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The benchmark results are in. After testing the 2025 MacBook Pro with Apple's M5 CPU, here's my in-depth, side-by-side ...

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A new entry in the Geekbench 6 database has turned up another example of Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake mobile silicon, and ...

They put the Core Ultra X7 358H and Ultra X5 338H through their paces in Cinebench and found that they actually perform worse ...

Chip startup Efficient Computer Corp. exited stealth mode in 2024 with a $16 million seed funding round with the announcement of its first computer processor, the E0 system-on-chip (SoC) for ...

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, have been the only significant producers of central processing units for personal computers since the advent of the PC segment in the 1980s ...

The cream of the crop of AMD processors today is the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, a high performance quad-core part with a modest price tag. Amazingly, this 3.4GHz quad-core that features a 6MB L3 ...