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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
Intel May Unveil Refreshed Arrow Lake with Better Performance Before the Year is Out
Although Intel hasn't confirmed reports of an Arrow Lake refresh, rumors have circulated for months that we'd see one in the second half of 2025. Now that we're in July, a little more info on the possible refresh is available for the beleaguered CPU. As Wccftech points out, refreshed Intel CPUs typically get a bump in clock speed. That's the expectation for this refresh, which should provide somewhat better performance. But we doubt that Intel would bother with a refresh just for a faster clock—especially in this climate, where AI is everything and Arrow Lake is sadly lacking. At the moment, the Core Ultra 200S series doesn't quite provide the 13 TOPS needed for CoPilot PCs. Intel apparently plans to solve the AI problem for Arrow Lake by adding the NPU4 from Lunar Lake. As Wccftech notes, that could bring the refreshed CPU's TOPs performance to 48, giving it the AI muscle the chip needs. Nova Lake. Credit: Intel We won't know just how much performance improvement the refreshed CPU provides until the launch, but it sounds as though it will be a minor improvement bump. Gaming improvement, if any, will likely be minimal. That said, it's worth remembering that Intel already gave its Core Ultra 200 CPUs serious attention to gaming performance. When concerns arose shortly after the processor's launch in late 2024, Intel created a list of issues and set out a plan for addressing them. That included a brutal Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) problem that turned out to be an issue with some anti-cheat software, rather than Intel's hardware. Intel packed its fixes into BIOS updates and soon had its Arrow Lake CPUs providing much better gaming benchmark results. Intel quietly kept its attention on improving gaming performance for the CPUs and released a new overclocking profile in April, geared at making Arrow Lake a better processor for gaming and in general. So long as you have an unlocked CPU and Intel XMP-supporting memory modules, you can give your PC a decent performance boost in a matter of minutes. If Intel launches refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs this year, they might not have much time in the spotlight. Nova Lake desktop CPUs are on the way for 2026 with loads of cores, DDR5 8000 memory, and a chance to give Intel a win.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. According to a detailed post on X, Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPU will be getting over double the cores of its existing Arrow Lake chips. The top Core Ultra 9 model allegedly packs a staggering 52 cores. But it's arguably the mid-range Ultra 5 that's most interesting given it boasts more cores in every category than Intel's incumbent top desktop processor. The current Intel Core Ultra 9 285K has eight Performance and 16 Efficient cores. However, according to the X post, there will be a Nova Lake Core Ultra 5 model with eight Performance, 16 Efficient and another four Low Power Efficient cores. Meanwhile, the top Core Ultra 9 model crams in 16 Performance, 32 Efficient and four Low Power Efficient cores for that grand total of 52 cores. Even the very lowest end Nova Lake gets 12 cores, with a 4P, 4E and 4 LP-E split. If true, Nova Lake will be the biggest jump in raw CPU performance from Intel in some time. Intel's desktop chips have topped out at eight Performance cores since the Alder Lake generation launched back in late 2021. That generation also offered eight Efficient cores. But while the Raptor Lake follow-up boosted the E-Core count to 16 a year later, Intel hasn't increased core counts since. Indeed, Intel actually deprecated the total thread count when Arrow Lake arrived in October last year on account of removing support for HyperThreading, which enables Performance cores to support two software threads in parallel when present. Anyway, if these core counts are correct, the multi-threading performance of Nova Lake will be pretty epic. If Nova Lake also brings improved IPC from its Performance cores, thought to be codenamed Coyote Cove, and Efficient cores, codenamed Arctic Wolf, then the overall performance uptick could be spectacular. As for how this compares with AMD's future plans, it isn't totally clear. Various rumours point to anywhere from 12-core to 32-core chiplets in AMD's next-gen CPU plans using the upcoming Zen 6 architecture. The former would probably mean a 24-core top desktop CPU, the latter as many as 64 cores given AMD's top desktop CPU conventionally has two CPU core chiplets. However, the 32-core chiplet is probably based on the Zen 6c architecture with compact cores with the full Zen 6 chiplet topping out at either 12 or 16 cores. That would give total core counts of 24 and 32 respectively. With multithreading, you'd be looking at 48 or 64 threads. If you take a pessimistic view, that's 48 threads from 24 full fat Zen 6 cores versus 52 mixed cores from Intel. Game on. However you slice it, it certainly looks like desktop PCs will benefit from a very meaty upgrade when Nova Lake and Zen 6 arrive. Your next upgrade Best CPU for gaming: The top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game ahead of the rest. As for exactly when that will happen, we'd bank on late 2026 for Nova Lake in terms of a launch date with early 2027 a more realistic target for widespread availability. It's not yet clear what production node Intel will use for Nova Lake, with Intel's own 18A and 14A nodes, along with TSMC N2 all mooted as possibilities by various rumours. AMD's Zen 6, meanwhile, may be based on TSMC's N2 node when it arrives, likely in the second half of 2026. AMD has confirmed that the server variant of Zen 6 will definitely use TSMC's next-gen N2 node, which heavily implies, though doesn't absolutely guarantee, that Zen 6 for PCs will use the same technology. Anywho, the latter half of 2026 is certainly shaping up to be pretty exciting for the PC in terms of new CPUs.
