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You can get your hands on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D today if you bundle it with other components
By Stewart Bendle published
Deals Get your hands on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D by picking up a Newegg bundle combo.
Rare Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips emerge in bundles starting at $639
By Hassam Nasir published
Looking for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D? Newegg has it bundled with select motherboards at MSRP.
Intel retires Alder Lake mobile CPUs, excluding HX-series
By Hassam Nasir published
Intel is discontinuing its12th Generation Alder Lake mobile family excluding the HX-grade counterparts.
Arm crafts plan to raise prices by up to 300%
By Anton Shilov published
Arm intends to sell more prêt-à-porter designs to increase its average selling prices, court documents seen by Reuters reveal.
Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D — AMD comments on supply for the new king of gaming CPUs
By Stewart Bendle last updated
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is AMDs latest CPU release, but where can you pick one up, and are they in stock?
Best CPU deals 2025: Save on AMD and Intel
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We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.
Qualcomm hires Intel's Xeon architect to lead development of server CPUs
By Anton Shilov published
Sailesh Kottapalli to lead development of Qualcomm's server processors.
China's SpacemiT develops 64-core RISC-V datacenter CPU on 12nm
By Anton Shilov published
SpacemiT's VitalStone V100 has 64-cores, but its single-thread performance is comparable to that of 2011 processors.
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