ISSUE 23.16 • 2026-04-20 Look for our BONUS issue on May 4, 2026!! SILICON By Matthew S. Smith Intel is back, baby … maybe? Once the undisputed king of CPUs, Intel entered a long, spiraling descent in the 2010s. This is a reality I know better than most, though (regrettably) not as well as some. […]

INTEL By Chris Hoffman Intel’s laptop CPUs just made a huge leap. New desktop chips are coming, too. At CES 2026 in January, I saw a lot of machines with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 hardware, also known as Panther Lake. Laptops with this hardware are already hitting the shelves. I’ve had my hands on […]

Intel has a lot riding on any announcement it makes these days, so its presentation about the new Core Ultra 3 Series processors at CES 2026, which began yesterday, is of importance. 14 models were introduced covering a wide range of configurations. These new chips have the Panther Lake architecture, and all are intended for […]