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Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — 'Core 3 304' is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

Wildcat Lake is the successor to Twin Lake, which itself was a refresh of Alder Lake-N. These are ultra-budget CPUs aimed at embedded devices, cheap laptops, mini-PCs, NAS devices, and more, where efficiency is key. The Core 3 304 is part of the Wildcat Lake family and represents a huge jump over its predecessors in early Geekbench results.

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US Senators call for a halt to Nvidia GPU exports in the wake of the Super Micro scandal — looming Chip Security Act may put a wrench into Huang's China ambitions

As the Super Micro smuggling scandal unfolds, U.S. senators have urged the government to halt Nvidia GPU exports to China, as the Foreign Affairs Committee prepares the Chip Security Act, which will impose location tracking for all exported AI accelerators.

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Super Micro shareholders sue company over securities fraud after AI chip smuggling bust — furious investors claim company concealed dependence on illicit sales to China

Supermicro shareholders argue that the company committed securities fraud because it did not tell them that illegal activities made up a huge portion of its sales and that it had issues with export controls compliance.

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Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips — damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to ‘act as pass through partner for customers in China’

One Chinese and two U.S. citizens have been charged of conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations after they attempted to order servers containing controlled chips for export to Thailand on paper, but with China as the intended final destination.

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Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk's TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, according to Bernstein.

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Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking performance from new Core Ultra 200S Plus chips — says Intel's IPC boosting Binary Optimization Tool modifies scores in 'unclear' fashion

The team behind Geekbench 6 has warned users about benchmarking inconsistency with Intel's latest iBOT tool found in the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus. Geekbench 6 can't identify when iBOT is enabled or disabled during benchmark runs.

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