Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: improved V/F curve and more efficiency cores compared to Alder Lake and highly competitive with AMD Zen 4 (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

AnandTech:
Review of AMD’s new $699 Ryzen 9 7950X, built on Zen 4 with 16 cores: blistering single- and multi-threaded performance and efficiency helps beat Intel’s chips  —  Back at CES 2022, which was held in Las Vegas earlier at the beginning of the year, AMD announced that its new Zen 4 core would be coming sometime in the second half of 22.

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel confirms their proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub  —  Hack’s perpetrator and origins remain unknown.  —  We recently broke the news that Intel’s Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …

Tobias Mann / The Register:
AMD announces its 4th-gen Epyc Genoa chips, based on the Zen 4 architecture, with up to 96 cores and support for DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and Compute Express Link  —  Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim  —  AMD’s status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel’s wake has been upended.

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Intel says it will replace the Pentium and Celeron brands with Intel Processor, starting with notebooks in 2023  —  While there are more and more premium Chrome OS devices, the category very much excels at the cheaper end of the market.  When buying those Chromebooks next year …

Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AMD’s success at catching up to Intel, huge bets on custom chips, the PC slump, export restrictions to China, and more  —  WATCH NOW  —  How AMD became a chip giant and finally caught Intel  —  Advanced Micro Devices made history this year …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close  —  New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.  —  Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs are amazing performers.