But before it was a company that primarily manufactured bad news, Intel was mainly known for making and selling computer processors. And Intel is hearkening back to that heritage today by taking the wraps off of a new series of chips, codenamed Panther Lake, that will form the basis of its next-generation Core Ultra laptop CPU lineup.

Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips will be the fastest, most powerful, and most efficient chips ever for Windows PCs.

Built on the cutting-edge 18A process, the Panther Lake chips promise major leaps in performance, power efficiency, and on-device AI capabilities. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

That’s a lot riding on one piece of silicon when it arrives in late 2025 and early 2026! But what is Panther Lake, aka “Intel Core Ultra Series 3,” actually going to bring to a laptop or handheld near you?

With gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck and new Xbox Ally X proving how good portable PC gaming can be, gaming laptops need to step up.

OpenAI has announced a collaboration with chipmaker Broadcom to design its own AI computer chips. The companies plan to start deploying customized "AI accelerators" next year.

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.

TSMC CEO Jensen Huang was in the Valley on Friday to celebrate the TSMC Phoenix plant mass-producing important chips for AI.