Zhaoxin, one of the few Chinese companies licensed to work with the x86 instruction set, boasts that its processors and OEM systems can natively run the 1.5B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 70B, and 671B parameter models released by DeepSeek so far.

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AMD rumored to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D alongside RDNA 4 GPUs in late March

Reports suggest that AMD will debut its 16-core and 12-core Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs in late March, coinciding with the launch of its Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards. Citing internal sources, French hardware news website CowCotLand claims that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D are planned for release by the end of Q1, aligning with AMD’s provided release timeframe.

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Intel retires Alder Lake mobile CPUs, excluding HX-series — 12th Gen goes EOL starting April 25

In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, Intel is ending its 12th Generation Alder Lake mobile family. These include the standard Core i-series alongside select Pentium and Celeron models that leverage the Alder Lake architecture. No surprise here since Intel has employed more of the same silicon across the 13th Generation mobile, Core 100 (Series 1) and Core 200 (Series 2) families.

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