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Overclocker Luumi set a new HWBot world record for the Intel Core i5-4670K in Cinebench R11.5, scoring 10.8 cb on a multicore run and dethroning a record that had stood for 12 years. The Haswell-era quad-core chip was pushed to 6,301 MHz using liquid nitrogen cooling on an ASRock Z97 OC Formula board with 4GB of XPG DDR3 and a Corsair AXi 1600 power supply.
A new analysis compiles a series of publicly documented attacks against trusted execution environments (TEEs) from Intel SGX and AMD SEV, including Foreshadow, SGAxe, ÆPIC Leak, BadRAM and WireTap.fail. These attacks range from software bugs in enclave code, like a memory-safety flaw in Signal's contact discovery enclave, to hardware-level exploits that let attackers forge or steal remote attestation keys, sometimes using physical access to memory chips.
Tom's Hardware Premium published several subscriber-only stories this week, including a deep dive into Intel's EMIB and Foveros Direct 3D packaging roadmap aimed at building system-in-packages as small as 12 reticles. The outlet also interviewed modders who ported Nvidia's DLSS 5 and Multi Frame Generation features, officially limited to Blackwell GPUs, onto older graphics cards, and examined why Micro Center stores may offer better PC component deals than online retailers.
Corsair is now selling its 32GB (2x16GB) Vengeance RGB DDR5-5600 memory kit for $409, a $108 reduction, directly through its own store. The kit features CL40 latency, RGB lighting, and Intel XMP profiles, and has been confirmed as the cheapest currently available memory kit at this speed tier.
An explosion during a gas cylinder transfer at Intel's Fab 28 facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel killed two workers and left a third in serious condition, according to The Times of Israel. Police believe a gas cylinder malfunction involving nitrogen trifluoride, used to clean chipmaking equipment, caused the blast, and say there is currently no indication of criminal activity or negligence. Intel has not issued a statement on the casualties or any impact on production at the site.
Intel's advanced packaging methods, EMIB and Foveros, now underpin most of its client and data center CPUs after debuting with 2017's Kaby Lake-G chips. The company's roadmap shows the two technologies evolving to be both more sophisticated for high-end products and simplified for cost-sensitive ones, while increasingly working together alongside new process nodes. Intel's stated long-term goal is building system-in-package designs as large as 12 reticles combining EMIB with Foveros Direct 3D.
A leaked product table from LC Tech Leaks outlines seven upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop processors, topped by the Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC, with 'BFC' apparently denoting models that use Intel's large last-level cache technology across three product tiers. The list also shows a shift to four-digit model numbers and includes a 65W cache-heavy chip, the Core Ultra 9 4900 BFC, alongside standard non-BFC variants like the 4950K and 4850K.
Framework has refreshed its budget-oriented, repairable Laptop 12 with Intel's new Wildcat Lake processors, keeping the 2-in-1 convertible design, touchscreen with optional stylus, and multiple color options. The base model starts at $549 without RAM or storage, but a fully configured unit costs roughly $200-$300 more than rival laptops like Dell's updated XPS 13.
Framework has updated its budget-focused Laptop 12 with Intel's new Core Series 3 processors, offering configurations from a Core 3 304 chip with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD at $799 up to a Core 7 350 model with 32GB RAM at $1,549. Buyers can save $100 by choosing Fedora Linux instead of Windows, and pricing on all tiers has reportedly risen beyond the company's original targets.
Walmart is selling the Gigabyte Gaming A16 Pro laptop for $1,449, featuring a 16-inch 2560x1600 IPS display, Intel's Core 7 240H processor, a mobile RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 12GB VRAM, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The machine also includes HDMI 2.1, USB-C with DisplayPort, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2.
Modern AI upscaling tools from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel—DLSS 4.5, FSR 4 and XeSS—now render games at lower internal resolutions before using deep learning to upscale them, delivering image quality comparable to native resolution while significantly boosting frame rates. NVIDIA's DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation can push frame rates past 200fps in titles like Hogwarts Legacy using its x6 modifier, though the writer notes it introduces noticeable input latency, while earlier x2 and x3 modifiers perform well with fewer visual artifacts.
A researcher investigating an Intel-documented x86 instruction called vfmaddrnd231pd found it does not actually exist on real hardware. The instruction, which purportedly allowed per-instruction rounding control for fused multiply-add operations, is absent from GNU assembler and lacks corresponding intrinsics in both ICC and Clang, and attempting to execute its hand-assembled opcode on a Haswell CPU triggers an undefined instruction fault.