CES may have started out as the Consumer Electronics Show, but it has never been solely about consumers. That was true before the AI boom, and it’s even more true today. Jaded tech journalists who’ve prowled the halls for a decade (and usually more) don’t want to hear the AI talk, but the topic is so pervasive at the event that even hopeful skeptics can turn to cynicism.

The AMD Ryzen 5 5800X — launched on November 5, 2020 — recently hit the top spot in Amazon UK’s list of best-selling CPUs. The refreshed 5800XT, which arrived in July last year, is likewise in the top ten most popular processors in Amazon US, with the chip sitting in fourth place.

The computer manufacturer Framework has announced price increases of up to 50% for DDR5 memory upgrades on the company's Framework Laptop DIY Edition—the price adjustment results from the ongoing memory shortage

Intel faces serious threat in the laptop market, not just from its nemesis AMD but also Qualcomm and Apple, thanks to the arrival of high-performance, highly efficient ARM cores that have forced the chipmaker to up every part of its game to compete.

Micro Center just launched a brand-new gaming PC featuring the new AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D. The 7500X3D is seemingly the most affordable X3D chip from the Ryzen 7000 series

Apple's processors are notorious for their high performance when running in their native environments: macOS and iOS. However, an experiment conducted by NPacific, a Chinese enthusiast (via HXL), shows that Apple's latest M5 processor can destroy high-end CPUs from AMD and Intel while running Windows 11 in virtualization mode.

A cross-institutional research team has published a paper where a breakthrough in (MRAM) development is detailed.

The Ryzen 3 5100 is among the processors known to exist but not previously observed in person. That situation has now changed, as hardware leaker momomo_us has shared a photograph confirming the existence of the Ryzen 3 5100, which was previously regarded as a unicorn in hardware circles.

Intel's 14A manufacturing technology (1.4nm-class) technology — the company's first fabrication process that was designed both for Intel and its foundry customers from the ground up

Efforts to commercialize UltraRAM have made significant strides forward. Quinas Technology, the firm behind UltraRAM, has been busy working alongside advanced wafer products maker