Report: Intel Cancels Flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus “Arrow Lake Refresh,” But Keeps Other SKUs

Intel’s “Arrow Lake Refresh” has not even been released, but the company has already canceled its flagship SKU planned for this refresh cycle, according to a report from VideoCardz. Two sources close to the media note that Intel’s flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus might not roll out at all, despite the massive hype and … Read more

Intel Xeon 600 processors for workstations launch

Intel looking to take on AMD Threadripper Pro with up to 86 cores, fast MRDIMM memory, and a unified Xeon 600 stack Intel has launched its Xeon 600 Series processors for workstations, bringing the Granite Rapids architecture to desktops designed for heavy compute workloads such as simulation, rendering, and AI development. The new chip family … Read more

Intel’s Panther Lake Chips Aren’t Just Good—They Beat Apple’s M5

As you can see, these two new Intel chips now sit at the top of the stack in terms of multi-core performance. And when it comes to the X9 388H, it’s by a healthy margin. Coming back with a chip that outperforms Apple’s latest M5 by 33 percent is no easy feat, but Intel pulled … Read more

Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus in MSI Laptop Stomps 285HX in Leaked PassMark Run

Despite no-showing at CES 2026, leaks still predict that Intel will launch the Arrow Lake Refresh mobile CPUs sometime in March or April 2026, and one of the CPUs slated to launch then is the mobile flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, which has incidentally showed up in a recent PassMark CPU benchmark (via X86isdeadandback … Read more

Apple Leaves Behind Another MacBook Air

Newly redesigned MacBook Air laptops are seen displayed during the WWDC at Apple Park on June 06, … More 2022 kicked off the annual WWDC22 developer conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images With the next version of macOS expected to debut during WWDC 20205 in June, Apple will leave behind several older deskbound … Read more

iPhone 17 rumor: A18 versus A19 chip

Renders of possible iPhone 17 designs based on previous leaks A leaker has broken from the pack, and is now saying that the core iPhone 17 will stick with the already released A18 chip, while the rest of the line gets chips derived from the A19. It’s generally accepted by the vast majority of leakers … Read more

Cyan brings its Myst Trilogy to modern Macs, the Mac App Store

Myst and its two sequels are all now native Apple Silicon games — image credit: Cyan The development house behind such classic games as Myst and Riven has released the full trio of titles as Apple Silicon native apps, now available on the Mac App Store for the first time. Cyan has created new “2.0” … Read more

Intel unveils new Arc Pro GPUs & Gaudi 3 accelerators for AI

Intel has introduced new GPUs for professionals and AI developers and announced wider availability for its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators. The company unveiled the Intel Arc Pro B60 and Arc Pro B50 GPUs, expanding the Arc Pro product family for AI inference and professional workstation use. These new graphics cards feature Intel’s Xe2 architecture, combining … Read more

Everything Qualcomm Announced at Its Computex 2025 Keynote in 19 Minutes

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Qualcomm may be best known for powering smartphones, but at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, the US chip vendor came to talk about Windows PCs and its play for a market that’s … Read more

EU iPhone users could soon replace Siri with other assistants

Siri may become only an optional voice assistant in the EU Apple is reportedly preparing to allow iPhone users in the EU to select third-party voice assistants to be the default, instead of Siri. Apple has tried hard to deal with the regulatory changes in the European Union, such as the Digital Markets Act … Read more