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AMD stock rose nearly 13% last week and briefly topped a $1 trillion market cap before falling back below that level on Monday, with shares up almost 30% in September. CNBC's Jim Cramer attributed the surge partly to Meta's launch of its Muse AI agent platform, saying rising demand for AI agents should boost CPU sales, a market he says AMD leads.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said rising oil prices and Treasury yields are squeezing markets, as seen Monday when the Dow fell 347 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each dropped roughly 0.8-0.9%. He argued investors should stay in stocks but grow more selective, pointing to Meta Platforms and Intel as companies with the demand, pricing power and scale to withstand higher rates tied to Middle East tensions.
Walmart has dropped the price of the Gigabyte Gaming A16 Pro gaming laptop to $1,799, down $461 from its previous low of $2,260. The 16-inch laptop features an Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU with 16GB VRAM, an Intel Core 7 240H processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, alongside a 165Hz WQXGA display. Stock is reported to be low.
Lenovo has launched the Googlebook 15, its first laptop in Google's new Googlebook line, at a starting price of $1,099.99 when it goes on sale October 4. That's $200 less than the $1,299 price Google had announced for the device last week. The laptop features a 15.3-inch 2.8K OLED touchscreen, an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 chip, 16GB or 32GB of RAM, and 256GB or 512GB of storage.
Newegg is selling an ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt gaming PC for $1,399.99, a $300 cut from its regular price. The system pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Best Buy is selling the HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop for $1,999.99, down from its $2,999.99 list price. The configuration on sale includes an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H processor, 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, an Nvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 8GB of VRAM, a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, and a 14-inch 3K OLED 120Hz display.
Apple's upcoming macOS 27, codenamed Golden Gate, will only run on Apple silicon Macs, cutting off every Intel-based MacBook. The cutoff includes 2020 MacBooks except for the M1 chip versions of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, meaning most MacBooks from 2021 onward remain supported. Users can check their chip type via the Apple menu's 'About This Mac' option.
Intel Foundry CTO Naga Chandrasekaran told KeyBanc that the upcoming 14A (1.4nm-class) process is expected to perform within 5% of TSMC's rival A14 node. The comparison did not specify whether 14A would be faster or slower than TSMC's node.
Walmart is selling a refreshed HP Omen 35L desktop with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU, an Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for $1,899.99. The same configuration lists for $3,639.99 on HP's own site, making the Walmart price over $1,700 cheaper.
Piper Sandler's research note says eight major US tech firms are evaluating Intel's upcoming 14A chip manufacturing process. None has committed to production contracts yet, but the firm says Intel needs to land an anchor customer by late 2026 or early 2027 ahead of a planned 2028 manufacturing ramp.
Walmart is selling a CyberPowerPC prebuilt gaming desktop for $1,549, down from $2,139. The system includes an Intel Core i7-14700KF processor, 32GB of 6000MHz DDR5 memory, an Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition GPU with 12GB VRAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and CyberPowerPC's MA-O1 case with RGB controls. It ships with a keyboard, mouse, and a one-year parts and labor warranty.
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.