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.

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.

Over the past several days, multiple reports have emerged that various China-based third-party memory module makers have begun selling DDR5 DRAM sticks for enthusiasts based on DDR5 chips produced by the China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT).

With less than one month left to CES 2025, leaked benchmarks have started to surface starring AMD’s flagship Strix Halo APUs. The Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395 – now that’s a mouthful – has emerged on Geekbench packing 16 CPU cores, 64GB of RAM, and a massive 40 CU (Compute Units) Radeon RX 8600S iGPU (Integrated GPU).

When Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and Shanghai Municipal Government, introduced its KaiXian KX-7000 series of x86 processors in late 2023, it implied that the new CPUs will offer tangible performance improvements over its predecessors as they were based on a brand-new microarchitecture.

Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 5 225H from the Arrow Lake-H mobile family has been tested at Geekbench (via Benchleaks), delivering moderate uplifts compared to its predecessor in the CPU and iGPU (OpenCL) departments.

Micron has launched new DDR5-6400 memory kits to compete with the best RAM money can buy. However, these are normal UDIMMs and should not be confused with the DDR5-6400 CUDIMMs that hit the retail market earlier this month.

When it comes to performance in gaming benchmarks, AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series does not exactly impress, due to the mediocre improvements observed over predecessors. s. Nevertheless, enthusiasts have kept alight higher hopes for the 3D V-Cache enabled Ryzen 9000X3D-series processors, expecting them to deliver a worthwhile performance uplift in games.

Intel announced the on-time launch of its high-performance Xen 6 ‘Granite Rapids’ 6900P-series models today, with five new models spanning from 72 cores up to 128 cores, finally exceeding the core counts of AMD’s existing EPYC models for the first time since 2017, and even matching the core counts of AMD’s soon-to-be-launched Zen 5 Turin processors.