Intel Aims at AMD's Threadripper With its New Granite Rapids-WS CPU | Qualcomm's 18-Core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Dominates in First Benchmarks

Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU | Qualcomm's 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks | Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their AI chips Created for yeasinn1.tech@blogger.com | Web Version   September 30, 2025 FOLLOW US FOLLOW US   SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Big News Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU Chip armed with core count approaching the flagship AMD Threadripper 9995WX, boasts a 4.8GHz boost clock Qualcomm's 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192-bit bus look tough to beat More News Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their AI chips Companies tread carefully to avoid surprising Nvidia Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game 'Moscow military spy ship' tracked mapping and surveilling NATO undersea cables 'She's following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely CPUs EU pushes for Chips Act 2.0 investment as it looks set to miss global silicon production targets by a wide margin Seeks quadrupling of semiconductor investment as $50 billion initiative flounders Graphics OpenAI President teases our 10-billion GPU future Says always-working AI future calls for 'every person to have their own dedicated GPU' Laptops Mobile RTX 2070 with shunt mod nearly eclipses desktop performance 60W boost provides 15% performance uplift Components Sandisk launches officially licensed SSDs and MicroSD cards for the ROG Xbox Ally series Up to 4TB of storage for new Asus flagship handheld Legendary Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card revived by hardware enthusiast 1994 relic restored to former glory Follow Toms Hardware Contact Us: Feedback | Advertise Sign Up | Update Profile | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy | Terms and Conditions Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036