An alleged AMD Ryzen 5 7600X "Zen 4" engineering sample (ES) has turned up on the Chinese black market, with the seller noting the CPU has a base clock of 4.4GHz, much lower than the retail specs. AMD ...

I have a Supermicro X11SCL-IF board currently running an i3-8100; I'm repurposing the system and could probably do with some extra CPU muscle onboard. If I want 6 or 8 cores I have to go to the ...

TL;DR: An ultra-rare Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 engineering sample, clocked at 4.0GHz, surfaced on Reddit, sparking interest as a possible employee loaner chip. This unreleased NetBurst ...

Why it matters: As we get closer to the official Raptor Lake reveal, some engineering samples are bound to find their way into the hands of prospective black market dwellers. An early version of the ...

A Reddit user hoping to buy a pair of used Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards has accidentally stumbled across some unique and far more capable GPUs. The twin RTX 3080 Ti GPUs are engineering samples ...

Officially speaking, AMD has not yet officially launched their Ryzen 5000G APUs. In fact, although I stand to be corrected, I don’t even think they’ve even gone as far as confirming they exist yet.

An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample has appeared in the PassMark benchmark database, but the listing raises more questions than it answers. The benchmark incorrectly identifies the processor as a 32 ...

SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Montage Technology, a leading data processing and interconnect IC design company, today announced that it has shipped the world’s first Gen3 registering clock driver (RCD or ...