Anytime a new platform with processors and mainboards are in the works you can bet that there are engineering samples of the parts floating around well in advance of the CPU actually hitting stores.

An alleged AMD Ryzen 5 7600X "Zen 4" engineering sample (ES) has turned up on the Chinese black market, with the seller noting the CPU has a base clock of 4.4GHz, much lower than the retail specs. AMD ...

Intel is about to launch its new 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPUs and like the rumor mill does each time, we get news of future generation processors in the lead-up to the latest ones ...

An image of an Intel Meteor Lake-S LGA-1851 CPU engineering sample, a canceled SKU, has been disclosed. This desktop CPU is part of the now-discontinued Meteor Lake-S desktop platform. Despite its ...

Up to this point, everything AMD has said indicates the company is still on track to launch its upcoming Zen 3 processors this year, despite the recent Ryzen 3000 "XT" refresh that led to rumors of a ...

We have been hearing about CPU/GPU hybrids for a long time now. One of the parts that we have heard of before is the Llano from AMD. AMD has announced that it is set to start sampling the Llano to ...

Recently, an Intel 13th Generation Core CPU was evaluated. The future K-series CPU will be a 24-core, 32-thread processor with no power limits. This is not a retail processor, but rather a qualifying ...

LONDON — Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has announced that it is sampling dual-CPU Snapdragon processors that operate at up to 1.2-GHz in clock frequency. Targeted at enabling high-end smartphones ...

In brief: Geekbench 5 scores for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S CPU have turned up online. The benchmarks are sub-stellar but not unexpected from an early engineering sample (ES). Mostly the sighting ...

Long-gone in the UK, Yahoo Auctions is still a busy buying/selling portal in some parts of Asia. In Japan, a mysterious CPU has been listed upon this eBay rival, claimed to be an Intel Core i9-9900T.