GoKawiil - Tech News

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Enthusiast digs into CPU substrate for surgery to replace ripped-off data pin — resurrected chip boots and hits 33% overclock (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Mark Tyson | get Hakko FX888D soldering station → | tags: intel celeron 1200, tualatin, cpu repair

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Enthusiast digs into CPU substrate to replace ripped-off data pin — resurrected chip boots and hits 33% overclock (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Mark Tyson | get Hakko FX888D soldering iron station → | tags: intel celeron 1200, tualatin, cpu repair

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Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | get Apple MacBook Pro M-series 14 inch laptop → | tags: apple m6 pro, geekbench 7, single-core cpu

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AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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AMD shares first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, targets Nvidia — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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Arm CEO says he's more confident its new AI chip can meet a loftier $2B revenue goal (cnbc.com)

2026-09-16 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: arm holdings, agi cpu, rene haas

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A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get Garmin GPSMAP 66i handheld GPS → | tags: 486-sx cpu, gps mapping, hipparchus library

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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: fujitsu, fujitsu-monaka, cpu

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Doing Everyone Else's Job (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: intel, microsoft compiler, 32-bit cpu

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Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: ebpf, policy caching, lsm hook

11.

iPhone 18 Pro offers three times the cooling performance (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-09 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Razer Phone Cooler Chroma → | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, vapor chamber

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Intel reportedly set to hike CPU prices by 10% ahead of 'major annual product' launch in March 2027 — report says AMD will follow up between June and July (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-08 | by Jake Roach | get AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D → | tags: intel, amd, cpu prices

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HWiNFO lets you see exactly what your PC hardware is doing (techspot.com)

2026-09-08 | get Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste → | tags: hwinfo64, cpu temperature, vrm temperatures

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Intel's CPUs could get 10% more expensive next month (techspot.com)

2026-09-08 | by Rob Thubron | get Intel Core Ultra 7 265K → | tags: intel, cpu prices, lip-bu tan

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Intel CPUs are reportedly getting a 10 percent price hike in October (theverge.com)

2026-09-08 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Intel Core i5-14600K processor → | tags: intel, cpu prices, digitimes

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Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Visit Profile | tags: nec v20, 8088 microcode, martypc

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Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X launches in October for laptops and desktops — 18 or 20 CPU cores, paired with 5,120 or6,144 CUDA cores, up to 128GB of unified memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-03 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get NVIDIA DGX Spark → | tags: nvidia, rtx spark n1x, grace cpu

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Lenovo details its RTX Spark laptops — Yoga Pro 9n and Yoga 9n 2-in-1 get full specs, stylus support (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-03 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 laptop → | tags: lenovo, yoga pro 9n, nvidia rtx spark

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Intel's Core Ultra 400 'Nova Lake' launch schedule leaks out — mass production in Q4, first Nova Lake CPUs in Q1 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-03 | by Anton Shilov | get Intel Core Ultra 9 285K → | tags: intel, nova lake, core ultra 400

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Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | get Apple MacBook Air 13 inch M4 → | tags: linux, asahi linux, apple silicon

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Desktop CPU Sales Are in the Toilet, but You Already Know Who’s Really Screwed (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-25 | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32GB 6000 kit → | tags: cpu, ram, monitors

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CPU-Z version 3 adds PC health checks to the classic system information tool (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | get Noctua NH-D15 CPU cooler → | tags: cpu-z, validator v3, pc health checks

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Nvidia’s GB300-powered DGX Station desktop tower listed for nearly $100,000 online — Enterprise AI powerhouse now available to buy for mere mortals with lots of cash (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Hassam Nasir | get NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit → | tags: nvidia, dgx station, gb300 superchip

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Enthusiast mods GTX 1080 Ti with a dual-tower CPU cooler, sees up to 32°C reduction in temps — Mod yields 30W power savings and 9% higher FPS (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Hassam Nasir | get Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE → | tags: gtx 1080 ti, asus strix, trashbench

25.

The End of an Athlon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | by Posted On | get ArctiClean thermal material remover kit → | tags: amd, athlon, cpu damage

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CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Aaron Klotz | tags: cpu-z, xoc, amd

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Alibaba shares fall 5% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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Alibaba shares fall 3% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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Intel's next flagship CPU could be the 28-core Core Ultra 9 4950K (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: intel core ultra 9 4950k, nova lake, cpu-z

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You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: amd, ryzen 9 9950x3d2, thermal grizzly