Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the over two decades that I’ve been covering the PC space, I ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors have proven popular with budget laptop, Chromebook, and mini PC makers since they first debuted nearly two years ago. These chips are basically what you get if you take ...

I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro and am idly speculating some of the configs on the new 13” and 16” models. The processor in my 15” is a 2.8 GHz quad-core i7 (the “Haswell” generation). The new 13” can ...

Intel officially has its AI laptop chips in the race to take on AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm combined with new, more powerful integrated Intel Arc graphics. I've been reviewing hardware and software, ...

With that in mind, let's compare this fresh Panther Lake leak against AMD's current flagship mobile part, the Ryzen AI Max+ ...

In the coming months, you'll be swamped with new laptop processors from AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm. Strix Point, Lunar Lake, x86 vs. Arm, integrated GPUs, NPUs for AI workloads, and on-package memory ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...

AMD has been unafraid to push back against the long-standing dominance of Intel in the CPU arena by talking up both the value-per-dollar and high-end performance delivered by their latest Ryzen ...