CPU and Processor Pulse

Server CPU Launches

• 🔥 EPYC Venice Arrival: AMD's EPYC Venice Zen 6 processor on TSMC 2nm launches Wednesday at the Advancing AI 2026 conference...

AMD's EPYC Venice arrives this week on TSMC's 2nm node with a full architectural redesign, 33% more cores, and PCIe 6 support. The new SP7 platform...

• 10-core Arrow Lake design pairs 6 Lion Cove P-cores (3.3-4.9 GHz) with 4 Skymont E-cores (2.7-4.4 GHz)
• Geekbench 6.5 results: 2825 single-core,...

Snapdragon X2 chips deliver surprising wins over the Core Ultra 9 386H, posting higher Geekbench single-core scores (3,219–3,771 vs 2,870) and...

AMD engineers have submitted patches adding AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support to GCC, including cpuid detection, builtins, and intrinsics for AI-focused data...

Apple developed an M3 Extreme chip with double the CPU and GPU cores of the M3 Ultra for a high-end Mac Pro, but canceled it over production costs and limited demand, accelerating the product's discontinuation.

TSMC confirms agentic AI drives a second CPU demand vector in AI data centers, incremental to accelerators, with x86, Arm, and RISC-V all its...

• Ryzen 7 7700X3D launched at $329 but now sells for $279 via Newegg promo code.
• Creates $120 gap versus Ryzen 7 7800X3D, improving value for pure...

Nvidia's RTX Spark ARM engineering sample scores 5,771 multi-core and 540 single-core in Cinebench 2026 on a Surface Laptop Ultra prototype, matching...

New patches remove x86 restrictions from the WMI driver, enabling ACPI-based support for Windows-on-ARM laptops on AArch64. This advances...

Intel's Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs launch as Core Ultra 400 series across four staggered waves in 2027, skipping Series 3 entirely for desktops.

• Wave...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Launch

• 🔥 New Budget 3D V-Cache CPU: AMD released the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, an 8-core Zen 4 processor with 104MB cache and 120W...

AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D launches at $329 as an 8-core Zen 4 chip with 104MB cache and 4.5GHz boost, targeting gamers on AM5.

• Gaming edge: Delivers 9%...

The cheapest Snapdragon X2 Plus surprised testers most by matching Elite models in everyday CPU tasks, with minimal real-world differences despite benchmark gaps. Its efficiency edge makes it the standout pick for most users.

European CPU Milestones

• 🔥 EPI Project Conclusion: The European Processor Initiative concluded on July 1-2 2026 with Rhea1 silicon successfully...

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AWS Graviton5 delivers strong generational gains and undercuts both competitors on price, outperforming Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids while falling...

• Bullish case: AMD hit $900B market cap again, needing just 25% more to reach $1T as Venice launches July 22.
• Analyst split: Goldman, Stifel see...

Intel presents a stronger near-term investment case than TSMC for AI chip manufacturing exposure.

• Revenue growth: Intel's AI-driven businesses (60%...

Samsung delayed mass production of its CXL 3.1 CMM-D 3.0 module to 2026 after Intel pushed Diamond Rapids to mid-2026 and the broader PCIe 6.0...