At a glance Top AMD mini PC deal picks GMKtec M8—$390 (19% off on Amazon) GMKtec K8 Plus—$810 (14% off on Amazon) Geekom AI A7 Max—$699 (26% off on Amazon) Top Intel mini PC deal picks Acemagic M1—$560 (30% off on Amazon) Kamrui Hyper H2 Mini—$540 (34% off on Amazon) Acemagic M5—$550 (31% off on
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ECS Liva has announced a bunch of new mini PCs at CES 2026. Ranging from ultra-compact units with six-watt Intel Twin Lake chips to powerful octa-core Hawk Point APUs, ECS Liva appears to be all set to cater to consumers and businesses with varying compute requirements. First up, we have the Liva Z4 mini PC
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Microsoft has introduced a new device category with Copilot+. Only laptops with a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), at least 16 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe SSD fulfil the minimum requirements. Intel is addressing these requirements with the Core Ultra series, which combines classic CPU cores with GPU acceleration and a hardwired NPU…
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Analysts think Intel’s commentary signaled openness to cutting its foundry business later on, but, for now, there’s uncertainty around the company’s future…
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How are Intel’s customers weathering tariffs and a possible recession? By buying Intel’s older products, and not its latest chips. Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner told analysts on Thursday that Intel sold more volume in its Raptor Lake chips than Lunar Lake, suggesting that customers preferred the higher-performance Raptor Lake chips that debuted in
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Newly appointed Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan said all the right things in his opening statement as Intel’s new chief executive, pledging to earn customer trust and return to an engineering-based culture at the chipmaker. Tan, who has served about two weeks on the job, didn’t indicate any major changes would be forthcoming…
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At a glanceExpert’s Rating Pros Fast frame rates at high visual quality settings 12GB memory and bandwidth for 1440p gaming Low, low $249 price Superb ray tracing for price class (beats RTX 4060) Bugs and performance oddities from 1st-gen Arc GPUs have been fixed Uses standard 8-pin power connector XeSS in over 150 games Well-designed…
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Intel is suffering through one of its worst periods as it attempts to play catchup in the AI era against the likes of Nvidia, the dominant AI chipmaker with a $3 trillion market capitalization…
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Intel said Thursday that the company will lay off more than 15 percent of its workforce, layoffs that were forced upon it by unused manufacturing capacity and charges associated with the launch of its AI PCs. Intel positioned it as part of the “next phase of its multiyear transformation strategy,” but the cuts are fairly
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