CES is a big show for PC makers and laptops. Most major Windows PC brands—aside from Microsoft—use it as the launchpad for their yearly refreshes. This remained true at CES 2026, though the tone of the show was notably more humble than in the past.

The new Intel Core i5-14490F processor features 10 cores and 16 threads, which is split into 6 P-Cores and 4 E-Cores, which uses different silicon compared to the Core i5-14400 processor, silicon that's most likely sourced from higher-end SKUs. Read more ...

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, processor manufacturers raced to offer processors with ever-increasing clock speeds, which more or less equaled performance. Then, when clock speeds hit a wall at about 4 GHz due to a variety of factors, they took a ...

It was all the way back in August of 2014 that Intel officially launched its Haswell-E based Core i7 series processors and its companion X99 chipset. At the time of its release, Haswell-E’s top of the line, 8-core Core i7-5960X was easily the most ...

TL;DR: Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 300 series "Arrow Lake Refresh" CPUs will feature higher clock speeds up to 6.0GHz, boosting gaming performance by 5-10%. While faster than current Zen 5 chips, they won't surpass AMD's Zen 5+ X3D processors in multi ...