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Microsoft has expanded Automatic Super Resolution, its NPU-driven upscaling feature built into Windows, to Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 chips, a capability previously exclusive to Qualcomm Snapdragon X devices. The feature aims to boost frame rates in games rendered at up to 1080p, with Microsoft citing gains of up to 15% in titles like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, targeting a 60 FPS threshold.
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A new open-source project called npunlock reconstructs a path for writing custom C kernels that run directly on the programmable SHAVE cores inside Intel's NPUs, bypassing Intel's official stack which only exposes graph-level programming. The project has been verified on Windows x64 with Meteor Lake and the NPU3720 chip, and its latest update adds support for combining independent FP32 and FP16 custom code branches within a single execution graph.
Newegg is selling the ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming desktop for $1,199.99 after applying the code SSF73826, down from a list price of $1,699.99. The build pairs an Intel Core i7-14700F with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a Zotac RTX 5060 Solo GPU with 8GB of VRAM, aimed at 1080p gaming.
Google opened preorders Monday for its new 'Googlebook' laptops starting at $899, offering a choice of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 or Snapdragon X Elite chips paired with NPUs for AI processing. The devices ship October 4 in the US and a day later in Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia, featuring deep integration of Google's Gemini assistant into the operating experience itself.
AMD's newly announced RX 9050 GPU exists in two very different versions sharing the same name: an 8GB retail card sold standalone in some markets, and a 4GB variant that can only be bought bundled inside prebuilt desktops. Testing found the 4GB model, discovered inside a $750 CyberPowerPC system from Best Buy, has half the memory bandwidth and significantly worse performance than the retail card most buyers would research online.
AMD has crossed a $1 trillion market valuation, becoming the fourth US chipmaker to hit that milestone after Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron. Its stock has nearly tripled in 2026, rising from around $223 in January to over $607 currently, fueled by strong AI-driven demand. Intel, despite a 208% year-to-date share gain, remains far behind with a market cap of about $643.5 billion.
ReBarUEFI is a UEFI DXE driver that can be injected into a system's firmware to enable Resizable BAR on boards that don't officially support the feature. It works by patching the PCI resource allocation process during boot and is paired with a companion tool, ReBarState, to set the BAR size, with a separate project called NvStrapsReBar covering older NVIDIA Turing GPUs.
Intel has stopped its long-running bug bounty program that paid researchers up to $100,000 per vulnerability, replacing it with a new Intigriti-hosted disclosure process that offers no financial rewards. The bounty board remains visible but is marked as suspended, and Intel has not publicly explained the decision. The program had run since 2017 and accounted for roughly 105 of 231 CVEs Intel patched in 2020.
YouTuber Bits und Bolts repaired a 25-year-old Intel Celeron 1200 (Tualatin) chip that had a missing data pin and destroyed pad, which prevented any system from booting with it installed. By exposing underlying copper layers, applying solder mask, and grafting a donor pin from a separate broken Tualatin chip, the creator restored full function to the CPU. After the repair, the chip was successfully overclocked by 33%.
AMD released a white paper expanding on its earlier performance claims for the upcoming EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, reiterating that a 96-core Venice chip is about 20% faster per-core than Nvidia's 88-core Vera on SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test. The paper also details throughput results showing the 256-core EPYC 9996 outperforming Intel's Xeon 6980P by 2.37x and Vera by 2.24x, plus a 78% generational gain over the prior 192-core EPYC 9965.
A growing cluster of leaks—including a partner slide detailing launch timing and platform specs, ASRock Z990 motherboards appearing in a shipping database, and SiSoftware listings for an HP EliteBook X with an unnamed Intel chip—point to Intel's next-generation Nova Lake processors nearing release. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has said the lineup will arrive in the second half of 2026, and executive Robert Hallock has called it one of the company's most important launches ever.