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Exclusive: Intel to unveil Arc Pro B70 and B65 “Big Battlemage” cards on March 25, specs confirmed videocardz.com/newz/exclusive…

Intel to Raise PC CPU Prices by 10%, Adding to PC Manufacturers’ Cost Burden Intel plans to raise prices on its PC central processing units (CPUs) by 10%. With profitability already under pressure from soaring memory semiconductor prices, the upcoming increase in CPU prices — another core component — is expected to further weigh on PC manufacturers’ production costs. According to industry sources on the 19th, Intel has notified major customers that it intends to raise PC CPU prices by the end of this month. The price hike is said to cover most of the key products across Intel’s diverse CPU lineup. The move is seen as Intel’s effort to protect margins amid a supply-demand imbalance, as surging demand for AI data center semiconductors has reduced the supply available for consumer products. The CPU, which serves as the brain of a PC and determines processing speed and performance, is a critical component. Intel holds approximately 70% of the PC CPU market. While AMD and Qualcomm are also expanding their PC CPU supply, Intel’s dominance remains overwhelming. Against this backdrop, Intel’s price hike is particularly damaging to PC manufacturers, as rising production costs will sharply deteriorate their profitability. Memory prices — another essential PC component alongside CPUs — are also seeing unprecedented surges, driven by memory supply shortages stemming from expanded AI infrastructure investment. According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, memory prices rose by as much as 180% quarter-over-quarter in Q1. PC manufacturers are now on high alert as prices for essential components spike. An industry official noted, “The biggest concern for manufacturers right now is the rapidly rising cost of components. There are fears that if Intel CPU prices rise on top of everything else, operating profits will fall sharply and companies will struggle to stay afloat.” Major PC makers are responding to the crisis by diversifying their supply chains and increasing the proportion of higher-value AI PCs in their product mix — a strategy aimed at defending profitability through greater sales of premium products. However, since memory prices are expected to remain elevated through next year, PC manufacturers’ difficulties are likely to deepen further. Rising component costs are also expected to feed through into higher PC retail prices, increasing the burden on consumers. Separately, market research firm TrendForce projected that if memory and CPU prices rise simultaneously, the combined share of these two components in notebook BOM (bill of materials) costs could reach as high as 58%. It added that memory price increases alone could push retail prices for standard laptops up by more than 30%, and that with the additional CPU price hike, total price increases could approach 40%.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ $INTC

Intel will not enable Precompiled Shader for Arc Alchemist GPUs videocardz.com/newz/intel-wil…

@Duoae Actually, not at all. I link to anything that might be useful – pros and cons. Useful links are welcome.

@3DCenter_org Too keen to jump on the hate bandwagon with little to no info like pretty much everyone else?

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Nvidia DLSS vs AMD FSR vs Intel XeSS — everything you need to know about the three main GPU vendor technologies. wccftech.com/roundup/nvidia…

@3DCenter_org Definitely a RTX60 feature, they announced so early because: - Competition closing the gap, must renew perception of RTX way ahead - AI hype pumping - Rally devs to integrate it early, reviewers/users to want it, so when RTX60 launches there's already some games supporting it

Over the past three months (Dec 2025 to Feb 2026), Amazon USA sold just 47% of the volume of processors it sold during the same period last year. This represents a very significant loss of units volume (a trend also evident among other retailers). 3dcenter.org/news/news-des-…

Hypothesis: Maybe, DLSS5 was originally intended as the main feature for the (now delayed) RTX 60 series. That series could therefore include dedicated hardware units to accelerate DLSS5. The performance requirements of DLSS5 should then become manageable with the RTX 60 series.

OptiScaler update brings FSR 4 INT8 support to RDNA 2 on newer Radeon drivers videocardz.com/newz/optiscale…

Nvidia’s Rubin CPX is off the roadmap, replaced by Groq LPUs for inference, but may return with Feynman in 2028. wccftech.com/nvidia-rubin-c…

NVIDIA DLSS 5 reveal trailer reportedly gets just 16% positive ratings videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-dl…

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Analysis: A closer look at DLSS 5 in RE9: Visual differences in base textures vs. DLSS output on Grace's model by Tamerito @ Reddit old.reddit.com/r/hardware/com…

Crimson Desert mit Raytracing, DLSS 4.5 sowie FSR 4 samt Ray Regeneration im Technik-Test: Werden die hohen Erwartungen erfüllt? pcgameshardware.de/Crimson-Desert…

We tested 40 GeForce and Radeon GPUs in Crimson Desert. youtube.com/watch?v=sVEdBA…

Testing CPU scaling in Crimson Desert — X3D wins, but not by much, and Raptor Lake shines tomshardware.com/pc-components/…

Crimson Desert im Test: Benchmarks, Analysen und Tipps für hohe oder hübsche FPS computerbase.de/artikel/grafik… #CrimsonDesert

Samsung is reportedly looking for customers eager to enter into 'multi-year' memory contracts by offering a slight discount at the outset. wccftech.com/samsung-is-lur…

AMD Medusa Point leak shows 10-core Zen 6 APU beating Ryzen AI 9 365 in Geekbench multi-core videocardz.com/newz/amd-medus…

New! Ryzen 7 9750X, 120W, 8C16T, 32MB L3 cache, 5.6/4.2GHz Ryzen 5 9650X, 120W, 6C12T, 32MB L3 cache, 5.5/4.3GHz