It looks like AMD’s latest AGESA ComboAM5PI 1.0.0.4 firmware has done more harm than good. As tipped by hardware leaker chi11eddog(opens in new tab), the firmware reportedly disables some cores on the Ryzen 5 7600X, prompting various motherboard vendors to pull the update from their websites.

Building large monolithic many-core CPUs is extremely hard even for renowned chip designers. For Chinese CPU developers, many of whom do not have access to leading-edge production nodes, the only way to build a processor with high core count is to adopt a chiplet design.

When it comes to memory modules, there is usually a tradeoff between performance and capacity. But the novel MCR DIMM concept introduced by SK hynix and Intel on Thursday promises to wed extreme performance and capacity. The memory maker promises that its MCR DIMMs will enable data transfer rates of over 8000 MT/s, while offering unprecedented capacities.

A newly undisclosed Raptor Lake mobile part has made its way to the Geekbench browser, in a new listing shared by @BenchLeaks on Twitter involving a Dynabook portable PC. The Core i7-1370P is the successor to the Alder Lake i7-1270P. The most noteworthy upgrade is the addition of two more performance cores, bringing the chip’s core count up to 14 cores and 20 threads in total.

The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today. While there aren’t any unexpected changes to the leadership spot — the AMD-powered exascale-class Frontier still ranks as the fastest system in the world while Intel grapples with delays for the Aurora system — the list does reveal that AMD continues to take over more of the top spots. AMD also comprised 84% of the new systems added to the list.

Hardcore overclocker Elmor officially broke the CPU frequency world record with Intel’s brand-new Core i9-13900K 24-core processor. The best CPU hit a staggering 8.812GHz using liquid nitrogen cooling, dethroning the 8-year reigning champion, the FX-8370, by 90MHz.

We recently broke the news that Intel’s Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked to 4chan and Github, with the 6GB file containing tools and code for building and optimizing BIOS/UEFI images. We reported the leak within hours of the initial occurrence, so we didn’t yet have confirmation from Intel that the leak was genuine.

According to AMD, Intel, and the South Korean trade ministry, sales of processors and memory for client PCs are dropping faster and more significantly than expected. Media reports say that shipments of memory were down nearly 25 percent last month because of softening demand in Europe and the U.S., as well as lockdowns in China.

According to a report by DigiTimes Asia, DDR5 memory prices are expected to plunge in the 2nd half of 2022 and continue to drop in 2023. DDR5 contract prices reportedly fell by 20% in July, and chip vendors have begun ‘offloading’ entry-level DDR5 chips, with consumer DDR5 module pricing at channel distributors falling below that of memory module manufacturers.