Chicago Tribune
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke: Cook County has new tools in the fight for reproductive freedom
Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which overturned the federal protections for abortion that had been guaranteed to women for nearly 50 years. This ruling in Dobbs limited access to reproductive health care for millions of American women and has fundamentally changed the ability of women to make their own personal medical decisions. Nearly half the states in the country — including most of our Midwestern neighbors — have dramatically restricted abortion access. In Illinois, we have seen a 71% increase in women traveling from out of state to safely access reproductive health care services that remain available here. Illinois has been and will continue to be a refuge for women in need. As more women have come to Illinois to access reproductive health care, we have seen an increase in other groups coming here as well: those trying to thwart a women's right to choose, some of whom may be willing to resort to criminal actions in pursuit of that goal. This isn't a theoretical threat. Clinics in downstate Danville and Peoria were targeted by arsonists. In May, the bombing of a reproductive health facility in Palm Springs, California, destroyed the building and terrorized the community. We were again reminded of this danger in Minnesota, where a gunman assassinated a pro-abortion rights lawmaker and her husband and wounded another Democratic lawmaker and his wife. According to investigators, the man who has been charged in this shooting rampage had a lengthy list of other targets that included Planned Parenthood facilities and abortion rights advocates. The Cook County state's attorney's office is responding to this threat head-on by creating the Choice Protection Unit (CPU). The CPU brings together seasoned attorneys, investigators and victim/witness specialists from every division of our office. In addition to their current caseloads, these public servants have volunteered to participate in trainings, collaborate with experts, and stay abreast of current legal issues and legislative initiatives so that when these crimes are committed in Cook County, we will be prepared to successfully prosecute them with the full force of our office. The CPU will also monitor and analyze the evolving legal landscape so that we can respond swiftly and effectively as new threats and tactics emerge. The CPU has hit the ground running by developing strong connections with the providers, doctors and organizations that are increasingly threatened for doing their jobs. The anti-abortion rights movement does not limit its actions to criminal activity. Its adherents have also targeted providers with civil actions. As the legal representative for Cook County Health, my office needs to be in the best position to defend against these attacks on reproductive freedoms on the civil front as well. This past legislative session, we proposed state legislation that would ensure any violent attack on a reproductive health facility in Illinois is treated as what it is: an act of domestic terrorism. This change is a commonsense step toward providing reproductive health clinics the same protection we give to hospitals, namely by giving prosecutors a tool to seek the highest classification of charges with stiffer criminal penalties for those who commit acts of terror. This legislation addresses a very real need to provide clarity and accountability for those who terrorize our communities. However, some special interest groups and their legislative allies worked behind the scenes to block this bill before legislators ever had an opportunity to hear about its value and necessity. It could not be clearer that this legislation is urgently needed, given what has happened across the country, and I am hopeful state lawmakers will pass this vital legislation when they next reconvene. We need to have the tools to protect our community from violent extremism. The CPU is the first stand-alone unit of its kind across the country, and I hope it will be a model for other prosecutor's offices. We are certainly willing to share what we know and to collaborate with other district attorneys to learn what criminal conduct they are seeing, what legislation is helpful and how best to prepare for the cases that will be coming our way. Above all, I hope the creation of the CPU sends a strong message: In Cook County, we will not tolerate criminal actions that are designed to frighten and prevent women from exercising their right to choose. Here, women are entitled to seek and receive reproductive health care free from harassment, intimidation and other scare tactics — and we will prosecute those who commit crimes to interfere with the exercise of that right. Eileen O'Neill Burke is the Cook County state's attorney.
New Indian Express
20-06-2025
- New Indian Express
IIT graduate among 15 held in Telangana for circulating child porn
Gang targeted tribal women in remote areas During the probe that followed, another victim approached the police, stating she had been sold to a brothel in Madhya Pradesh for Rs 1.10 lakh. She managed to escape and return home last month. Police officials revealed that the gang specifically targeted tribal women from remote mandals such as Kerameri and Tiryani, where several women had been reported missing in recent years. Investigations confirmed that at least some of these women had been trafficked in a similar manner. This is not the first such case in the region. In 2015, two tribal women from Indravelly mandal were reportedly kidnapped and sold in Rajasthan. Asifabad police have registered cases against nine accused and arrested six of them so far. Those arrested include police constable Kameri Haridas (PC-1669), Pariki Pandla Vijaya Laxmi, Sathyamshetty Sujatha, Boire Panchapula, Taduri Usha and Durgam Sudhakar. Three others — Basher Ramesh Goud, Basher Surekha and Soni Jagadeesh — are absconding. Constable Haridas had previously been involved in a similar offence registered under Crime No. 30/2019 at Tiryani police station, Asifabad DSP (in-charge) Ramanujam said. Shielding KIDS 294 FIRs and 110 arrests since the CPU launch in February 2025; only 37 FIRs and 34 arrests recorded in the two years prior
Time of India
19-06-2025
- Time of India
IIT graduate among 15 held for watching, circulating child porn
Representative Image HYDERABAD: Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB)'s child protection unit (CPU) on Wednesday arrested 15 repeat offenders for watching, storing, and distributing Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM). Among the arrested is a 30-year-old IIT-Kharagpur graduate employed at a Hyderabad-based software firm, reports Mahesh Buddi. The accused were booked under relevant sections of the Information Technology Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. All of them are currently in judicial custody. The operation targeted individuals linked to 57 CSEAM complaints flagged by Interpol tip lines and routed through the Union home ministry. "All 15 were picked up in a single-day operation. These are repeat offenders linked to 34 previous cases, including 17 registered directly by TGCSB," said TGCSB director Shikha Goel. Among the accused, the IIT graduate allegedly earns Rs 35 lakh per annum and resides in Hyderabad with his wife and daughter. Another accused is an unemployed engineering graduate from Yadagirigutta with a prior CSEAM case. Others work in varied occupations, including automobile repair, construction, and retail sales. "The accused are aged between 19 and 50, mostly in their twenties, and largely from middle-class backgrounds. The children in the content appear to be aged between 6 and 14 years," Goel added.
