Intel has finally revealed its long-awaited Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. Dubbed Core Ultra 200S Plus, Intel is introducing two new chips in its lineup, both of which come with a price cut compared to their non-Plus predecessors. The headline claim is 15% higher gaming performance at 1080p compared to stock Arrow Lake chips — a number that Intel says it gathered from a geomean of 38 games tested at 1080p with High settings, in a bid to earn a spot among the best CPUs for gaming.

If you’ve purchased one of the best RAM kits on the market, specifically a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory kit, and noticed the packaging looks dramatically different, there's no need to panic. Corsair has recently revamped the packaging across its Vengeance DDR5 lineup, adopting a new approach to combat retail scams and theft.

AMD appears to be fundamentally redesigning its CPU architecture for the upcoming Zen 6 chips, rather than making it a subset of Zen 5. As a part of those improvements, thanks to X user InstLatX64, we now know that AMD has finally adopted Intel's FRED instructions for its new silicon, along with fresh matrix multiplication and bit reversal instructions.

The first citing of a 10 P-core Bartlett Lake sample has emerged, with benchmark numbers giving us an idea of its potential performance. "X86 is dead&back" on X shared performance numbers of the new 10-core chip, allegedly dubbed the Core 7 253PE, compared to the Core i5-14400 featuring 26% greater multi-threaded performance despite having fewer cores.