Three 9th gen Core series CPUs, Z390, and Core X-series

There been a trove of leaks regarding Intel's upcoming 9th generation Core Coffee Lake-S Refresh CPUs and the latest one suggest the rumored SKU trio could launch in October, alongside the Z390 chipset motherboards and the Basin Falls Refresh Core-X series CPUs.

Financial community got it wrong

After Intel announced that it had to delay its 10nm production to 2019,  financial analysts around the world reacted with negative stock comments and valuation. Most of them got things wrong. Intel with its $17 billion highest ever revenue showed magnificent growth in the data center and it made that $17 billion without 10nm.

Intel Core i7-9700K already is missing it

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Chipzilla is dumping hyperthreading. 

Things are getting better at Intel all the time

The second most important semiconductor company in the world,  Intel (ticker: INTC),  declared results for its second financial quarter and things apparently have never been better, even - or perhaps because - it lost a CEO during the quarter.

"Coffee Lake" SoCs

Intel has released its pre-built NUC desktops based around its newer  8th generation "Coffee Lake" SoCs.

Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K

Intel is gearing up to launch its 9th generation Core CPUs, which are slated to bring more performance, mostly to higher core counts and higher clock speeds. The leak shows the Core i9-9900K. the Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K, which was previously confirmed accidentally by Intel.

Kills support for DirectX 9

Blizzard has recently released its latest Battle for Azeroth pre-patch for World of Warcraft, which has both finally added support for DirectX 12 as well as killed support for DirectX 9.

CEO disease is catching

The CEO of Texas Instruments (TI) has resigned because he has violated the company's code of conduct rules.

Brings fixes and improvements for several games

While you might not get a high FPS on extreme resolutions, Intel's iGPUs still hold a high percentage on Steam hardware survey, so there are plenty of users playing games on it, therefore it is good to see that Intel has started to more actively update its graphics drivers and bring support and bug fixes, including the latest Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 10 version 24.20.100.6194.

Haunting which cannot be exorcised 

Two security boffins have found details about the new Spectre-class vulnerabilities,  –  Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2.