Z890 motherboards on the list

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn suggesting that overclocking of  Chipzilla's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop processors will only be officially supported on the top-tier Z890 motherboards.

A New Battlemage contender

An Intel designer tools webpage has unveiled the existence of the BMG-G31 discrete GPU die.

Shown to partners

Intel is organising a series of events for distributors and board partners to present and discuss its forthcoming LGA-1851 platform. It has revealed a few things it is not telling the great unwashed yet.

Fixing a single issue with Pugentbench benchmark

Intel has released its latest Arc Graphics WHQL driver, version 101.5592, fixing a single issue seen with the Pugentbench benchmark.

Is it? Isn’t it?

There is some confusion over whether Intel’s Lunar Lake chips are going to be delayed.

Support for Destiny 2: The Final Shape and Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree

Intel has released its latest Arc Graphics WHQL driver, version 101.5590, adding Game On support for Destiny 2: The Filan Shape and Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree games. The new driver also brings some minor game performance optimizations and fixes some issues.

Chipzilla’s first significant CPU

Intel’s first significant CPU based in x86 turns 45 today.

Computex 2024: Plenty of Intel Z890 motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor

While Intel did not confirm the official launch date of the upcoming Arrow Lake-S CPUs, it has now reported that these Core Ultra 200 desktop chips could launch in October. There were plenty of Intel next-gen chipset motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor and some motherboard makers have even revealed the Z890 name.

Foveros packaging at its best with new P- and E-cores, Intel Thread Director, new NPU, and Arc Xe2 GPU

Intel has shed more details about its Lunar Lake architecture during the Tech Tour event, including details about all the improvements it will bring to the new Core Ultra mobile processors. This is an extensive list that includes new Lion Cove P-cores, Skymont E-cores, new NPU, the Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPU, and enhancements to the Intel Thread Director, all neatly packaged into a single-tiled SoC.

Hardwired into the SoC

Starting with its upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPU series, Intel will install memory into the processor SoC itself, offering only 16GB or 32GB initially. This will mean the end of user-replaceable RAM, at least for this series of chips.