Intel’s one-two punch plan in desktop CPUs is taking shape — Z990 spotted, Nova Lake detailed, ‘Raptor Lake Next’ teased

Intel’s next-gen desktop plans are starting to take shape, and Computex entertained a lot of murmurs about what’s coming from Team Blue over the next year at the event.
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AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers

Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.
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AMD takes over MEXT for memory tiering tech that enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications — tech to ‘address growing memory constraints’ in the data center

AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.
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Intel’s upcoming ‘Raptor Lake Next’ will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding — Lineup may include a special 10-core SKU with 24MB of L3 cache

Intel’s Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.
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Intel reportedly preparing surprise return to DDR4 systems with ‘Raptor Lake Next’ — LGA 1700 platform apparently slated for first half of 2027, takes a page from AMD’s book by extending budget platform longevity

The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

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Nvidia preps to sell its Vera CPUs into China as its GPU sales stay frozen — customers encouraged to place orders for CPU shipments as early as August

Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its Arm-based Vera server CPUs could be available as soon as August.

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AMD fires back at Nvidia, claiming 256-core Zen 6 ‘Venice’ CPU beats Vera by 3.3x in rack-level performance — company shares first estimated EPYC Venice benchmarks

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia’s Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.
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Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement — Team Blue claims 12% average jump in newly-supported titles

Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.

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Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible – why the CPU to GPU ratio is more important than ever for hyperscalers

The massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what’s driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.
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Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a temporary substitute for the delayed iAPX 432 project

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

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